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65. ATROPACEJE. 
subsessile. Cor. pale lemon- or sulphur-y. or straw-col., not re- 
ticulately veined, the throat usually (but not always in Mad.) 
deep purple, downy outside, the 3 upper lobes of the limb larger 
and deeper coloured than the 2 lower. Stain, exserted longer 
than the cor. ; til. unequal and with the style purplish upwards; 
anth. large ; pollen pale. Cal. in fr. erect almost wholly secund, 
campanulate somewhat rigid and fleshy enlarged and conspicuous, 
1 in. long, resembling a gr. bell-shaped fi. ; the limb erecto- 
patent, disclosing the comparatively or entirely smooth top of 
the caps, which comes off circumscissilely like a lid. Seeds 
flattened angular reticulately scabrous light brown. 
The root in the Mad. pi. is merely ann., in which respect 
alone it differs from the descriptions by Dunal and Gren. et 
Godr. of their II. major. 
tttTribe VI. Nicotianece. 
ttf7. Hicotiana L. 
* Caps. 2-valvate. 
ftfl- N. Tabacum L. Tobacco. Tabaca (pi. Tabaqueira). 
Herbaceous viscoso-pubescent full or dark gr. ; st. round erect 
virgate, branched upwards ; 1. large, broadly oblong-lanceolate, 
acute or sub acuminate, sessile and amplexicaul or wingedly pe- 
tiolate decurrent ; fl. stalked in bracteolate terminal loosely co- 
rvmbiform or paniculate subracemose cymes; cor. viscoso- 
pubescent outside, infundibuliform, tube clavate not constricted 
at top, 3 times the length of cal., inflato-clavate for ^ its length 
downwards below the limb, pale greenish, throat and limb p. or 
rose-col., limb spreading or reflexed 5-gonal, lobes shallow very 
acute or shortly acuminate ; caps, subexserted the length of or 
a little longer than the cal. — Linn. Sp. 258; Lam. Illustr. 
no. 2280, t. 113 ; Poir. in Diet. iv. 477 ; Desf. i. 189; Pers. i. 
217 ; Ait. II. K. i. 390 ; Fydell’s List no. 115 ; Spr. i. 615; Coss. 
et Germ. 276 ; J. A. Schm. Fl. Yerd. 234 ; Griseb. \V. I. Fl. 
434 ; Willk. et Lange ii. 535. V. Tabacum et N. latissima 
Koch 586. Ilyoscyamvs peruvianas Ger. Herb. 285, f. 1. JY. 
major lati folia Moris. Hist. ii. 492, t. 2. § 5. f. 1. — Herb. ann. or 
bien. Mad. reg. 1,|. Vineyards, gardens and waste ground 
about houses.in and about Funchal and most towns or villages in 
the island. At almost all seasons. — St. 2-3 or 4 ft. high hal’d 
stiff' gr. L. soft flaccid dark or full gr. with impressed nerves 
above, paler and brighter gr. beneath with prominent nerves and 
veins. Whole pi. densely but shortly glanauloso-pubescent and 
viscid. L. 6-12 in. long, 3-6 broad, all sometimes petiolate, the 
lower at least mostly sessile ; petioles plicato- or undidato- 
