Datura.'] en. SOLANACEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 243 



Linvuea, 1833, IMt. 141 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 174.Rheede Hort. Mai. 

 2, t. 28 ; Humph. Herb. Amb. v. t. 87, fig. 2. 



Throughout INDIA ; in waste places, a weed. DISTRIB. Malaya, Tropical Africa. 

 In America said to be not a native. 



Generally resembling D. Stramonium ; but the flowers are usually larger. Calyx 

 attaining 3 in. Corolla 1 in. and 5 in. diam. across the mouth. Capsule 1| in. diam., 

 subglobose, equally spinous on all sides. 



VAR. alba; flowers white or nearly so. D. alba, Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 

 73 : Wight Ic. t. 852 ; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 542 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 174. D. Metel, Eoxb. Fl. 2nd. i. 561 ; Wall. Cat. 2639, not of Linn. Humph. Herb. 

 Amb. v. t. 87, fig. 1. Throughout India. Distrib. of D.fastuosa. 



VAR. ? dubia ; fruit without spines. D. dubia, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 474. D. 

 Hummatu, var. a dubia, Bernh. in Linncea, 1833, Littl. 141. D. Nilhummatu, Dunal 

 in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 52.Rheede Hort. Mai. ii. tt. 29, 33. W. Deccan Penin- 

 sula? This species is founded on the figures of Kheede, which represent possibly one 

 of the foreign smooth-fruited species, none of which are wild in India ; hence 

 Bernhard appended Kheede's plant as a var. of a species which is always spinous so 

 far as known. 



3. D. BXetel, Linn. ; Bernh. in Linn. 1833, Litt. 143; leaves ovate entire 

 or deeply toothed pubescent, corolla whitish purple downwards limb 10-toothed, 

 capsule nodding. Hot. Maq. t. 1440 ; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 543. 

 Humph. Herb. Amb. v. t. 243. 



W. HIMALAYA and MTS. of W. DECCAN PENINSULA; introduced? DISTRIB. 

 Tropical America ; widely naturalised in the Old World. 



8. SCOPOLIA, Jacq. 



Erect, glabrescent herbs. Leaves entire. Pedicels axillary, solitary. Floivers 

 lurid, nodding. Calyx large, campanulate, subtruncate or shortly lobed ; in 

 fruit enlarged, overtopping the capsule. Corolla widely campanulate, plaited ; 

 lobes short, scarcely imbricate. Stamens 5, attached near the base of the 

 corolla; filaments filiform, somewhat dilated near the base; anthers ovate, 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary sub-2-celled ; style linear, stigma thick 

 dilated. Capsule globose, circumsciss above the middle. Seeds many, reni- 

 forrn, granulate ; embryo peripheric. Species 3 ; 1 European, 1 Japanese, 1 

 Himalayan. 



S. lurid a, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 555; leaves large petioled 

 ovate-lanceolate, corolla wide distinctly lobed, fruit-calyx large reticulated 

 limb very shortly lobed. Physalis stramonifolia, Wall. Cat. 2632, and in Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. ed. Carey Sf Wall. ii. 242. Nicandra anomala. Link, fy Otto Ic. Sel. 

 77, t. 35. Anisodus luridans, Link $ Otto in note, I.e.; Nees in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xvii. 72 ; Miers III. S. Amer. PI. ii., App. 18, t. 78. A. stramonifolius, 

 G. Don in Loud. Hort. Brit. 61. Whitleya stramonifolia, Sweet Brit. Fl. 

 Gard. t. 125. 



CENTRAL HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, near Ging, alt. 5000 ft,, Dr. 

 Treutler. 



Branches 3-6 ft., sparingly divided; rusty-tomentose when young, later puberulous 

 or glabrate. Leaves 8 by 3 in., acute at both ends, ultimately glabrate ; petiole % in. 

 Peduncles 1 in. Calyx in flower f in., in fruit attaining 2 by l in. ; lobes short, 

 irregular. Corolla 1J by f in., lurid yellow or greenish purple. Ovary 2-celled, 

 near the top 1 -celled. Capsule f in., lid 1-celled, remainder 2-celled. Seeds i in. 



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