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The Synonyms of Datura fastuosa are numerous. I wish to devote 

 a few lines to consider them with a view to show how the nomencla- 

 ture of the Indian species of the Genus Datura has been determined 

 by various European, American, and Indian botanists of note. It 

 seems all the more necessary to do so, as it will be seen from Clarke's 

 description of the N.O. Solanacese (Hooker's Fl. Br. India, Vol. IV), 

 that under Genus Datura, (pp. 242, 243), there are queries and 

 doubtful varieties referred to, which are somewhat perplexing. It 

 would be useful, therefore, to study page 720 of Fasciculus I of Sir 

 Joseph Hooker's Index Kewensis (1893), where we find the following 

 synonyms for Datura fastuosa, Linn. : — 



D. Igevis, Schhuhr. 



D. Metel, ilill. 



D. muricata, Link, 



D. Nilhummatu, Dun. 



D. stramonium, Thunb. 



D. Wagmanni, Steud. Norn. 

 Ed. II ; I. 484. 



The following are the synonyms of Datura Metel, Lmw., as given 

 in Hooker's Index Kewensis : — 



1. D. fruticosa, Hornem, &lg. I 3. D. timorierisis, Zipp. 



2. D.guayaquilensis, H. K.&B. \ 



Under this head I may mention the synonyms of Datura Meteloides, 

 D. C. ex. Dun., especially as Emeritus Professor Marshall Woodrow 

 of Poona College of Science mentions D. Meteloides in his work 

 on Gardening in India (p. 401, 3rd Ed. 189^, Bombay). They are 

 as follows : — 



1. D. Metel, M09. and Sesse, ex Dun. D. C, Prod. xiii. 1. 



2, D. Wrightii. 



The following are the synonyms of Datura stramonium, Linn., as 

 given in Hooker's Index Kewensis : — 



1. D. Capensis, Berrih. 



2. D. ferox, Nees. 



3. D. loricata, Sieb. 



4. D. lurida, Salish. 



D. parviflora, Salisb. 



D, pseudo-stramonium, Sieb. 



D. tatula, Linn. 



D. Wallichii, Dun., D. C. 



Dr. Norman Chevers in his Medical Jurisprudence for India 

 mentions a species of Datura under the name of D. ferox, on the 

 authority of Dr. W. Palmer, as found in India. In Hooker's Index 

 Kewensis, D. ferox is referred to China only. In Johnson's Gardener's 



