PLANTS OF BERMUDA. . 5S 



toothed, the pale yellow corolla not spotted at the base, aud the 

 calyx less angular. 



— V. NICOTIANA. 



Calyx Jioe-cleft, persistent ; corolla funnel-shaped, with a long tube and 

 Ji.^e-lohed limb ; stamens five^ included in corolla-tube ; fruit a two-celled, 

 many-seeded capsule. 



1. N. Tabacum (SobiACco) . An annual, erect plant, four to six feet 

 high, clothed with a sticky, glandular pubescence ; leaves large, 

 lanceolate, entire, tapering to a point, sessile, the lower ones ex- 

 tending as wings down the stem ; flowers in cymes ; calyx- segments 

 acute ; corolla-tube long, throat inflated, the acute lobes curled 

 back ; capsule a little longer than the persistent calyx. Distribu- 

 tion, a native of Central America, now extensively cultivated in 

 West Indies, United States, &o. ; habitat, waysides, old ruins, &c. 

 Flowers pink, two inches long ; July to September. 



An attempt has been recently made to revive the cultivation of 

 Tobacco in Bermuda, but it has not yet been successful. 



2. iV. glauca, an evergreen tree with yellow flowers, is growing in 

 Pembroke churchyard and other places. 



Nat : Ord : 49. Boraginacea;. 



Herbaceous plants, rarely shrubs, with round stems and alternate 

 leaves, destitute of stipules ; flowers usually on one side of a spirally- 

 coiled (scorpioid) raceme ; sepals five, leafy, persistent ; corolla 

 deeply five-lobed, regular ; stamens five, inserted on corolla and 

 alternate with its lobes ; ovary deeply four-lobed, the simple style 

 arising from their base ; fruit of four dry one-seeded nutlets (com- 

 bined in Tournefortia) seated on the persistent calyx. 



fA few trees of the Scarlet Cordia fCordia Selestiana) overhanging 

 the road at Pembroke Hall ; the fragrant Heliotrope ( Selistropium 

 FcriivianumJ is a universal favourite in gardens ; and the pretty blue- 

 "^ ^^flowered Borage (Borago officinalis) , and a shrubby species of Tourne- 

 1^^ fortia {T. laurifoUa), may be seen in the Public Park and other 



ornamental grounds. 



I. HELIOTROPIUM, 



Flowers in scorpioid spikes ; anthers sessile near base of corolla-tube ; 

 nutlets four, distinct. 



1. K. curassavicum. An annual, procumbent seaside plant ; stems 

 much branched, radiating from the shrubby base, one to two feet 

 long ; leaves pale milky green, fleshy, one to one and a half inches 

 long by quarter of an inch wide, narrow lanceolate, quite entire, 

 sessile ; spikes in pairs, elongating in fruit three to four inches ; 

 sepals succident ; corolla salver- shaped, smooth inside ; style short ; 

 nutlets distinct. Distribution, West Indies and Florida ; habitat, 

 very common on sandy shores. Flowers one-sixth of an inch, 

 white, throat yellow, changing to purple ; May to October. 



