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SOLANACEAE. 



2. Nicotiana glauca Graham. TREE 

 TOBACCO. (Fig. 371.) A branching 

 shrub, or a tree becoming 20 tall. 

 Leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, 2 '-8' 

 long or sometimes larger, undulate, long 

 or slender-petioled; panicles long; pedi- 

 cels mostly less than 10" long; calyx 

 6" or 7" long, its lobes lanceolate or tri- 

 angular-lanceolate, shorter than the tube; 

 corolla yellow or yellowish, about 14' 

 long, the tube gradually enlarged to the 

 slightly constricted throat; the limb 

 about 5" broad, the lobes broad but 

 acutish; capsules narrowly ovoid or ob- 

 long-ovoid, 5 "-6" long. 



Occasional in waste grounds. Intro- 

 duced. Sometimes grown in gardens for 

 ornament. Flowers in summer and autumn. 

 It is native of South America and widely 

 naturalized in the southwestern United 

 States. 



Nicotiana acuminata (Graham) Hook., SHARP-LEAVED TOBACCO, South 

 American, grown at Mt. Langton about 1875, has lanceolate acuminate undu- 

 late-margined leaves, the few flowers about 3' long in terminal panicles. 

 [Petunia acuminata Graham.] 



Lycium halimifolium Mill., MATRIMONY VINE, European, a woody 

 climber, with spiny branches, glabrous entire oblong to spatulate acute 

 leaves l'-2' long, small axillary purplish flowers turning yellowish, with 

 funnelform corollas and slightly exserted stamens, as long as the style, fol- 

 lowed by orange-colored oval berries, is recorded by Lefroy as found on 

 David's Island, prior to 1879. [L. vulgare Dunal.] 



Lycium chinense Mill., Asiatic, a shrub with spatulate obtuse leaves, simi- 

 lar flowers to those of the Matrimony Vine, with the style longer than the 

 stamens, is grown in a few gardens. 



Oestrum Parqui L'Her., South American, was established at Mt. Langton 

 in 1874, and flowered profusely, but H. B. Small records its subsequent dis- 

 appearance. It is a glabrous shrub with lanceolate petioled entire acuminate 

 leaves about 3' long, the panicled flowers greenish yellow, the narrow corolla 

 with a short spreading limb, very fragrant at night. 



Oestrum nocturnum L., NIGHT-BLOOMING OESTRUM, West Indian, occa- 

 sionally planted for ornament, is a glabrous shrub, 12 high or less, with ovate- 

 lanceolate to oblong, petioled acuminate leaves 3'-5' long, and flowers in axil- 

 lary panicles ; the cup-shaped calyx is about \\" long, the yellow narrowly 

 tubular corolla with a short limb is about 1' long, the nearly white, globose 

 berries about 5" in diameter. 



Brunfelsia americana L., BRUNFELSIA, LADY-OP-THE-NIGHT, West In- 

 dian, a shrub 4-7 high, with elliptic to obovate short-petioled leaves 2'-4' 

 long, long, usually solitary and terminal yellowish fragrant flowers, the nar- 

 row corolla^tube about 24' long, the spreading 5-lobed corolla-limb nearly J' 

 wide, the fruit a yellow berry 8"-10" in diameter, is occasionally grown for 

 ornament and interest. 



