NAT. ORDER. 



Solanacece. 



NOLANA PKO STRATA. TRAILINa NOLANA. 



Class V. Pentandria. Order I. Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Corolla, plicate in sestivation, five lobed. Stamens, five 

 adnate to tlie tube of the Corolla. Ovaria, one to five, or more 

 crowded, seated on a fleshy annular disk. Stigma, carpitate. 

 Drupe, solitary, or five together. 



^e. Char. Stems, prostrate. Leaves, ovate-oblong-. Cahj.r, pyra- 

 midal, with triangularly sagitate segments, furnished with spur- 

 like processes at the base. 



The calyx is a one-leafed perianthium, turbinate at the base, five- 

 parted, five-cornered ; the segments cordate, acute, and permanent ; 

 the corolla is one petalled, bell-shaped, plaited, spreading, and some- 

 what five-lobed, and twice as large as the calyx ; the stamens have 

 five awl-shaped filaments, which are erect, equal, and shorter than the 

 corolla ; the anthers sagitate ; the jnstillum is similar to five roundish 

 germs ; the style is among the germs, cylindric, straight, and about the 

 length of the stamens ; stigma, capitate ; the pericarp, properly none ; 

 the dnipes are five in number, decumbent, and three or five-celled ; 

 the seeds are five, with a succulent rind, roundish, with the inner base 

 naked, immersed in the receptacle, two-celled and four-celled, and 

 solitary ; the root is annual, simple, filiform, about three feet long, and 

 blackish ; the stem is from a foot to a foot and ahalf long, herbaceous, 

 prostrate, roundish, very smooth, and spotted with white dots over its 

 surface ; the branches are alternate, the lower ones about the length 

 of die stalk ; the leaves are alternate, two together, reflex rombovate, 

 quite entire, blunt, somewhat fleshy, an inch long, somewhat papulose, 



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