Victorian Plants. . -363 



NICOTZANA. 



1994. Corolla somewhat greenish outside, the lobes on the 

 upper side whitish or slightly yellowish. 



Herbaceous, often tall and much beset with viscid hairlets ; 

 lower leaves from almost ovate to somewhat spatular ; 

 upper leaves few, mostly sessile, from nearly cordate to 

 lanceolar or occasionally absent ; flowers generally soon 

 distant, in simple or somewhat compound racemes, 

 varying from rather small to quite large ; lobes of the 

 corolla roundish, considerably shorter than its tube; 

 fruit almost ovate ; seeds very numerous, minute. 

 " Native Tobacco-plant. " N. suaveolens. 



ANTKOCEZtCXS. 



1595. Flowers rather large, in leafy panicles. 



Tall, imperfectly beset with very short hairlets ;' leaves 

 large, from elliptic to lanceolar, glabrescent ; flowers few 

 together or only two or sometimes solitary on each branch 

 of the inflorescence ; corolla whitish, its lobes acute, 

 somewhat unequal ; anthers almost one-celled ; fruit 

 globular- ovate, few-seeded. A. Eadesii. 



.Flowers very small, solitary. 



Dwarf, beset with short glandule-bearing hairlets ; leaves 

 small, sessile, from oval to narrow-elliptical and broad- 

 linear, often recurved at the margin ; flowers on short 

 stalklets ; corolla whitish, its lobes obtuse, somewhat 

 unequal ; anthers almost one-celled ; fruit globular-ovate, 

 few-seeded. A. myosotidea. 



PRIMULA-CEAE. 

 SAMOX.US. 



1596. Leaves almost or quite membranous. 



Leaves from roundish- to lanceolar-ovate ; flowers quite 

 small, in racemes ; lobes of. calyx deltoid, soon shorter 

 than the tube ; corolla tender, whitish or pink ; filaments 

 shorter than the corolla-tube ; anthers minute, cordate ; 

 fruit small, globular, slightly emerged. S. Valerandi. 



Leaves firm, somewhat succulent. 



Leaves from narrow- to lanceolar-linear or the lower verging 

 into an obovate form, the upper occasionally diminutive ; 

 flowers rather large, in racemes, or exceptionally quite 

 solitary on a dwarf short- and broad-leaved state of the 

 plant ; lobes of calyx narrowly semilanceolar, longer than 

 its tube ; corolla firm, whitish or pink ; anthers ovate, 

 pointed; fruit ovate, half emerged. S. repens. 



