fruit is covered with tubercles terminating in fhort foft fpines. 

 The greater part of the calyx falls with the flower, but the 

 bale remains and grows with the capfule, forming a circular 

 calv x irregularly fcolloped at the edge and reflected. 



Our plant was laid to be raifed from feeds fent from Surinam, 

 and we think it doubtful whether it be the fame fpecies as the 

 Ealt-Indian plant, which grows to a much larger fize and is not 

 defcribed as being fo pubefcent : at the fame time it corre- 

 fponds fo well with the fpecific character of Linn.eus, that 

 we can but conclude it is the fame as what he intended in his 

 Species Plantarum for Datura Metel ; nor do we think it 

 differs from the Stramonia of Dodonaus and the older 

 authors. In the Hortus Cliffortianus, Linn a us confidered all 

 thole with nodding fruit as varieties of the fame fpecies, and 

 fome Boranifis flill incline to the fame opinion. 



We were favoured with the plant from which our drawing 

 was taken, by Mr. Salisbury, proprietor of the botanic 

 garden in Sloane Street, under the name of Datura innoxia 

 of Miller : and it |s not unlikely but it may be the fame as the 

 one defcribed by him, which he raifed from feeds received from 

 Vera Cruz, though he fays the fruit is oval, and covered with 

 long, foft, innocuous fpines. It is not improbable, however, 

 that there may be fome variety in the form of the fruit and in 

 the length of the fpines. 



The extraordinary narcotic and inebriating effects of thefe 

 plants has been fully defcribed by the early writers on Eaft- 

 Indian plants ; but we have not been able to trace in any of 

 them the practice of fmoking the root in the afthma, not very 

 long fince introduced to this country from Madras. The firft 

 mention we find of this practice h in Loureiro's Flora 

 Cochin Chinenfis : this aurhor afTerts, that the bruifed root of 

 the Datura (he confiders all the (pedes of Linn it us as 

 mere varieties, except arhovca) fmoked through a tobacco pipe, 

 ipcedily relieves violent paroxyfms of the afthma. 



The roots of this fpecics are large, and confequently much 

 fitter for the purpofe of fmoking than thofe of Datura p a ' 

 momum ; but whether thefe are fuperior in efficacy to the 

 other parts of the plant, is at prefent undecided. 



May be treated as other tender annuals, raifed on a hot-bed 

 in the fpring and planted in the open ground the latter-end 

 of May, where it will thrive and blofTom very well ; but will 

 Jf«ot ripen its fruit, except the weather prove very favourable. 



