tobacco HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. 231 



2. REPTANS CREEPING. 



Chrysanthemum tnfoliafum scandens, fiore lulco, semine longo, ro~ 

 strato bidente. Sloane, v. 1, p. 26!, t. 154, f. 2, 3. 



Leaves serrate ovate, upper ones ternate ; stem creeping. 



Root small fibrous; stem climbing, weak, five feet high, branching leafy ; leaves 

 pedicelled, always three together, serrated, smooth, green, thin, the middle one the 

 largest ; peduncles from the axils of the top leaves, terminating, erect, round, striated, 

 'hairy, single flowered ; there are sometimes two or three lanceolate entire bractes at 

 tiie base of the peduncles ; the flowers are yellow, crowded close together. It grows, 

 a ammonly in Jamaica. 



Tiger's Foot Sec Bindweeds and \xmxa Creeper, 



TOBACCO. NICOTIANA. 



Cl. 5, cr. l. Tehtandriamondgyma. Nat. or. Luridae. 



The English name is derived from the island Tobago, the generic name, from Jenri 

 ISiicot, of France, who first sent its seeds there. 



Gen. char. Calyx a one-leafed ovate perianth, half live-cleft, permanent ; corolla 

 one-petaled, funnel form ; tube longer than the calyx ; bor ler somewhat spread- 

 ing, half five-cleft, in five folds ; stamens five awl shaped filaments, almost the 

 length of the corolla, ascending; anthers oblong : the pistil has an ovate germ, a 

 filiform stvle, the length of the corolla, and a capitate emargiriate stigma : peri- 

 carp a subovate capsule, marked with a line on each side, two-valved, opening at 

 top; receptacles half ovate, dotted, fastened to the partition ; seeds numerous, 

 kidney-form, wrinkled. 



TAB XUM. TOBACCO. 



'Nicotiana major latifolia, Sloane, v l-,'-p."146. Folils amplis, 6b- 

 t->no-ovutis, /lot ibus comosis. Browne, p. 167. 



Leaves lanceolate ovate, sessile, decurrent, flowers acute'. 



"Root large and long; stem rising from six to nine fet-t, upright, round, hairy, 

 clammy, frequently an inch in diameter, branching towards the too : the leaves nu- 

 merous, large, pointed, entire, alternate, veined, viscid, pale green, large, (some- 

 times twenty inches long), decreasing in size towards the ton where rhey are not half 

 the size of the lower ones ; thev are much corrugated on the surface when at maturity, 

 but smoother when young : the bractes are long and linear The stem and branches 

 -are terminated by loose clusters of flowers in panicles, of a whitish red colour, the edges 

 when full blown inclining to purple : they are succeded by the capsule and numerous 

 small ovate, sub-renifonn seeds, m a large receptacle, they have raised lines and 

 nerves, which are beautifully netted, of a vellowi*h bay colour. These seeds are ex- 

 tremely small, and it has been calculated that each capsule contains one thousand, and 

 vthe whole produ< e of a single plant three hundred and fifty thousand. 



Tobacco was first discovered in America by the Spaniards, about the year 1560, and 



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