353 



(3) D. FASiuosA. (Linn.) 



ident. Linn. Spec. p. 256.— Dec. prod. XIII. p. I. p. 542. ■— 

 feoxb. flor. Ind. I. p. 561. 



Stfn. Stramonium fastuosum, Mcench. 



Etigrav. Wight's Icon, t, 1396.— Rheede Mai. II. t. 29, 30. 



Spec. Char. Shrub : leaves ovate acuminate, repand-dentatei 

 Unequal at the base, and like the stems puberulous : fruit drooping* 

 tubercled : flowers very large, outside dark purple, inside whitish. 



Common about Coimbatore and every part of the country, flower- 

 ing all the year. 



GENUS V. HYOSCTAMUS. 



Pentandria Honogynla. Sex: Spsh 



Deriv. From Hyos, a hog, and Ky'amas, a bean ; the fruit i9 

 teaten by swin6. 



Gen. Chae. Calyx urceolate, 5-toothed : corolla ftomel-shaped, 

 limb plicate, 5-lobed, lobes unequal': stamens inserted at the bot- 

 tom of the tube of the corolla, included or exserted, declinate, 

 anthers dehiscing lengthwise : ovary 2-ceUed, many-ovuled : style 

 simple : stigma capitate : capsules hidden by the persistent calyx, 

 narrowed from a ventricose base, membranaceous, 2-celled, cut 

 round at the top, lid 1- 2-celled : seeds many, kidney-shaped or 

 orbicular. 



(1) H. NIGER. (Linn.) 



Ident. Linn. Spec. 257. — Dec. prod. XIII. p. 1. p. 546. 



Spec Char. Stem viscous, branched : leases oblong, sinuately 

 toothed or sinuate-pinnatifld, viscously pubescent, lower ones peti- 

 'oledj the rest half-stem-claspingj subdecurrent : flowers subsessile, 

 erect, arranged in simple, unilateral, recurved, leafy terminal spikes : 

 corollas reticulately veined. 



Var. Agrestis, (Nees.) — Stem simple, few-flowered : root annual s 

 flowers largish, minutely reticulated with purple veins on a pale 

 rose-coloured and yellowish ground, marked with a dark purple 

 throat. — H. agrestis. Kit. — Sweet, fl. Gard. I. t. '21.— H. niger. 

 Wall.— Roxb. flor. Ind. Ed. Car. II. p. 237.— Bot. Mag. 50. t, 

 2394. 



Futteyghur. Delhi, Sasseram. Flowering in February au(? 

 March* / 



