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LXXXV. CONVOLVULACEJ3. 
[Cusruta. 
3. C. europaea (of Europe), l.inn. European or Great Dodder. Flowers 
aggregate, nearly sessile. Calyx shortly obeonic, with bluntisli segments. 
•Corolla urceolate, campanulate, white, usually 4-cleft, and tetrandrous some- 
times .5-cleft and pentandrous, no epipetalous scales, throat naked. Stigmas 
acute, filiform. Capsule about 1 line diameter. Seeds usually 4, ellipsoid, brown. 
Hab.: An European pest, too common on Lucerne. 
4. C. epithymum (upon Thyme). The Lesser Dodder. Flowers fascicled, 
more crowded than in • europaa, nearly sessile, 5 or frequently 4 -cleft and 
tetrandrous. Epipetalous scales crescent-shaped, crenulate. Calyx reddish. 
•Corolla white, campanulate, with acute segments. Stigmas acute. 
Hab.: An European pest. On A plum leptophyllum, Toowoomba. 
Order LXXXYI. SOLANACEiE. 
Flowers regular or nearly so. Calyx free, usually with 5, rarely with 4, 
6 or 10 teeth lobes or segments. Corolla tvith 5 or rarely with 4 teeth or lobes, 
induplicate-plicate or rarely imbricate in the bud. Stamens as many as lobes of 
the corolla and alternate with them ; anthers various, usually 2-celled. Ovary 
superior, 2-celled or rarely spuriously 4-celled or abnormally 3 or more-celled ; 
style simple, terminal, with an entire or lobed stigma. Fruit an indehiscent 
berry or rarely a capsule, with several seeds. Embryo usually curved or spiral, 
surrounding a fleshy albumen, rarely straight in the centre of the albumen. — 
Herbs shrubs or soft-wooded trees. Leaves alternate, without stipules. Flowers 
solitary or in centrifugal cymes or unilateral racemes, usually at first terminal 
but becoming lateral by the elongation of the shoot, rarely axillary, the cymes 
or racemes usually without bracts, and no bracteoles on the pedicels. 
A numerous Order in the tropical and warmer regions of the globe, and more especially S. 
America, with a comparatively few species straying into more temperate districts both in the 
northern and the southern hemisphere. 
Tribe I. Solanese. — Corolla-limb plaited or the lobes valrate. Fruit a berry. Seeds much 
compressed, subdiscoid. Embryo peripheric. 
Leaves pinnate ; pinnae toothed or lyrate. Anthers opening in slits . . . 1. ‘Lycopersicum. 
Leaves entire, lobed or pinnatifid. Anthers opening in terminal pores or 
slits 2. Sol.anum. 
Calyx inflated over the fruit, shortly lobed. Anthers opening in longi- 
tudinal slits. Pedicels solitary 3. Physalis. 
Calyx small. Corolla deeply 5-fid ; lobes valvate. Pedicels solitary or in 
pairs • 4 . ‘Capsicum. 
Calyx inflated over the fruit. Corolla wide-campanulate, shortly lobed, 
cordate at the base. Pedicels solitary 5.*Nicandra. 
Tribe II. Atropese. — Corolla-lobes more or less imbricate. Fruit a berry. Seeds com- 
pressed. Embryo peripheric. 
Calyx small. Corolla contracted into a tube at the base, the lobes imbricate 
in the bud 6. Lycium. 
Tribe III. Kyoscyamete. — Corolla-lobes plaited or imbricate. Fruit capsular. Seeds 
somewhat compressed. Embryo peripheric. 
Flowers solitary. Calyx tubular, circumsciss. Capsule 4-celled, 4-valved 
or subindehiscent 7. Datura. . 
Tribe IV. Cestrineae. — Corolla-lobes induplicate-valvate. Fruit capsular. Seeds scarcely 
compressed. Embryo straight. 
Calyx 5-fid. Corolla funnel-shaped, 5-lobed. Stamens attached in the 
lower part of the corolla-tube 
8. Nicotiaxa. 
