Hyoscyamus.J en. SOLANACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) 245 



2. K. pusillus, Linn. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 294 ; cauline leaves petioled 

 ovate or oblong sinuate or lobed, flowers subsessile, calyx striate glabrescent 

 teeth lanceolate mucronate, corolla -f in. not reticulate. Dunal in DC. 

 Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 550 ; Jaub. $ Spach III. v. t. 414. 



WESTERN TIBET; Ladak; alt. 10,000 ft, Thomson. DISTEIB. From Egypt to 

 Persia and the Altai. 



About a foot high, pubescent, somewhat viscid. Leaves 3-5 by 1-2 in., very 

 irregiilarly lobed or subentire ; petiole ^-1^ in. Lower pedicels in fruit sometimes 

 nearly | in., usually very short. Calyx in. ; in fruit f-1 in., funnel-shaped, ribbed, 

 somewhat reticulated, glabrous or sparsely viscid pubescent, teeth \ in., almost 

 prickly, patent. Corolla yellow, purple in the base. Capsule % in. Seeds even 

 smaller than in H. niger. 



3. H. muticus, Linn. Mant. 45 ; cauline leaves petioled ovate or oblong 

 entire or toothed, lower flowers pedicelled, calyx striate pubescent teeth short 

 triangular not acute in fruit, corolla 1-1 in. lurid yellow or nearly white. 

 Jaub. 8f Spach III. v. t. 415; Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 293. H. Datora, 

 Forsk. FL sa.-Arab. 45. H. betsefolius, Lamk. Diet, iii. 329. H. insanus, 

 Stocks in Hook. Keiv Journ. iv. 178. H. angulatus, Griff. Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 412. 

 Scopolia niutica, Datora and Bo vena, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 552, 553. 



WEST PUNJAB ; Thomson. SCINDE ; Stocks. DISTEIB. Cabul, westwards to Egypt. 



Stem 1-3 ft. Leaves 4-7 in., pubescent or somewhat woolly ; petiole -3 in. 

 Lower pedicels in fruit ^-1 in. Calyx f in. ; in fruit 1 by ^ in., funnel-shaped, ribbed, 

 somewhat reticulate, villous or ultimately glabrous ; teeth short-triangular, not 

 spreading. Capsule \ in. diam. Seeds j~ in. diam. 



10*. NICOTIANA, Linn. 



Erect, viscidly-pubescent, herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves entire OP sinuate. 

 Panicles terminal, or racemes compound, subterminal. Calyx ovoid or tubular, 

 5- fid. Corolla funnel-shaped ; lobes 5, induplicate in bud. Stamens attached 

 in the lower part of the corolla-tube, filaments filiform ; anthers ovate, dehis- 

 cing longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform, stigma shortly 2-fid. 

 Capsule 2-, rarely sub-4-, celled, 2-valved to the middle, valves often again 

 splitting. Seeds very many, small, scarcely compressed ; embryo nearly straight. 

 Species 35 ; American, Australian, and Polynesian. 



1. N. Tabacum, Linn. ; Gaertn. Fruct. i. 264, t, 55; leaves large 

 fSblong or elliptic base cuneate, corymb compound ultimate branches short, 

 calyx-teeth triangular-lanceolate, corolla linear-funnel-shaped, capsule f in. 

 Lamk 111. t. 113 ; Wall. Cat. 2645 ; Nee* in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 76 ; Wight 

 111. t. 166 bis: Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 657 ; Bentl. $ Trimen Med. PL 

 t. 101. 



Throughout INDIA, cultivated. DISTBIB. Native in America; cultivated in all 

 warm countries. 



Tobacco, though cultivated in nearly every village in Bengal, shows little tendency 

 to spread as a weed. In Cochin China and the Moluccas, Louveirs and Eumphius 

 say it has been known from a remote period. 



2. N. rustica, Linn.; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 563; leaves 

 ovate base obtuse or cordate, panicle close, calyx-teeth triangular subobtuse, 

 corolla cylindric campanulate, berry in. Reich Ic. FL Germ. t. 1626, fig. 1. 



W. PUNJAB ; cultivated, Falconer. DISTRIB. Native of Mexico ; cultivated in 

 Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. 



