242 ■ en. SOLASACB*. (C. B. Clarke.) [Mcmdragora. 



lol)es broad, imbricate in bud, sinuses induplicate-valvate. Stamens 5, filaments 

 linear; anthers oblong, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled; style 

 elongate, stigma much dilated. Berry globose, juicy. Seeds very many, com- 

 pressed ; embryo peripheric. — Species 3 or 4 of the Mediterranean region, and 

 the following. 



m. caulescens, Clarke ; branches 4-8 in., leaves narrov^ly obovate- 

 oblong sinuate, calyx-lobes triangular ovate. Anisodus humilis, JSooik. f. ms. 



AiprfTE SiKBXsr, alt. 12-13,000 ft. ; Lachen and Tmigu, J. D. H. 



Pubescent or nearly glabrous. Leaves 11 by 2 in., obtuse, base much tapering. 

 Pedicels 1—3 in. ; many-fascicled at the apex of the caudex. Cciyx-lobes in fruit 

 I in., subobtuse. Berry | in. diam. Seeds i in. diam. — The examples are in fruit ; 

 and appear closely aUi^ to M. officinarum, Linn. 



7. DATVRA, Linn. 



Coarse, rank-scented herbs (the Indian species), glabrous or minutely pubes- 

 cent. Leaves large, entire annate or deeply toothed. Pedicels solitary; 

 flovyers very large, purple or vyhite. Calyx long-tubular, herbaceous, 5-toothed 

 at the apex ; in fruit circumsciss above the base. Corolla long tubular-funnel- 

 shaped, mouth wide ; limb plaited, entire or shortly lobed. Stamens attached 

 near the base of the tube, maments filiform ; anthers included, linear, longitu- 

 dinally dehiscent. Ovary 2- or spuriously 4H;elled ; style filiform, stigma 

 2-lobed. Capsule ellipsoid, 4r<;eUed, spinous (in the Indian species, except in 

 D.fastuosa, var. dubia), 4-valved or irregnilarly breaking up near the apex. 

 Seeds very many, compressed, rugose ; embryo peripheric. — Species 10 ; tem- 

 perate and tropical regions. 



Sect. I. Stramonium. Capsule deeply 4-vaIved, often nearly to the 

 base. 



1. D, Stramonium, Linn. ; Bemk. in Linruen, 1833, Litt. 139 ; glabrous 

 or farinose puberulous, leaves ovate toothed or sinuate, corolla white teeth 5 

 linear, capsule equally spinous on aU sides. Wall. Cat. 2637, and in Ro.vb. Fl. 

 Ind. ed. Carey |- WM. ii. 239; Dunal in BC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 540; iS^»?ie 

 Eng. Bat. t. 935 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 292 ; Bentl. ^ Trim. Med. PI. t. 192. 

 D. ferox, Kees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 75, not of Linn. D. WaUiehii, 

 Dunal I. c. 539. Stramonium vulgatum, Gaertn. Fmct. ii. 243, t. 132, fig. 4. 



Tbmpekate Himalaya ; from Kashmir, Thomson, to Sikkim, J. D. H. — DftTEiB. 

 Nearly throughout the globe, in temperate and warm climates. 



A coarse annual, 2- 6 ft. Leave.': 7 by 4 in. ; petiole 1 in. Pedicels 0-^ in. 

 Calyx 1-lf by J-J in. ; lobes | in., ovate-lanceolate. Corolla 3-6 in., mouth 1^ in. 

 diam. ; lobes ^ in. Capsule Ij by 1 in. ; spines f in., subulate ; calyx-base i in., 

 persistent. 



Vae. Tatvla ; floTvers purple without and within. D. Tatula, Willd. Sp. PI. i. 

 1008 ; Sweet Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 83 ; Wall. Cat. 2640 ; Bemh. in Linruea, 1833, LUt. 

 140. — Throughout India. — Distrib. Nearly as of D. Stramonium, from which it is 

 not easily separable. 



Sect. n. Dutra. Capsvle subindehiscent, or irregularly dehiscent near 

 the apex. 



2. D. fastuosa, Linn. ; Wight Ic. t. 1396 ; leaves ovate entire or deeply 

 toothed glabrous, corolla purple limb shortly 5-6-toothed. capsule nodding or 

 suberect. Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 561 ; Wall. Cat. 2639 ; l^ees in I'rans. Linn. Soc. 

 xvii. 74; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 542. D. Hummatu, Bemh. in 



