NAT. ORDER. 
SolanaceoB. 
NOLANA PROSTRATA. TRAILINa NOLANA. 
Class V. Pentandria. Order I. Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Corolla, plicate in aestivation, five lobed. Stamens, five 
adnate to the tube of the Corolla. Ovaria, one to five, or more 
crowded, seated on a fleshy annular disk. Stigma, carpitate. 
Drupe, solitary, or five tog-ether. 
Sjie. Char. Stems, prostrate. Leaves, ovate-oblong". Calyx, pyra- 
. midal, with triang-ularly sagitate seg^mentSj furnished with spur- 
like processes at the base. 
The calyx is a one-leafed perianthium, turbinate at the base, five- 
parted, five-cornered ; the segments cordate, acute, and permanent ; 
the corolla is one petalled, bell-shaped, plaited, spreading", and some- 
what five-lobed, and twice as larg"e as the calyx ; the stamens have 
five awl-shaped filaments, which are erect, equal, and shorter than the 
corolla ; the anthers sagitate ; the pistillum is similar to five roundish 
g"erms ; the style is among" the germs, cylindric, straig-ht, and about the 
leng-th of the stamens ; stigma, capitate ; the j^ejicatp, properly none ; 
the drupes are five in number, decumbent, and three or five-celled ; 
the seeds are five, with a succulent rind, roundish, with the inner base 
naked, immersed in the receptacle, two-celled and four-celled, and 
solitary ; the rooZ is annual, simple, filiform, about three feet long, and 
blackish ; the stem is from a foot to a foot and a half long, herbaceous, 
prostrate, roundish, very smooth, and spotted with white dots over its 
surface ; the branches are alternate, the lower ones about the length 
of the stalk ; the leaves are alternate, two together, reflex rombovate, 
quite entire, blunt, somewhat fleshy, an inch long, somewhat papulose. 
Vol. IV.— 46. 
