386 SOLAXACEAE. 



mid-vein; petioles slender, 1-1.5 cm. long; cymes axillary, few-several-flowered, 

 their peduncles much shorter than the petioles; pedicels 1.5-3 mm. long; 

 calyx oblong-campanulate in flower, 4 mm. long, its teeth triangular-lanceo- 

 late, 1.5 mm. long; corolla-tube greenish yellow, 9-13 mm. long, narrowly ob- 

 conic, its lobes lanceolate, acuminate, purplish, 4-5 mm. long, white-lanose 

 within; stamens inserted on the tube of the corolla just below the lobes, the 

 free part of the filament scarcely longer than the anther; berry blue-black, 

 shining, obovoid, about 12 mm. long, 5-6 mm. thick; fruiting calyx broadly 

 obeonic, loosely enclosing the narrowed base of the berry. 



Coppices, savannas and scrub-lands, Great Bahama and Abaco to Andros, Cat 

 Island and Long Island : Cuban Cays. Referred by Grisebach, Dolley. Mrs. Northrop 

 and Hitchcock to Centrum pallidum Lam.; recorded by Coker as Solarium havanense 

 Jacq. and by Schoepf as Oestrum vespertinum. BAHAMA CESTRDM. 



CESTRUM DIURNUM L., recorded by Dolley, has been cultivated on New Provi- 

 dence. 



6. DATURA L. Sp. PI. 179. 1753. 



Tall narcotic herbs, some tropical species shrubs or trees, with alternate 

 petioled leaves, and large solitary erect, short-peduncled, white purple or violet 

 flowers. Calyx elongated-tubular or prismatic, its apex 5-cleft or spathe-like, 

 in the following species circumscissile near the base which is persistent and 

 subtends the prickly capsule. Corolla funnelform, the limb plaited, 5-lobed, 

 the lobes broad, acuminate. Stamens included or little exserted ; filaments 

 filiform, very long, inserted at or below the middle of the corolla-tube. Ovary 

 2-celled, or falsely 4-celled ; style filiform ; stigma slightly 2-lobed. Capsule 

 4-valved from the top, or bursting irregularly. [The Hindoo name, dhatura.] 

 About 12 species, of wide distribution. Type species: Datura Stramonium L. 



Spines of the capsule subulate. 



Capsules erect. 1. D. Stramonium. 



Capsules nodding. 2. D. Metel. 



Spines of the capsule short, deltoid. 3. D. fastuosa. 



1. Datura Stramonium L. Sp. PI. 179. 1753. 



Datura Tatula L. Sp. PL ed. 2, 256. 1762. 



Annual, glabrous or the young parts sparingly pubescent ; stem stout, 

 3-15 dm. high. Leaves thin, ovate, acute or acuminate, mostly narrowed at 

 the base, 0.7-2 dm. long, irregularly sinuate-lobed, the lobes acute ; flowers 

 white, about 1 dm. high; calyx prismatic, less than one-half the length of the 

 corolla; capsule ovoid, erect, densely prickly, about 5 cm. high. 



Waste places, Great Bahama, Lignum Vitae Cay, Eleuthera and Acklin's Island : 

 Bermuda ; temperate and tropical America ; West Indies ; Old World. THORN-APPLE. 

 WASHWOMAN'S BUSH. 



2. Datura Metel L. Sp. PI. 179. 1753. 



Annual, finely glandular-pubescent, 1-3 m. high. Leaves broadly ovate, 

 acute, inequilateral, rounded or subcordate at the base, 1-2.5 dm. long; flow- 

 ers white, 1.5-1.8 dm. high; calyx about one-half as long as the corolla; 

 capsule globos'e or ovoid-globose, nodding, obtuse, prickly and pubescent, 2.5-4 

 cm. in diameter. 



Waste grounds, Andros and Inagua : southern United States ; West Indies ; 

 Mexico and tropical America ; Old World tropics. PRICKLY-BUR. 



3. Datura fastuosa L. Syst. ed. 10, 932. 1759. 



Annual, nearly glabrous; stem erect, branched, 1-2 m. high. Leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate to elliptic, 5-17 cm. long, acute or acuminate, undulate or 



