472 NICOTIANA TABACUM. 
. The genus Nicotiana has a funnel-shaped co- 
olla, with iis border somewhat plaited. Stamens — 
inclined ; stigma emarginate. Capsule two-celled, 
iwo or four-valved. The species Tabacum, re- 
presented in our plate, has its leaves ovate-lanceo- 
late, sessile, decurrent ; flowers panicled, acute. 
Class Pentandria, order Monogynia. Natural 
orders Lurid, Linn. Solanacee, Juss. 
The common Tobacco has a long fibrous root; 
a stalk five or six feet high, erect, round, hairy, 
and yiscid, branching at top. Leaves sessile, very 
large, ovate or lanceolate, acuminate, viscid, of a 
pale green colour. Bractes linear, acute. Flow- 
ers forming a panicle on the ends of the stem and 
branches. Calyx swelling, hairy, glutinous, half 
as long as the corolla, ending in five acute seg- 
ments, Corolla funnel-shaped, swelling toward 
the top, the border expanding, with five acute 
lobes ; the tube of a greenish white, the border 
red. Filaments inclined to one side, with oblon g 
anthers. Germ ovate, style long and slender, 
stigma cloven. Capsule ovate, invested with the 
calyx, two-celled, two-valved, but opening cross- 
wise at top; partition contrary to the valves. 
Seeds very numerous, small, somewhat reniform, 
attached to a fleshy receptacle. 
