Tas. 4865. 
NICOTIANA FRAGRANS. 
Sweet-scented Tobacvo. 
Nat. Ord. SoLANACE#.—PENTANDRIA Monoeyn1a. 
Gen. Char. Calyx tubuloso-campanulatus, semiquinquefidus. Corolla infun- 
dibuliformis vel hypocraterimorpha, limbo plicato-quinquelobo, lobis per zstiva- 
tionem plicatis et conniventi-contortis, Stamina 5, corolle tubo inserta, inclusa, 
seepe subeequilonga, nonnunquam ineequalia ; anthere longitudinaliter dehiscentes, 
brevissime ovate: vel globose; pollen oblongum, longitudinaliter trisulcatum. 
Ovarium biloculare, placentis linea dorsali dissepimento adnatis, multiovulatis, 
nectario crasso annulari obsolete lobato basi circumdatum. Stylus simplex. 
Stigma capitatum, pa orme, intus glandulis 2 magnis instructum. Capsula 
calyce persistente tecta, bilocularis, apice septicido-bivalvis, vel quadri-multi- 
valvis, valvis demum bifidis, placentas discretas retinentibus. Semina plurima, 
minima, oblonga, subreniformia, rugosa. Hmbryo in axi albuminis carnosi, leviter 
arcuatus.—Herbe, interdum suffrutescentes, sepissime glutinoso-pilose, in America 
éropica copiose, partim in aliis terris (4) crescentes ; foliis alternis, integerrimis ; 
floribus ¢erminalibus, racemosis aut paniculatis, albidis, virescentibus, v. purpuras- 
centibus, pedicellis azillaribus, calyces subequantibus. De Cand. . 
Nicotiana fragrans ; subglutinosa, ubique pilis brevibus crispulis pubescente- 
sericea, foliis crassis subcarnosis inferioribus precipue radicalibus obovato- 
spathulatis, caulinis paucis lineari-spathulatis, panicula terminali ampla mul- 
tiflora, floribus in ramis subglomeratis nutantibus, calycibus inflatis laciniis 
inzequalibus, corolla (alba) tubo longissimo cylindraceo ore paululum dila- 
tato, limbo glabro 5—6-lobo lobis rotundatis patentibus dorso carinatis, sta- 
minibus 5-6, filamento unico breviore. 
A very fine species of Tobacco, discovered during Capt. Den- 
ham’s surveying voyage by Messrs. Macgillivray and Milne in 
rocks and waste places on the sea-shore in the Isle of Pines ; re- 
markable for the firm, thick, fleshy character of the foliage, and 
which becomes most beautifully satiny in the dried state, for the 
great size it attains in a state of cultivation, and for the delicious 
fragrance of the large white blossoms. It evidently belongs to 
the same section with WV. undulata, Vent. et Br. (WV. suaveolens, 
Lehm.); but cannot be the same, if Ventenat’s figure (Hort. 
Malmais. t. 10) be correct. It is a plant of easy cultivation in 
AvGusT Ist, 1855. 
