2. Datuea.] 76. SOLANACE& 



with 5 linear teeth. Capsule 4-valved ovoid seated on the 

 swollen calyx base. 



Waste ground near villages. Fls., Fr. c.s. 



Yields the well-known poison. The powdered seeds are said to be 

 used in the Kolhan for stupefying coolies whom it is desired to take to 

 Assam. 



2. D. fastuosa, L. Dhatura. E., K. Thorn-apple. 



A large annual 2-6 ft. high with ovate glabrous entire 

 or toothed leaves 6-8" and large white flowers usually 7" by 

 5". Capsule irregularly dehiscent sub-glol se seated on the 

 swollen calyx base. 



Gardens and waste ground near villages. 



Same properties as the last. 



Fam. 77. BIGXOMACEvE. 



Trees (exotic species often large woody climbers) with 

 opposite usually 2-3-pinnate, more rarely 1- pinnate or 

 simple, exstipulate leaves. Fls. large or showy, irregular, 

 2-sexual, in racemes or panicles. Calyx campanulate, 

 sometimes spathaceous, lobes valvate. Corolla tubular- 

 vantricose, lobes sub-equal. St. 4, with the 5th. often rudi- 

 mentary or suppressed, rarely perfect. Disc pulvinate or 

 annular. Ovary 2-celled ; style long, stigma 24obed. 

 Ovules numerous, anatropous, usually many-seriate. ' Fruit 

 pod-like, loculicidally or septicidally 2-valved. Seeds 

 flattened winged, exalbuminous. 



Species of Tecoma and Bignonia, erect shrubs or climbers, with hand- 

 some yellow, orange or red flowers, are common in gardens. Anderson 

 quotes " Heterophragma Koxburghii, D.C," a tree with 1-pinnate leaves 

 and woolly panicles as occurring on Farasnath ! 



I. St. 5 perfect, Small tree with 2-3-pinuate leaves. 1. uroxylwn, 



II. St. 4 perfect, L. 1- or 2-3-pinnate. 



L. 1-pinnate. Septum of pod thick subtejete . 2. Btereospermnm 



L.i2-3-pinnate, Septum of pod flat . . .3. Millingtonia. 



III. St. 4 perfect L. simple . • . ,4. Tec&ma. 



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