354 Solanaceae 



often yellowish or greenish flowers, in terminal often 

 bracted racemes or panicles. Calyx tubular-campanu- 

 late or ovoid, 5-cleft. Corolla funnelform, salver-shaped 

 or nearly tubular, the tube usually elongated, the. limb 

 5-lobed, spreading. Stamens 5, inserted on the tube of 

 the corolla; filaments filiform; anthers 4-celled, style 

 slender ; stigma capitate. Capsule 2-valved or some- 

 times 4-valved at the summit, smooth. Seeds numerous, 

 small. 



* Herbs. 



1. N. Cleveland! Gray. Viscid-pubescent or the stem villous, 

 2-6 dm. high; leaves ovate or the upper ovate-lanceolate, 5-8 

 cm. long, the lower obtuse and with margined petiole not dilated 

 at base, the upper subsessile and gradually narrowing from a 

 broad and rounded or truncate base into an acuminate apex; 

 bracts lanceolate ; flowers paniculate-racemose ; calyx-lobes linear, 

 unequal ; the longer fully twice the length of the tube, more than 

 half the length of the corolla; corolla greenish- white, tinged with 

 violet, almost glabrous, 2.5 cm. long, salver-shaped, the somewhat 

 5-lobed limb 1 cm. broad ; filaments slender, equally inserted low 

 down on the tube of the corolla. 



Sand-dunes along the seashore near Port Ballona. 



2. N. Bigelovii Wats. Viscid-pubescent ; stems 3-6 dm. high ; 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate, sessile or nearly so, the lower 12-18 cm. 

 long, with tapering base, the upper 4-8 cm. long, more acuminate, 

 with acute or some with broader and clasping base ; inflorescence 

 loosely racemiform; the upper flowers bractless; calyx-teeth 

 unequal, linear-subulate, about equaling the tube ; corolla white, 

 its tube 3-5 cm. long, narrow, with a gradually expanded throat, 

 the limb 5-angulate-lobed, 15-25 mm. broad; filaments somewhat 

 unequally inserted high up on the corolla-tube. 



Occasional in dry washes about Los Angeles. 



** Trees. 



3. N. glauca Graham. Arborescent, 3-6 m. high, glaucous 

 and glabrous; leaves long-petioled, ovate, subcordate; flowers 

 loosely paniculate; corolla greenish-yellow, 3-5 cm. long, tubular, 

 contracted at the throat, its limb erect, 5-crenate. 



A well-established introduced plant; rather common along streams. 

 Flowering all the year. 



