BY THE REV. J. E. TENISON-WOODS, F.G.S., <kc. 779' 



178. Datura alba, Nees. Talamponai, Visayan ; Kuchubun*^- 

 jiuti, Malay. Very common throughout the East, with large white 

 flowers. It extends to China and Japan, where it is called 

 Chosen-asago. Narcotic virtues are attributed to this plant, and 

 in more than one country it is used to cause intoxication or 

 stupefaction. 



179. NicOTiANA TABACUM, L. Tembakau, Malay ; Yen, Chinese. 

 Though the Asiatic people are great lovers of tobacco, none at 

 all approach to the natives of the Philippines in this respect. Men 

 and women smoke unceasingly, and even children begin the habit 

 when quite infants. The Philippine natives surpass all other 

 Asiatics in the cultivation and preparation of the plant. Though 

 the American origin of this plant has been disputed, it is proved 

 almost beyond question. Out of fifty species of the genus Nicotiana 

 two only are foreign to America — one a native of Australia, and. 

 the other of New Caledonia. 



SCROPHULARIACE^. 



180. ToRENiA cARDiocEPHALA, Benth. Small Mimulus-like 

 shrubs found in shady or damp places with purple, bluish or 

 yellow blossoms. They are elegant wild flowers. 



181. TORENIA EDENTULA, Grifi". 



182. Vandellia CRUSTACEA, Benth. A small tropical weed 

 widely diffused and extending to Australia ; it is a much-bi^anched 

 rambling annual with minute purple flowers. It is found also in 

 Africa and America. 



183. ScoPARiA DULCis, L. Another weedy annual with the 

 same wide diffusion. It is a larger plant, the leaves usually in 

 whorls of three, and the flowers white. 



OROBANCHACE^. 



184. ^GINETIA INDICA, Roxb. The small parasitic plants 

 which compose this order are not well represented in the tropics.. 



