840 Solanaceae. 
Species about 1400, absent only from arctic and alpine regions, very 
abundant in tropical and extra-tropical South America. 
Several Solanacew are cultivated for use or ornament, among which 
may be mentioned Lycium vulgare, often called Tea-plant, a straggling or 
climbing shrub, with small lilac flowers, often to be seen in cottage gardens, 
and established in hedges in some of the eastern counties of England, as in 
Central Europe; the Tobacco (Nicotiana), and the closely allied ornamental 
genera Petunia and Nierembergia, the Mandrake (Mandragora), the Winter- 
cherry (Physalis), the Cayenne Pepper (Capsicum), as well as the Cestrums 
and Fabianas of the gardens, which, although somewhat anomalous, belong 
to Solanaceae. 
A. Ovary 4—5 ore: more: celled, |... «fe, ~ 4/4-- (1. Nieandra. 
B. Ovary 2-(rarely 3-) celled. 
I. Fruit baccate. 
a) Anthers usually dehiscing by pores ... 2. Solanum. 
b) Anthers dehiscing by longitudinal slits. 
1. Calyx much enlarged in fruit. 
a): Flowers solitary...) - «+ «2 ss. “owe. sae 
8) Flowers fascicled ..... 4. Withania. 
2. Calyx not or slightly enlarged in fruit. 
a) Corolla subrotate, valvate ... .. 5. Capsicum. 
8) Corolla tubular or funnel-shaped, im- 
brieateraiiusr. 2diheidearisd. “ilanéy byciune 
Il. Fruit capsular. 
a) Capsule 4-valved. . . .. . .... . . 7. Datura. 
b) Capsule circumscissile . . Hyoseyamus. 
c) Capsule 2-valved. ....... +... 9. Nicotiana. 
fe 2) 
484. (1.) Nicandra Adans. 
Annual caulescent herbs, with deep green foliage. Leaves alter- 
nate; blades broad, sinuate-toothed or lobed. Flowers nodding, solitary 
in the axils. Calyx accressent angled, inflated at maturity; sepals 
nearly distinct, cordate or sagittate at the base. Corolla blue or 
violet, plicate in the bud, campanulate slightly 5-lobed. Stamens 5, 
included; filaments adnate to the base of the corolla, filiform from a 
dilated and pubescent base; anthersacs opening lengthwise. Ovary 
3—5-celled; stigma 3—5-lobed. Berry subglobose, rather dry, 
enclosed in the calyx. 
A small genus with only a few species in Tropical South America. 
1179. Nicandra physaloides (L.) Gaertn. De Fructib. I (1789), 
p. 237 tab. 131 fig.2. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV., p. 287. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ilustr. Flor. d’Eg., p.112 no. 756. — Sickenberg. Contrib. 
