178 NOTES ON BELOOCHISTAN PLANTS. 
SOLANACEÆ. 
31. Hyoscyamus insanus, J. E.S.; pilis patentibus apice furcato-stel- 
latis viscoso-tomentosus, foliis subrhomboideis crassis succidis grosse 
sinuato-dentatis-inferioribus amplis, petiolo bi-tri-pollicari, spicis plu- 
rifloris, bracteis inferioribus foliaceis superioribus integris, peduneu- 
lis variæ longitudinis, calyce obconico demum campanulato prominente 
reticulato dentibus triangularibus vel obtusiusculis, corollæ calyce 
duplo longioris limbi segmentis obtusis duobus minoribus, stylo et 
staminibus infra pilosis exsertis inclinatis, ovario piloso. 
Has. Growing from chinks of rocks or in soft soil in rocky ground 
throughout Beloochistan. No. 623. 
This is known by the name of Kohee Bhung, or Mountain Hemp. It 
is said to be smoked in small quantities by debauched Fakeers, and to 
be used by evil-disposed persons to injure those with whom they are 
at enmity. It is described as causing dryness and constriction of the 
throat, and furious delirium, and as it is known to every native, it pro- 
bably may be sometimes used, though I never could hear of one who 
had smoked it either by design or accident. It seems to approach sery 
nearly to Hyosc. muticus and Dature, nor can I suggest certain dis- 
tinctive marks; I add a fuller description fof those who may have the 
opportunity of seeing living plants of these two species. Bae 
Root in loose ground creeping extensively, and emitting stems which . 
are procumbent at the base and cover a large extent of surface. 
Branches and branchlets clothed with soft, clammy, woolly hairs, which 
are branched or stellate at the tip. ~ Leaves very thick and brittle, rhom- 
boid in outline, with coarse teeth and wide intermediate sinuses, the 
lower ones sometimes 9 inches by 6, with a petiole 3 inches long. 
Spikes 10-30-flowered, when young scorpoidal, when old much elon- 
gated (6-12 inches), with flowers turned to one side, the lower flowers 
having a stalk as long as the calyx, the upper stalk not exceeding à 
line. Lower floral bracts leaf-like, upper ones linear and half as long 
as the calyx. — Calyz with sharp triangular teeth, or obscurely bluntly 
and irregularly lobed. Corolla as long again as the calyx, with 4 
greenish-white tube, gradually enlarging into a capacious throat; limb 
generally oblique, with a fissure between the two smaller segments, pale 
pink with purple veins and dark purple spots, looking like the corolla 
of some Pelargonium. Stamens free from the upper half of the corolla, 
with hairs on the lower (or attached) part and some way up the free 
