NICOTIANA glutinosa.
Clammy Tobacco.
Natural Order. S o l a n e æ . J u s s . g e n . \ 2 4 .
Sect. 1. Pericarpium capsulare.
N IC O T IA N A . Calyx tabuloso-campanulatns, quinquefida
». Corolla infnndibuliformis aut hypocrateriformis ; limbo
quinquelobo. Stamina 5 ; antheree longitudinaliter dehiscentes.
Stigma capitatum. Capsula bilocularis, calyce persistente tecta,
septicido-bivalvis ; valvoe bipartibiles ; placenta discretoe,
a dissipimento distantes. Semina creberrima, minuta. Herbæ
aut suffrutices sapissime glutinoso-pilosa. Flores terminales,
racemosi aut panicutati, alòidi, virescentes aut purpurascenies,
Kunth. synops. tom. 2. p. 146.
N. glutinosa, foliis petiolatis ovatis acuminatis cordatis birto-
pilosis glutinosis, floribus racemosis secundis, corollis subin-
fundibuliformibus subringentibus calyxe duplo longioribus :
lobis aontiusculis. K unth. synops. 2. p . 147.
Nicotiana glutinosa. Willden. sp. pi. 1. p. 1015. Ruiz, et
Pav. F l. Peruv. 2. p . 16. Pers. syn. 2. p . 217. Andrews’s
repos. 484.
Annual. Stem erect, much branched, thickly clothed
with short unequal glutinous hairs. Leaves petiolate,
cordate or cordately ovate, taper-pointed, undulate,
entire, thickly clothed on both sides with short hairs,
glutinous: in the bottom leaves the sinuses are overlapped
at the base; in the upper ones distinct. P e tioles
shorter than the leaves, convex on both sides,
very slightly decurrent, thickly clothed with glutinous
hairs, as are the peduncles and calyx. Racemes long,
many-flowered, at first nodding, afterwards becoming
erect Flowers leaning to one side, or sometimes two