48 STUDIES IN INDIAN TOBACCOS. 



Type XV. Plants late, very bushy partly owing to the com- 

 paratively large size of the inflorescence leaves ; height 82 cms. 

 Leaves inserted at an angle of 45°, subcordate ; apex obtuse to 

 rounded ; margin very undulate ; surface very puckered ; colour 

 dark blue-green ; average length of petiole 9cms. ; average length 

 of lamina 2 1 cms. ; ratio length/breadth '98. Inflorescence 

 leaves inserted at an angle of 30° to 45° and resemble the lower 

 leaves in every way but are smaller. Inflorescence neither very 

 compact nor very open ; sideshoots long but not as long as the 

 main axis. Flotvers crowded, slender. Calyx tubular ; teeth 

 obtuse. Corolla with a very slightly divided limb which is flat ; 

 apiculse inconspicuous. Capsule small, rounded, almost covered 

 by the persistent calyx ; apex blunt and not umbilicate. 



In this type self-pollination is predominant, the stamens are 

 raised well above the stigma and completely cover it when the 

 flower opens and the pollen is being shed. 



