datura.] Lxxxii. solane^e. 



469 



Queensland. Gilbert river, F. Mueller; Comet river, Leichhardt ; Suttor river, 

 Douay ; Rockingham Bay, O'Shanesij ; Armadillo, 5a;-to^. 



The very common East Indian B, alha, Nees, or B, MeteU I^oxb., has the flowers fully 

 twice as large as B. Leichhardtii, and the leaves more entire. The Australian plant has 

 more the aspect of the common B. Stramonium or of B.feror, with the small flowers of tlie 

 latter, but differs from both in the reflesed capsule. 



^. Tatitla, Linn. Sp. PL 256 ; Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 83, regarded by Dunal and niost 

 authors as a variety of D. S{ramo7iium with blue flowers, but whose claims to be retained as 

 8 species have been recently again brought forward by Naudin's hybridizing expcnments, has 

 appeared in Australia as an introduced w^eed. 



7. WICOTIANA, Linn. 



Calyx campanulate, 5-lobecl, persistent. Corolla witli a cyliiulrical tube, 

 the limb more or less spreading, o-lobed, indupticate or folded in the bud. 

 Stamens 5, included in tbe tube, often unequal j antbers 2-celled, opeinng 

 longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled ; ftigma broadly 2-lobed. Fruit a capsule 

 opening in 2 bifid valves parallel to the dissepiment which remains attached 

 to tk axis. Seeds numerous. Embryo slightly curved, in a fleshy albunien. 

 -Herbs usually erect and coarse. Leaves alternate, entire. Flowers white 

 !?reenisli -yellow or dull-red, in terminal racemes often branching mto very 

 loose panicle-like cymes. 



^The genus is entirely American, witli the exception of the single Australian species^ 

 •^ich, however, is scarcely to be distinguishcJ from a S. American one, and "f "-^^ "^^^1^ 

 ff to it from' the S. Pacific inlands. ^Some species, long enltu.ted -rd" ^h "JJ 

 l^hacco, have become almost naturalized in the warmer regions of the Old ^J <^^W' ''"^J^ 

 lave as yet seen no Australian specimens. F. MueUer's coUechon f "^mn^' ''^^ff!"' X 

 feape from gardens, a specimen of N. gJauca, Grab, in Bot Mag. t-.f"^^',^*^ ^ J^'j^^; 

 I'rons glaucous species, with rather slender tubular flowers of a greenish yellow, with a very 

 "uallliinb. 



1. N. suaveolens, Lelm. Hid. Nkot. 43. An erect annual or biennial 

 fl to 2 ft., more or less pubescent or villous and usually vjscid. Lo«e 

 I'^ves ou long petioles, ovate or spathulate, the upper ones usually ^ano^ ""<^ 

 sessile although contracted at tbe base, but exceedingly variable ^^m.^^^e. 

 ^1 cordate aifd the upper small ones clasping the stem, ^'^™.f ™f ^ ''" X^^ 

 ^th very few on the stem, tbe petiole in some specimens dilakd at tl^ base 

 aiiJ stem-claspincr or sbortly deturrent. Flowers sweet-scented, ^spec all> a 

 ;ight, of a pSre^bite or Veemsb outside, in loose terinina raceme^ often 

 branching into irregular pmiicles, and exceedmgly variable "' ^^^ ""^^^ J 

 ^r long p^edicels. Bracts usually small and linear or none .^^'^der the upper 



PeJiceK^but sometimes all larger and leafy. Calyx -jp-jsj^^^^^'i-dh 

 hues long, the lobes usually very narrow and as long as the tub Coio a 

 tibe slender or broad, varying from \ in. to 3 m. m ^^^^S't b,««ually sligl t^^ 

 f^ollea under the threat ;lind. spreading flat from i to \^l- ^^^^f^ > ^^^ 

 I'^'^es short and broad, eraarginate obtuse or almost acute, he 2 ^mi^'l 

 ''dually rather smaller than the others. Filaments adna e bigh up ; anther 

 <;^ate or oblong. 4 usually at the throat of tbe corolla the fit h mu b o^ei 

 5°^^n. Capsule ovate, -slightly acuminate, rather shorter than tl^e cal.vx-lobe^. 

 S«^d^ veiy small and nume'rous.-l)un. in DO. Prod xm. PJ^* ,• ^^^'/i 

 ""i^'^lota, Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 10 ; Bot. Mag. t. 673 ; R. B • If^^^^ 

 ^- Australasia, E. Br. in Tuck. Cong. App. 473, Misc. Y^ orks, ed. Benn. i. 



