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Solanacece or Nightshade Family . — Stem herbaceous rarely shrubby 
or arborescent, frequently with bicollateral bundles. Leaves alter- 
nate, exstipulate, entire, or more or less lobed, rarely compound; 
often glandular-hairy. Flowers in cymes; regular or rarely irregular 
(Petunia, Tobacco sps.), pentamerous, perfect, synphyllous; sepals 
green (rarely petaloid), rotate to tubular, usually persistent and 
accrescent; petals rotate (Solatium), to tubular (Atropa), to funnel- 
shaped (Tobacco), and so (i) open to all comers, or (2) to bees or 
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