244 cii. SOLANACEJ!. (C. B. Clarke.) {_PhysocJilmna. 



9. PHYSOCKXiAXNA, G. Don. 



Erect, nearly glabrous herbs. Leaves petioled, aubentire. Corymb terminal. 

 Cali/x campanulate, lobes 5 short ; in fruit elongated, overtopping the capsule. 

 Corolla elongate ; lobes 5, short, imbricate in bud. Stamens attached at the 

 middle of the tube, filaments filiform ; anthers ovate, longitudinally dehiscent. 

 Ovary 2-celled ; style linear, stigma obscurely 2-lobed. Capsule 2-celled ; cir- 

 cumsciss above the middle. Seeds very many, compressed ; embryo peripheric. 

 —Species 4 ; Central Asiatic. 



P. praealta, Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 4600, in note ; leaves ovate-oblong 

 sinuate, corymb compound lax viscid-pubescent, coroUa J-l^^ in., stamens and 

 style equalling the corolla or ^ in. longer. Miers HI. S. Amer. PI. ii. App. 16. 

 P. grandiflora, Hook. f. Bot. Mag. ,t. 4600. Belenia prsealta. Dene, in 

 Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 144, t. 120. Hyoscyamus prsealtus, Walp. JR^. iii. 21. 

 Scopolia prsealta, Dumal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 554. 



N. Kashmie and 'Wbsteen Tibet, alt. 12-18,500 ft., Mimro, Thomson, Strachey ^ 

 Winterbottom, &c. — Disteib. Eashgar and Yarkand. 



Stems 2-4 ft., corymbose upwards. Leaves 4-6 by 3 in., irregular, base cuneate 

 or cordate on the same branch ; petiole 1-4 in. Corymb 2-8 in. diam. ; flowers all 

 pedioelled ; pedicels f-l J in. Calyx in flower ^ in. ; lobes ^ in., lanceolate ; in fruit 

 If by ^ in., striate. Corolla IJ by y in., tubular-funnel-shaped, in the majority of the 

 wild examples, sometimes shorter, funnel-shaped ; in some cultivated examples wider, 

 subcampauulate. Stamens and style distinctly exserted in nearly all the wild examples. 

 Cwpsule J in. diam. Seeds ^ in. diam., scrobiculate-reticulate. 



10. KVOSCYADZUS, Linn. 



Erect, coarse herbs. Leaves sinuate, toothed, or subpinnatifid. Flowers 

 unilateral, sessile or pedicelled, lower axillary solitary, upper forming a dense 

 racemose or subscorpioid cyme, upper leaves bract-like. Corolla lurid, yellow 

 or greenish purple. Calyx Mn-shaped, shortly 5-lobed ; in fruit enlarged, 

 overtopping the capsule. CoroUa funnel-shaped ; limb oblique, 5-fid, lobes 

 more or less unequal, imbricate in bud. Stamens attached about the middle of 

 the coroUar-tube, filaments filiform; anthers exserted or subincluded, oblong, 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, stigma subcapitate. 

 Capsule completely 2-eeUed, or nearly so, circumsciss near the apex. Seeds 

 very many, compressed, scrobiculate ; embryo peripheric Species 9 ; Euro- 

 pean, and extending to Central Asia. 



1. H. nig'er, Linn. ; Boiss. Ft. Orient, iv. 295 ; cauline leaves sessile ovate 

 or oblong sinuate or lobed, flowers subsessile, calyx softly hairy teeth mucronate, 

 corolla 1 in. lurid reticulate-nerved. Wall. Cat. 2636, and in Roxb. Fl. Lnd. 

 ed. Carey Sr Wall. ii. 237 ; JVees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 77 ; Bot. Mag. t. 

 2394; Dvmal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 546 ; Bimtl. ^ Trimen Med. PI. t. 196. 

 H. agrestis, Kitaihel ; Sweet Fl. Gard. t. 27. H. persicus, Buhse Reise Tran^ 

 kauk. 158. 



Tempbeatb Westeen Himalaya, alt. 8-11,000 ft., from Kashmir to Gurwhal; 

 frequent. — Disteib. Europe, W. & N. Asia. 



Pubescent and more or less hairy. Leaves 5 by 2 in. Lower pedicels in fruit 

 scarcely ^ in. Calyx in flower § in., teeth short, triangular ; in fruit 1 by ^ in., 

 subcontracted in the middle, teeth somewhat rigid. Corolla purple in the base, limb 

 lurid green, purple-veined Capsule -J in. diam. Seeds ^ in. diam. 



