﻿Datura.] solanace^ (Wright). 119 



PI ed. 2, 258 ; Benil. & Trim. Med. Pi. t. 192; Hook. f. Fl Brit 

 Ind. iv. 242. 



Coast Region : Cape Div. ; near Cape Town, Thunherg ! 

 Centkal Reuion : Colesberg Div. ; near the Orange River, Knohel! 

 Kalahari Region : Transvaal ; near Lydenburg and Pretoria, Wilmt 1010 ' 

 near Pretoria, Kirk, 31! 



Thronghout the world, except in the colder and arctic regions, very common in 

 South Europe ; probably introduced into South Africa. 



VJI. NICOTIANA, Linn. 



Calyx ovoid or tubular-campanulate, 5-fid. Corolla funnel- or 

 salver-shaped ; tube long, cylindrical or slightly ventricose ; limb 

 equal or oblique; lobes 5, induplicate, patent. Stamens 5, inserted 

 below the middle of the corolla-tube, included or exserted, more or 

 less unequal ; filaments filiform ; anthers ovate or oblong, deeply 

 2-lobed ; cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2- (rarely 

 4-00-) celled ; style filiform ; stigma dilated, shortly and widely 

 2-lobed; ovules numerous. Capsule 2- (rarely 4-) celled, dehiscing 

 to the middle or lower by 2-tid valves. Seeds numerous, small, 

 scarcely compressed, granular ; embryo straight or more or less 

 curved ; cotyledons semiterete. ■ 



Herbs or subshrubs, rarely subarborescent, usually with glutinous hairs ; leaves 

 eimple, entire or sinuate; flowers white, yellow, greenish or pink, in terminnl 

 panicles or long unilateral bracteate or ebracteate racemes, rarely solitary and 

 axillary. 



DisTEiB. Species about 40, in extra-tropical North and South America, 

 Australia and the Pacific Islands. 



Viscid ; corolla pink ; lobes acute (I) Tabacum, 



Glabrous; corolla green or yellow ; lobesrounded .. (2) glaaca. 



1. N. Tabacum (Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, 180) ; a robust annual, up to 

 6 ft. high ; stem erect, viscid ; leaves ovate-lanceolate or ovate, the 

 lower up to 2 It. long and shortly petioled, the upper much smaller, 

 sessile and more or less amplexicaul, entire, acute,, sometimes undu- 

 late, viscid on loth surfaces; panicle terminal; calyx ovoid, viscid 

 outside, divided nearly halfway down ; lobes 5, narrowly lanceolate ; 

 corolla obconical, pink, about 1} in. long, viscid outside ; lol)es short, 

 broadly triangular, acute ; stamens inserted near the base of the 

 corolla, usually included ; ovary conical ; style about as long as the 

 stamens ; capsule about 9 lin. long. iJunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 

 557 ; Bentl ^ Trim. Med. PL t.Vdl ] Comes, Monogr. Nicot. 7. 



Vae. a, fruticosa (Hook. f. in Bor. Mag. t. 6207) ; stem shrubby at the base; 

 lowest leaves ovate, upper narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, almost auricled at the 

 base. Comes, Monogr. Nicot. 8, tt. 1 and 3. N. fruticosa, Harv. Gen. 8. Afr. 

 PI. ed. 2, 258. 



Vak. /8, lancifolia (Comes, Monogr. Nicot. 10, tt. 1 and 4) ; a viscid pilose 

 herb ; lowest leaves ovate-lanceolate, upperniobt linear-lanceolate, long acunu- 



