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Plants of this order have similar properties to those of the pre- 

 ceding one. Prince-wood is a handsome light brown wood, not to 

 be confounded with tonic Prince-wood bark, the product of Exos- 

 temma Caribaeum. Yid. order L. 



Order LXIX. SOLANACEAE. 



1. Nicotiana Tabacum, L. 



Tobacco. Introduced, originally from S. America. 



2. Petunia, sp. ? 



Cultivated in gardens. S. America. 



3. Datura Stramonium, L. 



White Datura, Prickle-Bur, Thorn-Apple. Cosmopolitan, in 

 warm countries. 



4. Datura Tatula, L. 

 Violet Datura. 



5. Brugmansia suaveolens, G-. Don. 



Sweet-smelling Datura. Naturalized from S. America. 



6. Lycopersicum Humboldtii, Dun. 



Small oval Tomato, originally from Peru. 



7. L. esculentum, Mull. 

 Cultivated Tomato. 



8. Capsicum frutescens, L. 



Cayenne Pepper, Bird Pepper ; from South America. 



9. C. annuum, L. 

 Guinea Pepper, Chilies. 



10. Capsicum, sp.T 



Other kinds of peppers are grown. 



11. Solanum nodiflorum, Jacq. 



Night shade, Branched Calalu. West Indies. Used by the Myal 

 men or Obia men of the West Indies as a narcotic, to produce a pro- 

 found sleep of a certain duration. Vid. Edwards, 1. c, Vol. 2, p. 297. 



12. S. Bahamense, L. (Swains.) 



Canker Berry. Indigenous and in Jamaica and Mexico. 



13. S. Melongena. L. 



Egg-plant, Mad-Apple. Cultivated ; from tropical Asia. 



14. S. tuberosum, L. 

 Irish Potato. 



