“Nicotiana.] SOLANACE#. 751 
@ circumscissile scar above the base. Petals 5, connate in a long, 
tubular corolla, with funnel- -shaped throat and spreading, plaited 
limb, entire or shortly 5- or 10-lobed. Stamens 5, adnate to near 
base of corolla-tube : ; filaments filiform ; srt included, linear ; 
dehiscence longitudinal. Carpels connate in a 2-celled or, b 
development of accessory septa from the placentas, spuriously 
4-celled ovary; ovules many; style filiform; stigma 2-lobed. 
Fruit an ellipsoid, 4-celled, asvowent capsule, 4-valved or irre. 
larly bursting near the a apex. Seeds very many, onkrebbed, 
rugose ; embryo es tae 
Capsule opening irregularly near apex, usually pendent :— 
Flowers more or less purple fastuosa 
Flowers white or cream-coloured fastuosa var, alba, 
Capsule deeply 4-valved almost to the base, erect ; flowers rs purple 
Stramonium var. Tatula. 
1398. Datura rastuosa Linn.; F. I. i. 561; F. B. I. iv. 242; 
mee dee in gardens; occasionally subspontaneous. 
coarse, shrubby annual. Vernac. Kala dhutra. 
1398/2. ne ALBA; F, B. I. iv. 243; E. D. D. 160. D. alba 
PT. 1561. 
In all ical provinces, in gardens and as if wild. 
A coarse, shrubby annual. Vernac. Dhutra. Datura. 
1399. Rasen. raigaeed| Linn. var. Taruta; F. B, I. iv. 242. 
Chota Nagpur, in waste places near Bho 
A coarse, shrubby annual, Vernac. Dhutra. 
640. Nicotiana Linn. 
Erect, viscidly pubescent herbs or shrubs; leaves alternate, 
entire or sinuate. Flowers in terminal panicles or subterminal 
racemes. Sepals connate in a ss fid, ovoid or tubular ~— 
_late corolla ; lobes iiduplidate in bud. Stamens 5, adnate to a 
part of corolla-tube ; filaments filiform ; anthers ovate; dehiscence 
longitudinal, Carpels connate in a 2-celled ovary; ovules many } 
Style filiform ; ; stigma shortly 2-fid. Fruit a capsule, 2-celled or 
Sccasionally imperfectly 4-celled ; valves 2, separating to the 
middle from the apex, often again splitting. Seeds very many, 
maal, emi compressed ; embryo nearly straight. 
