﻿120 sOLANACEiE (Wright). [Nicotiana. 



nate. N. lancifolia, Willd. ex Lehm. Gen. Nicot. Hist. 26; Dunal in DC. Prod. 

 xiii. i. 558. N. fruticosa, var. angustifolia, Bunal I.e. 559. 



South Afkica : without locality ; var. a, ex Comes, var. )3, ex D'xnal. 



Kalahaki Region : Orange River Colouy ; without precise locality, Coojper, 

 3111! 



2. N. glauca (E. Graliam in EdinL. N. Phil. Journ. 1828, 175) ; 

 a small tree ; branches ascending, glaucous ; leaves ovate or oblong, 

 acute or acuminate, more or less cuneate at the base, 3 in. long, l^in. 

 wide, quite glabrous ; petiole 1^ in. long ; bracts subulate, small, 

 fugacious ; panicle terminal ; calyx tubular, 5 lin. long ; lobes 

 ovate, acuminate, short, ciliate ; corolla tubular, constricted near the 

 top, li in. long, green changing to yellow, densely pubescent out- 

 side"; lobes short, rounded ; stamens inserted a short distance up the 

 corolla-tube ; filaments glabrous ; ovary conical ; style as long as the 

 stamens, minutely 2-lobed. JBot. Mag. t. 2837 ; Dunal in DC. 

 Prod. xiii. i. 562 ; Comes, Monogr. Nicot. 26. N. arborea, Dietr. ex 

 Comes, I.e. 



South Aprica : without locality, Rogers ! 



Coast Region: Cape Div. ; Rouudliouse, near Cape Town, TFiJms, 3460! 

 Simons Bay, towards Table Mountain, Milne, 105 ! 



Eastebn Region : Natal; Tugela River, cultivated specimen ! 



Also in Tropical Africa and South America from Bolivia and Paraguay south- 

 wards. Perhaps introduced into South Africa. 



Vni. RETZIA, Thunb. 



Calyx narrow ; lobes 5, acute, unequal. Corolla : tube elongate, 

 symmetrical ; lobes 5 (rarely 6-7), short, induplicate-yalvate. 

 Stamens as many as and shorter than the corolla-lobes, inserted at 

 the top of the corolla-tube, equal ; filaments short, filiform ; anthers 

 shortly sagittate, cells nearly parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Dink 

 very small. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform ; stigma scarcely dilated, 

 shortly 2-lobed; ovules 2-3 in each cell, obovoid, narrowed into a 

 short funicle. Capsule oblong, acuminate, septicidally 2-valved ; 

 valves 2-fid. Seeds few or solitary, oblong; testa rather thick, 

 transversely rugulose or longitudinally sulcate; embryo straight; 

 albumen fleshy. 



DiSTBiB. Endemic, monotypic. 



1. R. capensis (Thunb. in Acta Lund. i. 55, t. 1, fig. 2) ; an erect, 

 rigid, branched shrub, about 4 ft. high; young branches densely 

 villous ; leaves verticillate, sessile, linear-lapceolate, obtuse, entire, 

 glabrous, imbricate, 1^ in. long, 2-4 lin. wide ; flowers several at 

 the end of the stem, sessile, erect ; bracts lanceolate from a broad 

 concave base, keeled outside, acuminate, hirsute, 2 in. long, the 

 inner smaller ; corolla 1 in. long, 3 lin. in diam. Nov. Gen. PL i. 4 ; 

 Prodr. 34; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 167; Linn. f. Suppl. 18, 138; 



