NARCOTICS. 



one, a finer Bacchic burst than I have met with amongst the most 

 enthusiastic of the poets who have sung of Wine^ Rig Veda, ix. ' The 

 purifying Soma like the sea rolling its waves, has poured forth songs, and 

 hymns, and thoughts." 



N. O. 158. ATROPACE^E. ATROPADS. 



Datura Hummatu var. fastuosa, Bernh. Purple Thorn-apple. 

 Datura Mctel. W. Downy Thorn-apple. 



Linn. Syst. Pentandria Monogynia. 



The seed. 



Vernacular. Black species, Doostoora, Krishna-dhattura, Sans. 

 Kala-dhatura, Lal-dhatura, Hind. Beng. Umana, Neel-nummatu y 

 Mai. Karoo-oomattay, Tam. Nulla-oomatie, Tel. Kaloo-attana, 

 Antenna, Cey. Bunjdhestee, Arab. Goozgeeah, Pers. Rotecu- 

 bung, Malay. White species, Sada-dhatura, Hind. Beng. Hum- 

 matu, Mai. Yellay-oomattay, Tam. Tella-oomatie, Daturamu, 

 Tel. Suda-attana, Cey. Both in common, Dhatura, India. 

 Jowzmazil (Methel-seed), Arab. 



Habitat. Egypt ; Asia. 



Remarks. See " Drugs." The seeds of these plants are used com- 

 monly in India on account of their intoxicating influence ; and frequently 

 criminally, as in Bombay are also the seeds of Common Henbane of the 

 same order. Species of Datura as S. Stramonium and D. sanguinea, 

 are used as intoxicants in Europe and America. 



Nicotiana Tabacum. Linn. Virginian Tobacco, Herbe a la Reine. 



Linn. Syst. Pentandria Monogynia. 



The dried leaf, Tobacco. 



Vernacular. Dhumrapatra t Tamra-fcoota, Sans. Tumak, Tambaca, 

 Beng. Hind. Bujjirbhang, Arab. Hind. Poghei, Tam. Pogha- 

 ko, Tel. Doonkola, Cyng. Toombacco, Malaya. 



Habitat. America. Cultivated over the whole world, its range 

 being wider perhaps than of any other economic plant, excepting 

 the Potatoe. 



Remarks. Tobacco was first seen of Europeans in 1492, by Columbus 

 and his followers, as though this unrivalled herb which, from its native 

 seat in America, spreading over the wide world, has in every country 

 from the equator to the poles found a home, the consoler alike of savage 

 and philosopher, and equally within the means of king and beggar, were 

 in verity the secret force which drew the old world to the discovery of the 

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