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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 (Solanum), to tubular (Atropa), to funnel- 
shaped (Tobacco), and so (1) open to all comers, or (2) to bees or 
wasps, or (3) to butterflies, moths; color, greenish-yellow, or 
greenish-white, to white, to pink, crimson, purple, rarely blue; sta¬ 
mens five, epipetalous, hypogynous, along with style usually forming 
nectar glands. Filaments short to long, anthers dehiscing longi¬ 
tudinally or by apical pores; pistil bicarpellate, syncarpous, with 
or without nectar girdle; superior ovary, two-celled with central 
placentation, ovules numerous, style more or less elongate with 
bilobed or bifid stigma. Fruit, a capsule (Tobacco, Thornapple, 
Henbane) dehiscing longitudinally or transversely; or a berry 
(potato, egg-plant, tomato, red pepper). Seeds albuminous. 
Official drug 
Part used 
Botanical origin 
Habitat 
Central and 
Belladonnae Folia 
Leaves 
Atropa Belladonna 
Southern Europe 
Belladonnae Radix Root 
Atropa Belladonna 
Asia Minor and 
Persia 
Stramonium 
Leaves 
Datura Stramonium 
and D. Tatula 
Asia and Tropical 
America 
Hyoscyamus 
Leaves and 
flower tops 
Hyoscyamus niger 
. Europe, Asia 
Solanum N.F. 
Ripe fruit 
Solanum carolinense 
United States 
Capsicum 
Fruit 
Capsicum frutescens 
Tropical America 
Dulcamara N.F. 
Twigs and stems 
Solanum Dulcamara 
Europe and Asia 
Unofficial 
Duboisia 
Leaves 
Duboisia myoporoides Australia 
Tabacum 
Leaves 
Nicotiana tabacum 
Tropical America 
Scopola 
Rhizome 
Scopola Carniolica 
Alps and 
Carpathian Mts. 
Manaca 
Root 
Brunfelsia Hopeana 
Tropical America 
Paprika 
Fruit 
Capsicum annuum 1 
varieties , 
i America? culti- 
1 vated 
Pimiento 
Fruit 
Variety of Capsicum 
annuum 
Spain 
