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gescens. Corolla campanulato-tubulosa, imo contracta, medio 

 inflata, tubo carnosulocalycis longitudine, limbo brevi 5-partitOj 

 lobis rotundatis^ reflexis^ tenuioribus, uno majusculo in ala- 

 bastro interiore^ sestivatione omnlno imbricativa. Stamina 

 5^ sequalia^ inclusa, erecta ; filamenta teretia^ basi dilatata, imo 

 tubi inserta, in alabastro pubescentia^ demum glabra ; antheree 

 oblongse, imo cordatse^ sinu apicifixse, 2-loculares, loculis 

 parallele connatis^ intus longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Ova- 

 rium conicum, imo disco magno carnoso plurisulcato circum- 

 datum, 2-loculare, placentis valde incrassatis^ pluvi-ovulatis^ 

 dissepimento utrinque adnatis. Stylus teres^ longitudine sta- 

 minum. Stigma clavato-bilobum^ subcompressum. Capsula 

 ovata^ subcoriacea, fragilis^ 2-locularisj calyce reticulato 10-cos- 

 tato recondita, apice horizontalitcr ruptilis^ operculo deciduo^ 

 subplano^ sub-4-lobo^ crasso-coriaceo. Semina plurima^ reni- 

 formia, compressa^ testa leviter punctulata. Embryo intra 

 albumen carnosum hamato-arcuatus, teres^ radicula paulo cur- 

 vata, angulo basali spectante^ cotxjledonibus semiteretibus un- 

 catis sequilonga. — Herba Nepalensis^ radice perennante, folia 

 oblongay geminataj altera minori, petiolata; flores solitarii, 

 axillaresj nutantes. 



1. Anisodus luridus^ Link^ Icon. Select. PL Ber. 77; Nees. Linn. 



Trans, xvii. 72. 



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tab, 35. Whitley a stramonifolia^ Sweet, Brit, FL Gard. ii. 



tab- 125, 



Wall 



FLInd, ii. 242; — herba elata^ dichotome ramosa; foliis oblongis, 

 utrinque acutis^ basi subinsequalibus^ supra glabris, subtus 

 flavidis^ floccoso-tomentosis, petiolo crassiusculo; florenutante^ 

 pedunculo pubescente, petioli longitudine^ calycis tubo 10-an- 

 gulato, angulis costatis, pilis articulatis pubescentibus ; corolla 

 viridi-lutea, demum lurido-purpurascente. — Nepal^ v. s. in 

 herb. Wall., in herb. Hook., et v. v. in hart. Kew, cult. 



This plant is cultivated in the Kew Gardens^ where it assumes 

 a shrubby appearance, about 5 or 6 feet high, with large and 

 copious foliage : its stems are annual, appearing each spring from 

 its large perennial root. The leaves are about 7 inches long 

 and 3-^^ inches broad, on a fleshy channeled petiole of about 

 1 inch in length, the geminate leaf being about half that size. 

 The peduncle also, 1 inch long, springs from the interval between 

 the two petioles. The calyx is somewhat fleshy in texture, sub- 

 angular, with ten prominent pubescent nervures, and with inter- 

 mediate reticulations; it is campanular below, broadly tubular 

 and somewhat cylindrical above, about 1 inch in length and 

 nearly an inch in diameter, being surmounted by five broad 

 triangular teeth of unequal size, and from I to 4 hnes in length. 



