494 
and Ch. Med. Bot. : i. 6; Baxter, Brit. Bot. ii. t. 121; Zenker, 
Fl. Thuringen, ii. t. 217; Burnett, Pl. Util. ii. t. 43 a; Good, 
Fam. Flor. t. 56; i and Schmidt, Darst. Beschr. Pharm. iii. t. 
20 d; Sym , Eng. Bot. vi. Ed. 3, t. 835; dT Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 
1624, ig di "Bentl. and bum Med. Pl. . 192; DW Med. 
Pflan ; Rev. Hort. 1910, p. 132; Henkel, U.S. Dept. Agric 
ear Bull. No. 188, 1904, ff. s "87: Bureau of Pl. Noirs 
Bull. No. 219, 1911, p. 30, 1.22. 
es.—Chamisco, Cham ico Morado, Estramonio 
weed, David's Trish, Wildfire m E: amestown Ly Apple of 
Peru, Fire-weed, etc., c. 
Kuka on Lake Chad ; widely distributed in Tropical Africa and 
generally throughout the Tropics, and during long hot seasons in 
many temperate countries—Germany, Austria-Hungary, etc. 
In England it is grown at Long Melford, Suffolk. 
p seeds contain 16 per cent and upwards of oil of feeble drying 
alue bero ni Agric. Ledger, No. 5, 1911-12, ‘‘ Oils and Fats of 
jadis o 156). 
onous principle is ** Daturi Andrews finds the percentage 
of Our à Ikaloid in the fines bx in the leaves 0-41 and 
, and in the fruits 0'46—in this respect bearing favourable 
M dun EU KI em and Egyptian plants—t e alkaloid 
Smoking the leaves en ben kiad ERER for asthma, and 
'Stramonium"' cigarettes or cigars have been sold for this 
purpose for many years. Syme (Eng. Bot. vi. 1866, p. 105 
mentions this use, and Fuchs (De Hist. pus "o ( (1542) p. 691) 
mentions the name ‘‘ Rauch Apfel-Krau moke Apple- 
w indicative of a similar use. It is att a cigarettes 
recently sold in this country under the name ‘‘ Fumastra,’’ are 
Li 
> onal from the leaves of this and the above-mentioned species of 
The Thorn A: AN is cultivated in England, but it grows wild in 
Germany and Hungary whence supplies of the drug have come. 
An annual of rank growth 1-2 ft. high in cool countries, 6-7 is 
high—very dark green leaves, white scented flowers, growin 
= water, Somaliland (Phillips, Herb. Kew), common through 
t U ganda (Dawe, Rept. Bot. Miss Uganda, 1906, p. 53 » 
cultivated throughout Mexico (Dolley, 1.c 
Propagated by seeds, about 10—15 Ib. being required to sow an 
acre. May se sown in drills or planted out in rows about 2-3 ft. 
apart; the crop will be r eady for cutting in from 3-4 months. 
leaves akon be collected at the time of flowering, the whole 
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