Physalis. | XCI, SOLANACE (WRIGHT). 247 
Annual, 
Leaves densely villous; corolla spotted. . 2. P. pubescens. 
Leaves giabrous; corolla unspotted : 5 . 3. P. angulata, 
Perennial; leaves densely hairy ; corolla spotted - 4. BP. peruviana, 
1. P. minima, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 183. A much-branched 
sparingly villous herb, about 1 ft. high. Leaves ovate, or subcordate, 
acuminate, entire or sinuate-dentate, 1} in. long, # in. wide; petiole 
slender, } in, long. Flowers solitary ; pedicels slender, inserted by 
the side of the petioles. Calyx-tube campanulate, ? lin. long, enlarging 
in fruit to } in. in diam., becoming glabrous and angular. Corolla 
narrowly campanulate, yellow, not spotted, 3 lin. long, 24 lin. in diam., 
shortly d-lobed. Filaments 14 lin. long, filiform; anthers oblong, 
¢ lin. long, yellow. Ovary globose; style 14 lin. long, slightly thickened 
upwards ; stigma subcapitate; berry globose, + in. in diam., smooth. 
—Dunal in DC. Prodr, xiii. i. 445; Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 466 ; Hook. 
f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 238; Engl. Pil. Ost-Afr. C. 351; Hiern in Cat. 
Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 750; C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 106. 
P. angulata, R. Br. in Speke, Nile, App. 641, not of Linn. P. equata, 
Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soe. xxix. 119, not of Jacq. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Roger, 132! Sierra Leone, Scott-Elliot, 4086! 
Lagos, Rowland ! Dawodu, 289! Siberia: Grant’s Farm, Sinoe River, Whyte / 
Gold Coast, Burton § Cameron! Togo: near Lome, Warnecke, 192! Southern 
Nigeria: Attah (Idda) on the Niger, Vogel, 66! Old Calabar, Holland, 14° 
Cameroons : Batanga, Bates, 119! 
Nile Land. Eritrea, Schweinfurth & Riva, 593! Niamniam, Schweinfurth, 
2486! 3680! Uganda, Wilson, 150! Whyte! Unyoro, Speke & Grant! 
Lower Guinea, Lower Congo: Lutete, Hens, A, 262! Angola: various 
localities, Welwitsch, 6026 ! 6055! 6036 ! 6057! 6058! 6059! 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi and its Delta, 
Mazzaro and Shupanga, Kirk / Morambala and Vicente, Scott! British Central 
Africa : Nyasaland ; Namasi, Cameron! Zomba Plains, Whyte ! 
2. P. pubescens, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1,183. An annual pubescent 
much-branched herb. Stem erect or procumbent, 1-2 ft. high. 
Leaves ovate or cordate, unequal at the base, from nearly ane to 
Coarsely toothed, densely villous, sometimes glabrescent, about 2 in. 
long. Flowers pendulous; pedicels 3-5 lin. long. Calyx in flower 
campanulate, in fruit ovoid-acuminate, retuse at the base ; lobes long- 
acuminate from a triangular base. Corolla dull yellow spotted with 
purplish-brown at the base, not exceeding } in. in diam. Anthers 
Violet.—Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 446; Sendtn. in Mart. F). Bras. 
x. 132; A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ii. i. 234; Dewevre in Compe 
rendus Soc. But. Belg. xxxiii. 103. P. barbadensis, Jacq. Mise. ii. 359, 
and Te. t. 39.— Solanum vesicurium virginianum, etc., Moris. Hist. iii. 
527, § 13, t. 3, tig. 24. 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Lemaire. 
Mozamb. vist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland; Blantyre, Descamps. 
