bent round like a bow, a little above their insertion, smooth,
and tapering upn'ards, inserted in the back of the anthers;
anthers two-lobed, the lobes thick and blunt. Ovarium,
pyramidal, smooth and glossy, seated on an orange-coloured
receptacle. Style smooth, slightly exserted. Stigma green,
capitate, or a little clavate, furrowed through the centre, so
as to be slightly two-lobed.
Our drawing was made from fine, specimens sent to us
by A. B. Lambert, Esq. in whose splendid collection at
Boyton, it flowered in June last, and is likely to continue
in bloom nearly all the Summer. It was raised from seeds
received from Chile, last year, and is a great acquisition to
our gardens, as its flowers are very sweet-scented as well
as beautiful, the flowers expanding most in the evening, but
ours continued more or less expanded all the day; from
its appearance, we believe it will prove perennial, if protected
a little in Winter, the same as N. suaveolens, (N. un-
dulata of Ventenat,) a New Holland species, to which the
present plant is somewhat related, but is sufficiently distinct;
if sown in a little heat early in Spring, or in a warm border,
it will flower the same year, and may then be treated as an
annual; but if not in a warm situation, it will scarcely flower
in time to ripen its seeds, so that it would be well to protect
a few plants of it in frames, or in the Greenhouse, in pots,
through the Winter; or if planted in a warm border, and
covered with a garden pot in severe frost, or a little hay or
straw, it will most probably succeed very well, in the same
manner as Petunia nyctaginiflora, which has stood with us
three Winters, in a warm border, with no other protection
than a mat thrown up against it when the frost has been
severe, and it has never had a single leaf injured, and is
covered with its handsome white flowers from May till
November, hundreds being open on it every day; we have
succeeded well in protecting several rather tender plants
by placing a pot over them in frosty weather; and where
the plants are low, we stuff the pots with hay.
The genus was named by Tournefort, after Jean Nicot,
Ambassador from France to Portugal, from whence he
brought the Tobacco plant, in 1560.
1. Calyx, showing its transparent side,s between the angles. 2. Tube o f the
Corolla spread open, showing the insertion o f the 5 Stamens. 3. Ovarinm,
terminated by the Style and Stigma.
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