386 SOLANACEAE. 



mid-vein; petioles slender, 1-1.5 cm. long; cymes axillary, few-several-flowered, 

 their peduncles much shorter than the petioles; pedicels 1.5-3 mm. long; 

 calyx oblong-campanulate in flower, 4 mm. long, its teeth triangular-lanceo- 

 late, 1.5 mm. long; corolla-tube greenish yellow, 9-13 mm. long, narrowly ob- 

 conic, its lobes lanceolate, acuminate, purplish, 4-5 mm. long, white-lanose 

 ivithin; stamens inserted on the tube of the corolla just below the lobes, the 

 free part of the filament scarcely longer than the anther; berry blue-black, 

 shining, obovoid, about 12 mm. long, 5-6 mm. thick; fruiting calyx broadly 

 obeonie, loosely enclosing the narrowed base of the berry. 



Coppices, savannas and scrub-lands, Great Bahama and Abaco to Andros, Cat 

 Island and Long island : — Cuban Caya. Referred by Grisebach, Dolley, Mrs. Northrop 

 and Hitchcock to Cestrum pallidum Lam. ; recorded by Coker as Bolanum havanense 

 Jacq. and by Schoepf as Cestrum vespertinum. Bahama Cesteum. 



Cbsteum diuekum L., recorded by Dolley, has been cultivated on New Provi- 

 dence. 



6. DATURA L. Sp. PI. 179. 1753. 



Tall narcotic herbs, some tropical species shrubs or trees, with alternate 

 petioled leaves, and large solitary erect, short-peduncled, white purple or violet 

 flowers. Calyx; elongated-tubular or prismatic, its apex 5-eleft or spathe-like, 

 in the following species ciroumscissile near the base which is persistent and 

 subtends the prickly capsule. Corolla funnelform, the limb plaited, 5-lobed, 

 the lobes broad, acuminate. Stamens included or little exserted; filaments 

 filiform, very long, inserted at or below the middle of the corolla-tube. Ovary 

 2-eelled, or falsely 4-Celled; style filiform; stigma slightly 2-lobed. Capsule 

 4-valved from the top, or bursting irregularly. [The Hindoo name, dhatura.] 

 About 12 species, of wide distribution. Type species: Datura Stramonium L. 



Spines of the capsule subulate. 



Capsules erect. 1. D. Stramonium. 



Capsules nodding. 2. D. Metel. 



Spines of the capsule short, deltoid. 3. D. fastuosa. 



1. Datura Stramonium L. Sp. PI. 179. 1753. 



Datura Tatula I/. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 256. 1762. 



Annual, glabrous or the young parts sparingly pubescent; stem stout, 

 3-15 dm. high. Leaves thin, ovate, acute or acuminate, mostly narrowed at 

 the base, 0.7-2 dm. long, irregularly sinuate-lobed, the lobes acute; flowers 

 white, about 1 dm. high; calyx prismatic, less than one-half the length of the 

 corolla; capsule ovoid, erect, densely prickly, about 5 cm. high. 



Waste places, Great Bahama, Lignum Vltae Cay, Bleuthera and Acklin's Island : — 

 Bermuda ; temperate and tropical America ; West Indies ; Old World. Thorn-Apple. 

 Washwoman's Bush. 



2. Datura M6tel L. Sp. PI. 179. 1753. 



Annual, finely glandular-pubescent, 1-3 m. high. Leaves broadly ovate, 

 acute, inequilateral, rounded or subcordate at the base, 1-2.5 dm. long; flow- 

 ers white, 1.5-1.8 dm. high; calyx about one-half as long as the corolla; 

 capsule globose or ovoid-globose, nodding, obtuse, prickly and pubescent, 2.5-4 

 cm. in diameter. 



Waste grounds, Andros and Inagua : — southern United States ; West Indies ; 

 Mexico and tropical America ; Old World tropics. Peickly-bue. 



3. Datura fastudsa L. Syst. ed. 10, 932. 1759. 



Annual, nearly glabrous; stem erect, branched, 1-2 m. high. Leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate to elliptic, 5-17 cm. long, acute or acuminate, undulate or 



