2io The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



H. includes in this P.'s D. alba and D. hummatu. He makes this to 

 differ from D. Stramonium, the English thorn apple (the Virginian 

 fireweed, from the plant there springing up in places cleared by fire), 

 in the flowers being usually larger, and the capsule nearly indehiscent 

 instead of 4-lobed. There are also smooth varieties of D. fastuosa. 



* Lycium Europ&um, the box thorn, a thorny shrub, leaves linear 

 oblong, flowers from purple to nearly white, corolla much longer 

 than calyx, berry small, red or yellow. Gdngro, chirchitta. A native 

 of S. Europe, ascribed by Stocks to salt soil in W. India (H.). 



The following are cultivated. Several species of Nicotiana, to- 

 bacco, "plant divine of rarest virtue" (Lamb} : in England 

 also as garden and conservatory plants. The Petunias, equally 

 common in English and Indian gardens. Capsicum frutescens, chili, 

 Idl mirch; C. Nepalense, yellow pepper; and other species. Brug- 

 mansia Candida, mota dhdtara, a large climber with white flowers six 

 inches long, like a gigantic datura: common in Indian gardens and 

 English conservatories, and growing luxuriantly about Mahableshwar. 

 Hyoscyamus niger, common henbaue, Khorasdni ajwan, a weed in 

 England, though not very common. 



" Then in the outskirts, where pollutions grow, 

 Pick the rank henbane." Coleridge. 



Probably the ' cursed hebenon ' of the Ghost in Hamlet. " It 

 bears poison in its looks " (0.). 



Finally Mandragora officinalis, the mandrake of Scripture, " fabled 

 Mandragore," which grows wild throughout Palestine (an allied 

 species is found in the Himalayas), belongs to this order. 



" Not poppy, nor mandragora, 

 Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, 

 Shall ever medicine thee." Othello. 



ORDER 83. LENTIBULARIEJE. 



Note. In H. this order comes between Scrophularineee and 

 Gesneraceae, but I have put it here, so as to keep all the didynamous 

 orders together. 



Herbs growing in water or wet places, leaves radical in- 

 conspicuous, sometimes root-like with vesicles or air bladders ; 

 flowers very irregular, calyx inferior, 2 to 5 lobed, corolla 2- 

 lipped spurred, upper lip usually smaller, lower lip 3 to 5 

 lobed, stamens 2 on the base of the corolla, filaments broad, 

 ovary round, stigma unequally 2-lobed, capsule round. 



" The spurred flowers of this order have a general resemblance to 

 those of Linaria (Scrophulariaceee), though the ovary and capsule 

 are those of Primulaceae " (Bentham). The species found on this 

 side of India are, like the English Utricularias, very small plants, 



