CIS 



SOLAN ACE.-E. 



[PEEIGTNOCS ExooENS. 



Order CCXXXVIII. SOLANACE^.-Nightskades. 



r. j a 10. K,,,-ii rtrrl Nat 193 • Schlecht. in Linnera, 7. 

 Mane, /««• «*» 124.^1789) i «. '^^ ^f^BaSLSSL J& Pr. ccxviii. (183.) , 

 66. 18321 ; Itaf* *£«*«* fa ^^^i 7 ifa»Co7.«*cte#, JTfc ML (1835,.-Cestrace*, 

 ^•M5i*Sri2* **» (1830, ; W*. Gen. P . 669. 



D.agnos.s.-SoW A*** •« 5 A" *'"' n^P'"""*"' and a ^ aeemhr y°- 

 i \ i™„« oHpvnntp undivided, or lobed, sometimes col- 



Fig. CCCCXVII 



variable, often out of the axil ; the 

 pedicels without bracts. Caly x 5 ■ 

 parted, seldom 4 -parted, persis- 

 tent, inferior. Corolla monopeta- 

 lous, hypogynous ; the limb 5-cleft, 

 seldom 4-eleft, regular, or some- 

 what unequal, deciduous; the 

 aestivation plaited or imbricated, 

 or even valvate. Stamens inserted 

 upon the corolla, as many as the 

 segments of the limb, with which 

 thev are alternate ; anthers burst- 

 !,,* lonritudinally, rarely by pores, at the apex. Ovary 2-celled, composed of a pair of 

 carpeis nga* , } 00 hitropa i. Pencarp with 2, 



CeT T„;5anv cdbeS aSule with a double dissepiment parallel with the valves, 

 or ^irTSS^te Bering to lb. dissepunJt. Seeds 00 ; embryo straight 



i Xn „ut ,,f the centre, lying in fleshy albumen ; radicle near the hilum. 

 ° r S^tl2s "; Sohlum open &SL Nicotiana nniltivalvis has many cells in the 



i„ o „ i,nc T wnnersicon ; Nicandra is 5-celled, Datura 4-celled. 



T^££BFE?S Order is chiefly known from Figworts by the curved or 



• 1 n l 1 vn t le nhited aestivation of the corolla, and the flowers being regular with 



spiral ^^^IfSSS as lobes. Hence the genera with a corolla not plaited, and 



the same number ogj"" fae ^ t , ithei . be excluded or placcd | 



f ^S^S^^ffl^ ^ 4 in dicated corolla, a sligh tly^veo^ 



~~^ ~^^m TVhinia violaceft. 1. across section of the ovary ; 2 ripe fruit of Solanmu Dulca- 

 mara 5 : 3.TsertiIn o7one of its seld" 4. flower of Solanum . .ulcamara ; 5. a section of .tsseed ; 6. py» 

 of Hyoscyamus, 



