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65 . ATROPACE2E. 
ttt Tribe VI. NICOTIAXEJE. 
The Tobacco Tribe. 
Cal. herbaceous or leafy, altogether persistent and enlarged 
in fr. Cor. hypocrateriform or tubular-infundibuliform. Anthers 
as in Hyoscyamece. Fr. a capsule 2-celled many-seeded 2- or 
4- or many-valvate at top. feeeds minute, embryo slightly 
curyed or straight, cot. short semiglobose or ovate. — Mostly 
viscid fetid herbs, rarely subarboreous. L. simple large entire. 
FI. subconspicuous. 
ftf7. Nicotiana. Cal. tubular-campanulate 5-tid. Cor. 
infundibuliform or hypocrateriform, limb 5-lobed plicate, 
twisted in bud. Stam. 5 included or exserted. Ov. 2- 
celled many-ovulate with a thick basal obsoletely lobed 
ring (nectary). Stigma capitato-pileate or cap-shaped, 
a 2-glandular within.” Caps, inclosed by the enlarged cal., 
2-celled, many-seeded, 2- or 4- or many-valvate at top, 
valves at length bifid. Seeds oval subreniform rugulose, 
embryo slightly curved. — Herbs or sufi rotes cent, rarely 
subarboreous, mostly clammy downy or pubescent, rarely 
smooth. L. quite entire large. FI. gr. w. y. p. or purple in 
terminal paniculate corymbose or racemose cymes, rarely 
axillary solitary. 
A. Fruit baccate. 
Tribe I. Lycieai. 
1. Lycium L. 
Sect. Br achy cope Miers; lobes of cor. short, one third to one 
half the length of the tube. Stam. mostly subincluded 
or not longer than cor. 
1. L. europium L. Fspinlieiro. 
Shrubby erect smooth spinose, branches spinescent terete 
stiff straight virgate, only the elongated young shoots some- 
times lax and curved or arcuate; 1. fleshy fascicled lanceolate 
or spathulato-lanceolate subacute or obtuse often oblique, finely 
attenuated downwards into short distinct petioles; pedic. short, 
in fr. hamate; cal. subequally 5-toothed or shallowly 5-fid, not 
or only sometimes indistinctly subbilabiate; stam. exserted 
from- the tube, shorter than the cor., style about the same 
length ; cor.-limb and tube (pale greyish lavender-b.) reticulately 
veined, tube 2 or 3 times the length of limb; berry drooping 
globose or ovoidal obtuse or. -red. — Linn. Maut. i. 47, Syst. 
