496 
Vernac. names.—[Caralanta (Bolivia), Palan-palan or Balan- 
balan (Argentina) Bathmartiger Tabak (German) Comes|— 
Trumpet Tree (Jerusalem, Vester i 
Ill.—Bot. Mag. t. 2837; Sim, For. Fl. Cape Col. t. 115, f. 1. 
Native of T Argentine, Bolivia and Paraguay. Naturalised 
in South Afri 
Grown as an coer plant at Onitsha (Dodd, List of Pl. 
Onitsha Plantations and Gardens, July, 1907). Sim (l.c. p. 219) 
states that the plant prefers soil or rock in-which lime is present 
and that it has the reputation of being poisonous to stock. 
It is a pest in N.S. Wales, Victoria and S. Africa. 
Nicotiana rustica, Linn.; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. 2, p. 260. 
Il. Pc Or Field Graph Y 17; Comes, Monogr. Nicotiana, 
t. 1, f. 2; Kohler, Med. Pflan 
Vernac. name.—Guibili cue Battcock).—Turkish or East 
Indian Tobacco. 
Mexico, California, arte um Cultivated in India, 
Egypt, West Africa, and s have been collected in 
Kordofan, Simona, Sudan S ond. “No. re 6, 1907, Herb. Kew), 
um and Nile r Iwan. (Grant, E Kew), Madi Country 
(Dawe: i^m 871, 1905, Herb. Kew) and B.E. Africa. 
The Tobacco o Khartum LI the Nile (Grant), cultivated in 
Nile region growing 1-2 (Dawe l.c.), and according to 
Pieler (Bull. Soc. Nat. d’ As. France, 1912, p. 138) it is the 
species principally cultivated in the Sudanese region and it forms 
an important trade in French Guinea, the valley of the Middle 
Niger (French Sudan) and Northern Nigeria. The var. brasilia 
Schrank, ‘‘ fumo-crespo"" of the Brazilians, native of Brazil, is 
used in the manufacture of snuff, and var. humilis, Schrank, i$ 
extensively cultivated for the same purpose 
Ref.—‘‘ Nicotiana rustica: Turkish or East Indian sec ang 
in Dict. Econ. Prod. India, aig v. ome 1, 1891, 2. 
red a oward, 
Ve Vibe eds A ia. Tide iii. No. $ March 1910, p pp- 1-58, 
plates i.— 
Nicotiana Tabacum, ey | £L a ue ae Sect. 2, p. 259. 
—Gaertner, Fruct. Sem. Pl. . Encycl. t. 113; 
Buchoz, Herb. Col. Amérique, t. 96; Po 1 t. 99; Velloso, F1. 
Alogr. Brazil, p. 215; Bilberg, Ekonom. Bot. t. 12; Schk. Handb. ` 
t. 44; de. Amer. Med. Bot. t. 40; Nees von Esenbeck Plant. 
Medie "ug epu 194; Wagner, Pharm. Med. Bot. t. 101; Desc. 
Ant. 415; “Ha ayne, Darst. Beschr. Gewäche, xii. t. 41; 
Cual: Abbild. Beschr. t. 105; Steph. and Ch. Med. Bot. t. 31; 
Blanco, Fi. Filip. t. 36 (var. macroph lla); Burnett, Pl. Util. 1. 
t. la; Good, Fam. Flor. t. 84; Wight, Illust. t. 166 bis, f: 2; Nees 
von Esenbeck, Gen. Plant. Fl. Germ. v. t. 52; Berg and Schmidt, 
