APPENDIX. 15 



nervures beneatli are prominent and green, r The inflorescence 

 is panicular, not corymbose j the pedicel, as well as its small 

 sessile ovate pointed bract, and the calyx, being covered with 

 dense, short, patent, glandular hairs : the corolla, of a pale pur- 

 plish colour, is slightly pubescent externally ; its sestivation is 

 distinctly imbricate, with its external lobe on the contrary side 

 to the more oblique portion, to which the stamens and style are 

 inclined ; the ovarium exhibits several long simple hairs upon its 



surface • 



5. Physochldsna pr<Balta. Belenia prsealta, Decne. Jacq. Voy. 

 jBo^.ll4.tab.l30. Hyoscyamusprsealtus,/Fa/j3./?(^. iii. 21: 

 herba perennis, pihs brevibus rarisque viscidulis tota inspcrsa, 

 fohis e parte infra medium lanceolatis, imo deltoidcis. subiter 

 acuminatis, et in petiolum incrassatum decurrentibus, supra 

 glabris, subtus rachi crassissimo, et in venis prominentibus 

 viscidulo-pilosis ; panicula terminali, elongata, ramosa, ramis 

 longis, laxiflora, pedicellis calyce longioribus, bracteatis, cer- 

 nuis, demum elongatis, crectis ; calyce brevi, urceolato, den- 

 tibus 5 brevibus reflexis, fructifero valde aucto, et subincurvo ; 

 corolla viridi-lutescente, venis viridibus picta. — Himalaya. 



This plant appears much taller than any of the foregoing spe- 

 cies, its inflorescence much longer and more lax, the calyx grows 

 to a larger size considerably, and the corolla is of a greenish yel- 

 low, marked with dark green reticulations, as in Hyoscyamus. It 

 approaches Hyoscyamus muticus, which probably belongs rather 

 to this genus, on account of its long, panicular, terminal inflo- 

 rescence, the obtuse lobes of its calyx, and often purple flowers. 



The 



The 



of 1 an inch), and 1^ inch broad. , ^ i, 



inches long ; the corolla is more campauular than that ot the 

 typical species, the stamens being included ; the style alone is 

 exserted : the calyx in flower is 4 lines long, tubular, and 2 Imes 

 in diameter ; it subsequently grows to a length of 1 1 hues and 

 to a diameter of 4 lines. In the drawing above quoted, a section 

 is given of the seed of this species, in which there appears a 

 manifest error in the relative positions of the radicle and coty- 

 ledons in regard to the hilum : it seems very unlikely that it 

 should differ in this respect from the features descnbed m the 

 generic character, which are derived from careful observation 

 upon several other species, and which are conformable to the 



known 



SCOPOLIA. 



A single species only of this genus is recorded, and it seems 



lUyr 



