194 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANV. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 1G5- 



1. Linana ramosissima, flowering branch, natural 7. 8. Ovary cut transrersely and longitudinally, 



size- 9. Mature capsule. 



2- Detached flower. 10, Capsule dehiscing* 



3. Detached corolla. 11. A mature seed. 



4. Corolla split open, stamens in situ. 12, Cut lengthwise, embryo in situ. 



5. Detached stamens, back and side views. 13. Cut across. 



& Calyx and ovary. 



14. Detached embryo. All more or less magnified. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 165-b. 



1. Verbasceee. Vcrhascxim virgatum (Wither.), and 5. Buddleieae. Buddeia discolor. (Roth.) 



Celsia Coromanddxna. (Vahl.) 6. Buchnereae. Ramphicarpa longiflora (Benth.) and 



2. Antinhineae. Anlirrhinum glaucum. {J. 'E, Slocks,)^ Striga orohanchoides. (Benth.) 



3. Gratioleae. Stemodia viscosa. (Roxb.) and PcpZi- 7. Gerardieae. Centranihera hispida (R. Br.) and Mi- 

 dium htimifusum, (Delile.) ^ crargeria fVightiL (Benth.) 



4* Sibthorpieae. Glossostigma spalliulatunu (Am.) 8. Euphrasieae. Pedicularts zeylanica. (Benth.) 



CXV.— SOLANACE^. 



This large and interesting order was first defined by Jussleu, Subsequently Mr. Brown 

 revised and amended the ordinal character, suggesting that it might with propriety be divided 

 by the removal of certain genera which departed in some particulars from those he considered 

 genuine members, and associated under the designation of Solance verco. 



This suggestion has not been followed by succeeding writers ; hence the order is retained 

 nearly In its original form, but greatly augmented. In character and also in habit it agrees in 

 many points with ScrophulariacecE, and, through some of its genera, so closely, that the two orders 

 almost interblend ; but still it must be admitted that they are really distinct, and almost always 

 at once distmguishable by the regular pentandrous plicate corollas of Solanacece/m comparison 



the embryo and seed. The ovary and fruit are much the same in both, that is, a 2-celIed 

 o?ary with more or less perfectly axile placentas, and a capsular or baccate fruit; the latter form, 

 however, being more frejiuent in the former order. Then, as regards their properties, they 



imaocuous 



ept 



most powerful and valuable narcotics to the Physician, the far-famed Potatoe, as an esculent, 

 to aU classes of society, and the soothing Tobacco to the lover of quiet enjoyment. Generally 

 speaking the products of vegetation of this order of plants are in a high degree narcotic and 

 dangerous, a character from which the potatoe is not altogether exonerated though vastly 

 weakened, somewhat on the same principle that blanched lettuce and cellery are deprived of 

 their native poisonous qualities ; the potatoe tuber being in truth a blanched under ground stem, 

 and thereby deprived of the acrid qualities of the family, still found however in the stems and 

 fruit, in which, under the action of solar light, they are to a considerable extent developed. 



Viewed simply in its botanical relations, this order does not occupy a prominent place either 

 as regards the number of its genera or species. Lindley enumerates 60 genera as belonging to 

 this family, 9 only of which are found m India. Of these, two are iuftly esteemed dSubtfol 



excluded from the order, reducing 

 may perhaps be esteemed doubtful. 



Hy 



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pas.ay';^g:rJrntE Ipiie'" ' '" ''^ ^"" ' '^'=^'^^' ^ "°^^ ^'^ ^^ Stocks fro. which 1 quote the following 



f 2 ' DfffeA^SutreSilHi?de''S^ rT "^ ^'^Th " ^- P-ViUonaceum, Burm. PI. Ind. Pg. 131, plate 39, 

 •calis i^ pa;lil3:f fp W been identified, an^d Mr.'Jentham 



and wa/at^uck by the'rather good ifke^ness of ^V plant ' '°^ °^ '^' """"" ' ""'" '""'" "'' ""'■™'"" 



Griffith's Afghan Journal, page 331, which, when corre 



The plant i8 figured No. 1459, of my Icones R. W. ^ ^"^* development of the posticous sepal. 



at the end of the genus. 1 only lately procuried Burmann 

 V rnn„ ;o -4„A,..: ^ .,■'. .yc.^j Vide also 



' — J, ""•" ■."uo, auu eviueniiy reiers lo thi ' * " '" 



very curious plant (Antirrhinoid) wte brought : 



