■ Batv/ra.] , cii. solanaceji. (C. B. Clarke.) 243 



Idrmcea, 1833, Litt. 141 ; Dalz. Sr Gibs. Bomb. Fl. I7i.—Itheede Sort. Md. 

 2, t. 28 ; JRumph. Merb. Amb. v. t. 87, fig. 2. 



Throughout India ; in -waste places, a weed. — Distbie. Malaya, Tropical Africa. 

 In America said to be not a native. 



Generally resembling D. Strmnonium ; but the flowers are usually larger. Calyx 

 attaining 3 in. Corolla 1 in. and 5 in. diam. across the mouth. Capsule, 1 J in. diam., 

 subglobose, equally spinous on all sides. 



Vak. alba ; flowers white or nearly so. D. alba, Sees in Trans. Linn. Soo. xvii. 

 73 ; Wight Ic. t. 852 ; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 542 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 174. D. Metel, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 661 ; Wall. Cat. 2639, not of Linn.—Bumph. Herb. 

 Arab. v. t. 87, fig. 1. — Throughout India. — Distrib. of h.fastiMsa. 



Yi.s. ? diubia ; fruit without spines. D. dubia, (?. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 474. D. 

 Hummatu, liar, a dubia, Benih. in Linntsa, 1833, Littl. 141. D. Nilhummatu, Dunal 

 in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 542 Sheede Hort. Mai. ii. tt. 29, 33. — W. Deccan Penin- 

 sula ? — This species is founded on the figures of Eheede, which represent possibly one 

 of the foreign smooth-fruited species, none of which are wild in India ; hence 

 Bemhard appended Rheede's plant as a var. of a species which is always spinous so 

 far as known. 



3. D, nietel, Linn. ; Bernh. in Linn. 1883, 2^'ii. 143; leaves ovate entire 

 or deeply toothed pubescent, corolla whitish purple downwards limb 10-toothed, 

 capsule nodding. Bat. Mag. t. 1440 ; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 643. — 

 Rwnph. Herb. Amb. v. t. 243. 



"W. Himalaya and Mts. of W. Deccan Peninsdia; introduced? — Distbib. 

 Tropical America ; widely naturalised in the Old World. 



8. SCOPOXiXA, Jacq. 



Erect, glabrsEcent herhs. Leaves entire. Pedicels a^xillary, solitary. Flowers 

 lurid, nodding. Calyx large, campanulate, subtruncate or shortly lohed ; in 

 fruit enlarged, overtopping the capsule. Corolla widely campanulate, plaited ; 

 lobes short, scarcely imbricate. Stamens 5, attached near the base of the 

 corolla; filaments filiform, somewhat dilated near the base; anthers ovate, 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary sub-2-celled ; style linear, stigma thick 

 dilated. Capsule globose, circumsciss above the middle. Seeds many, reni- 

 form, granulate ; embryo peripheric. — Species 3 ; 1 European, 1 Japanese, 1 

 Himalayan. 



S. lurida, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 655 ; leaves large petioled 

 ovate-lanceolate, corolla wide distinctly lobed, fruit-calyx large reticulated 

 limb very shortly lobed. Physalis stramonifolia, TFaW. Cat. 2632, and in Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. ed. Carey Sr Wall. ii. 242. Nicandra anomala. Link. S/- Otto Ic. Sel. 

 77, t. 36. Anisodus luridans, lAnh Sr Otto in note, I. c. ; Nees in Trans. lAnn. 

 Soc. xvii. 72 ; Miers III. 8. Amer. PI. ii., App. 18, t. 78. A. stramonifolius, 

 G. Don in Loud. Sort. Brit. 61. Whitleya stramonifolia, Sweet Brit. Fl. 

 Gard. t. 125. 



Centeai, Himaxaya ; Nepal, Wallich ; Sikkim, near Ging, alt. 5000 ft.. Dr. 

 Tretttler. 



Branches 3-6 ft., sparingly divided; rusty-tomentose when young, later puberulous 

 or glabrate. Leaves 8 by 3 in., acute at both ends, ultimately glabrate ; petiole J in. 

 Fedimcles 1 in. Calyx in flower | in., in fruit attaining 2 by 1^ in. ; lobes short, 

 irregular. Corolla IJ by | in., lurid yellow or greenish purple. Ovary 2-C6lled, 

 near the top 1-celled. Capsule f in., lid 1-celled, remainder 2-celled. Seeds i in. 



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