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( 2785) 
NICOTIANA NOCTIFLORA. NIGHT-FLOWER- 
ING Topacco. 
Class and. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. Monoeynia. 
| s Nat. Ord.—Soranzz. ) 
Generic Character. U 
Cal. tubulosus, 5-fidus. Cor. infundibuliformis vel hy- 
pocrateriformis limbo plicato. Capsula apice 4-dentata, 
placentis ad dissepimentum transversis. Spreng. 
Specific Character. 
Nicotiana noctiflora ; glanduloso-viscosa, foliis lanceolatis 
undulatis mferioribus oblongis, floribus paniculatis 
hypocrateriformibus, limbi laciniis obtusissimis dia- 
metro tubo subbrevioribus. 
Descr. Apparently an annual, two feet or more in— 
height, with an erect, rounded, branching, leafy stem, 
clothed, as is all the external part of the pats with ex- 
ceedingly viscid, very numerous, short, glandular hairs, 
cs be ak a very Meelis and disagreeable smell, parti- 
cularly when touched. Leaves, the lower ones oblong 
and tapering into a footstalk, the rest narrow, lanceolate, 
sessile, remarkably waved at the margin, all of them acute. 
Panicle of several moderately-sized flowers, which expand 
in the evening and during the night, when they are very 
sweet scented; and they are, when in perfection, drooping. 
Calyx tubular, cut into five, linear-lanceolate, rather short, 
and nearly erect teeth, green, having a white line alter-_ 
nating with the teeth. Tube of the Corolla, thrice the 
length of the calyx, a little enlarged upwards, greenish, 
with five small depressions just above the calyx, 2 al 
: i 3 e. i stamens 
