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nate, exstipulate, entire or more or less lobed, rarely compound; 

 often glandular-hairy. Flowers in cymes ; regular or rarely irregular 

 (Petunia, Tobacco sps.), pentamerous, perfect, synphyllous; sepals 

 green (rarely petaloid), rotate to tubular, usually persistent and 

 accrescent; petals rotate (Solanum), to tubular (Atropa), to funnel- 

 shaped (Tobacco), and so (i) open to all comers, or (2) to bees or 

 wasps, or (3) to butterflies, moths; color, greenish-yellow, or 

 greenish- white, to white, to pink, crimson, purple, rarely blue; sta- 

 mens five, epipetalous, hypogynous, along with style usually forming 

 nectar glands. Filaments short to long, anthers dehiscing longi- 

 tudinally or by apical pores; pistil bicarpellate, syncarpous, with 

 or without nectar girdle; superior ovary, two-celled with central 

 placentation, ovules numerous, style more or less elongate with 

 bilobed or bifid stigma. Fruit, a capsule (Tobacco, Thornapple, 

 Henbane) dehiscing longitudinally or transversely; or a berry 

 (potato, egg-plant, tomato, red pepper). Seeds albuminous. 



