244 en. SOLANACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Physochlaina. 



9. PHYSOCHLAINA, G. Don. 



Erect, nearly glabrous herbs. Leaves petioled, subentire. Corymb terminal. 

 Calyx campanulate, lobes 5 short ; in fruit elongated, overtopping the capsule. 

 Corolla elongate ; lobes 5, short, imbricate in bud. Stamens attached at the 

 middle of the tube, filaments filiform ; anthers ovate, ]ongitudinally dehiscent. 

 Ovary 2-celled ; style linear, stigma obscurely 2-lobed. Capsule 2-celled ; cir- 

 cumsciss above the middle. Seeds very many, compressed ; embryo peripheric. 

 Species 4 ; Central Asiatic. 



P. praealta, Hook. f. Sot. Mag. t. 4600, in note ; leaves ovate-oblong 

 sinuate, corymb compound lax viscid-pubescent, corolla f-l| in., stamens and 

 style equalling the corolla or ^ in. longer. Miers III. S. Amer. PL ii. App. 15. 

 P. grandiflora, Hook. f. Sot. Mag. t. 4600. Belenia praealta, Dene, in 

 Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 144, t. 120. Hyoscyamus prsealtus, Walp. Rep. iii. 21. 

 Scopolia praealta, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 554. 



N". KASHMIR and WESTERN TIBET, alt. 12-15,500 ft., Munro, Thomson, Strachey <$f 

 Winterbottom, &c. DISTRIB. Kashgar and Yarkand. 



Stems 2-4 ft., corymbose upwards. Leaves 4-6 by 3 in., irregular, base cuneate 

 or cordate on the same branch ; petiole 1-4 in. Corymb 2-8 in. diam. ; flowers all 

 pedicelled ; pedicels 5--!^ in. Calyx in flower ^ in. ; lobes |- in., lanceolate ; in fruit 

 If by ^ in., striate. Corolla \\ by| in., tubular-funnel-shaped, in the majority of the 

 wild examples, sometimes shorter, funnel-shaped ; in sonle cultivated examples wider, 

 subcampanulate. Stamens aud style distinctly exserted in nearly all the wild examples. 

 Capsule ^ in. diam. Seeds ^ in. diam., scrobiculate-reticulate. 



10. HYOSCYAMUS, Linn. 



Erect, coarse herbs. Leaves sinuate, toothed, or subpinnatifid. Flowers 

 unilateral, sessile or pedicelled, lower axillary solitary, upper forming a dense 

 racemose or subscorpioid cyme, upper leaves bract-like. Corolla lurid, yellow 

 or greenish purple. Calyx urn-shaped, shortly 5-lobed ; in fruit enlarged, 

 overtopping the capsule. Corolla funnel-shaped ; limb oblique, 5-fid, lobes 

 more or less unequal, imbricate in bud. Stamens attached about the middle of 

 the corolla-tube, filaments filiform ; anthers exserted or subincluded, oblong, 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, stigma subcapitate. 

 Capsule completely 2-celled, or nearly so, circumsciss near the apex. Seeds 

 very many, compressed, scrobiculate ; embryo peripheric. Species 9; Euro- 

 pean, and extending to Central Asia. 



1. K. nigfer, Linn.-, Soiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 295; cauline leaves sessile ovate 

 or oblong sinuate or lobed, flowers subsessile, calyx softly hairy teeth mucronate, 

 corolla 1 in. lurid reticulate-nerved. Wall. Cat. 2636, and in Roxb. FL Ind. 

 ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 237 ; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 77 ; Sot. Mag. t. 

 2394; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 546 ; Sentl. fy Trimen Med. PL t. 196. 

 H. agTestid, Kitaibel ; Sweet FL ward. t. 27. II. persicus, Suhse Reise Trans- 

 kauk. 158. 



TEMPERATE WESTERN HIMALAYA, alt. 8-11,000 ft., from Kashmir to Gurwhal ; 

 frequent. DISTRIB. Europe, W. & N. Asia. 



Pubescent and more or less hairy. Leaves 5 by 2 in. Lower pedicels in fruit 

 scarcely ^ in. Calyx in flower f in., teeth short, triangular ; in fruit 1 by in., 

 subcontracted in the middle, teeth somewhat rigid. Corolla purple in the base, limb 

 lurid green, purple-veined Capsule ^ in. diam. Seeds ^ in. diam. 



