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limb of the corolla is 10-toothed and the capsules nodding. Fl. B. I. v. 4, 

 p. 243 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 173 ; Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 39. 



Datura arhorea, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 179. A large shrub with 

 pure white flowers 7 or 8 inches long and about 4 inches wide at the 

 mouth. It is easily propagated and thrives well at about 4000 ft. 

 altitude. It is abundant at Mahableshwar, where it has been planted 

 along many of the new roads, and its large trumpet-like flowers are 

 conspicuous objects. It is a native of Peru. Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 12 (1898) p. 173 & Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 401. Brwjmansia 

 Candida, Pers. Syn. v. 1, p. 216 ; Grab. Cat. p. 141 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 iSuppl. p. 63. 



6. HYOSCYAMUS, Linn. 



Erect coarse herbs. Leaves sinuate-dentate or pinnatifid, rarely quite 

 entire. Elowers usually unilateral, sessile or pedicellate, the lower 

 axillary, solitary, the upper arranged in a spike or scorpioid raceme ; 

 upper floral leaves bract-like. Calyx tubular-cam pan ulate or urceolate, 

 shortly 5-fid, enlarged in fruit, including the capsule, strongly ribbed. 

 Corolla infundibuliform ; limb oblique, 5-fid ; lobes more or less un- 

 equal, imbx'icate in bud. Stamens attached about the middle of the 

 corolla-tube, usually exserted ; anthers dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 

 2-celled ; ovules numerous ; style filiform ; stigma subcapitate. Cap- 

 sule perfectly or almost perfectly 2-celled, circumscissile above the 

 middle. Seeds more or less compressed, usually scrobiculate ; embryo 

 peripheric. — Distrib. Mediterranean region, Canary Islands and thence 

 to Central Asia ; species 8 or 9. 



1. Hyoscyamus muticus, Linn. Mant. (1767) p. 45. Herbaceous, 

 1-3 ft. high ; root creeping extensively (Stocls) ; stem branched, erect, 

 firm, fistuiose, leafy, obsoletely angular ; branches clothed with soft 

 clammy woolly hairs. Cauline leaves scattered, 4-8 by 2-5 in., the 

 lower the largest, ovate-oblong or subrhomboid, acute, thick, entire or 

 coarsely sinuate-dentate, pubescent or woolly, base acute ; petioles ^-3 in. 

 long, very broad. Elowers unilateral in 10-30-flowered spicate racemes, 

 scorpioid when young, much elongate (6-12 in.) in age ; pedicels of the 

 lower flowers sometimes nearly as long as the calyx, those of the upper- 

 most flowers scarcely -^^ in. long. Calyx strongly nerved, urceolate, 

 i-1 in. long in flower, enlarged in fruit; teeth triangular-oblong, acute, 

 iiot spreading, often unequal. Corolla infundibuliform, 1-1| in. long ; 

 tube gradually enlarged into the limb, about equalling the calyx, greenish ; 

 limb pink outside, darker pink inside, veined, often with dark purple spots 

 at the base ; lobes short, suborbicular, subequal. Stamens unequal, the 

 3 lower shorter, about equalling the corolla, the 2 upper longer than 

 the corolla; filaments pubescent at the base; anthers i in. long, sagit- 

 tate at the base. Ovary glabrous or faintly pubescent ; style longer 

 than the stamens, glabrous. Capsules § by | in., oblong, rounded at 

 the apex, circumscissile near the top. Seeds very numerous, ^ in. in 

 diam., discoid, tuberculate, yellow. El. B. I. v. 4, p. 245 ; Jaub. & 

 Spach, 111. PI. Or. V, 5, t. 415 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 



