TEE POISONOUS PLANTS OF BOMBAY. 21 



CALYX. — Tubular, free, 3 iuches long, sometimes a little longer ; 

 ver)- minutely adpressed-pabescent : circumsciss. Segments — 5 ; 

 often only 3 or 4 ; |-| inch, wide ; green, triangular, acuminate, 

 acute. The lowermost portion J-| inch, persistent and enlarged in 

 fruit. Lobes at apex J inch long, ovate-lanceolate, according to some 

 writers. 



COROLLA — tubular, funnel-shaped (otherwise called trumpet- 

 shaped). Tube — over 7 inches, generally, gradually widening upward. 

 Limb — recurved, 4 inches or more in diameter. Lobes — five ; pubes- 

 cent on the back ; their plait or midrib terminating in a short linear 

 or recurved acute tail. Estivation — plicate or valvate in funnel- 

 part of the corolla : and contorted at apex, i.e., spirally twisted in bud, 

 as also after the flower is fully open. 



ANDRCECIUM, 



STAMENS — included ; about as long as the corolla-tube. 



Filaments — filiform ; adnate to the corolla-tube from base half- 

 way up ; free further on. 



Anthers — linear ; bi-lobed ; each lobe nearly | inch long. Dr. 

 Trimen says they dehisce vertically, meaning of coarse — longitudinally. 



Connective — of the same length as the anther-lobes, filiform, 

 less than half the thickness of the filament. 



Pollen — white. 



GYNCECIUM, 



OVARY — papillose ; the papillae subsequently mature with progress 

 of the pericarp of the fruit into sharp-pointed short prickles. Doubt- 

 less most of the papillae are abortive. The ovary is superior, 2-celled, 

 or imperfectly 4-celled ; seated on a yellowish Disk, 1-12 inch broad, 

 and burying as much of the ovary in its substance. 



Ovules — numerous, on prominent peltate white placentas. 



Placentation — axile. 



Style — linear, over six inches in length ; at times half an inch 

 longer than the stamens, at times half an inch shorter. 



Stigma — shortly two-lobed, often conical, mostly capitate ; ^ inch 

 long, at times ^ inch. 



FRUIT— A capsule sub-globose, 4-celled, 4-valved, nodding on a 

 curved peduncle ; supported at base on the reflected accrescent calyx. 

 The pericarp is fleshy, green, covered with numerous scattered short 



