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10. NicANDRA Physaloides. " Ean Popatee," Don's syst. 4, 

 ^W ; Jaq. Obs. t. 9S. — Native of Peru and Chili, but now grows 

 wild in waste places in India. 



NICOTIANA, Pentandria Monogynia. In honour of Nicot, 

 once French Ambassador in Portugal. Gaert. t. 55 ; Tourn. 

 t.A\; Lam. t. 113. 



11. N Tabacum, Don's syst. 4, p 462; Blackwell t. 146.— 

 Tobacco Plant; cultivated to a large extent in the Deccan and 

 Gujarat. The crops are frequently injured by a parasite (Orobanche 

 indica.) From Gujarat, especially from Neriad, much Tobacco is 

 exported to Sind. The best Tobacco grown in the Presidency 

 next to that of Bilsa, in Malwa, is that raised on the deep alluvial 

 lands near the Krishna River. The varieties, N longifolia and N 

 rustica, the Havannah and Persian, are sometimes grown for 

 private use, and are certainly superior in flavour to the common 

 kinds ; but whether this superiority is to be permanently maintained, 

 is a different question. 



12. N Glauca. — Native of Buenos Ayres, Grab, in Bot. Mag. 

 2837. — A tall erect species, glabrous ; leaves unequally cordate 

 ovate with yellow flowers; is merely ornamental ; garden Dapoorie. 

 In the above enumeration we have included N longifolia and 

 persica as one species with N tabacum. We feel doubtful, however, 

 whether they (at least the last, N persica) should not have been 

 separated. The Jibbel Tobacco is more like in habit and appear- 

 ance to N longifolia than to N persica. 



13. Hyosciamos Niger, Pentandria Monogynia. Herbaceous; 

 the whole plant clothed with clammy villas ; leaves stem-clasping, 

 grossly serrate ; corolla lurid, purple variegated with white sessile 

 on lateral and terminal spikes ; seed-vessel round, obovate acumi- 

 nate, containing many small seeds. This plant, a native of Europe, 

 is successfully cultivated at Hewra and Dapoorie for supply of the 

 Medical Stores. The favourite time for cultivation is the cold 

 season, when it may be sown either broad-cast or in beds for trans- 

 plantation, but the former is most easy and effective. It requires 

 high manuring to produce leaves in quantity. We have seen 

 bullocks die from feeding on the leaves. The seed imported from 

 Cabul or Persia is sold by the native druggists in Bombay under 

 the name of " Khorasany Ajwan." They are used as a narcotic 

 medicine. 



CESTRUM, Pentandria Monogynia. Linn. Gen. No. 261 ; 

 Sch. Gen. No. 342; Gaert. Fr. 1, p 378, t. 11 ; Lam. Illust. t. 112. 



1 4. C CoNGLOMERATUM, (?) Ruiz. and Pavon. Fl. Per. 2, p 29. — 

 A shrub with oblong-lanceolate leaves, and corolla of a greenish- 

 yellow, having a longish tube, with segments of laciniae erect acute. 

 Garden Hewra. Native of Brazil ; has not seeded. 



