248 XCI. SOLANACEH (WRIGHT). [Physalis. 
3. P. angulata, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i, 183. A much-branched 
annual, up to 2 ft. high. Stem angular, green. Leaves ovate, acute 
or acuminate, coarsely serrate, up to 3 in. long and 2 in. wide, glabrous, 
sometimes minutely puberulous on the under surface of the nerves ; 
petiole 1-2 lin.long. Calyx campanulate, in fruit 5-angled and nearly 
1 in. in diam.; lobes broad triangular, about as long as the tube. 
Corolla campanulate, uniformly yellow; lobes 5, acute. Anthers pale 
blue. Berry at first green, finally becoming yellowish-green.—Dunal 
in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 448; Sendt. in Mart. Fl. Bras. x. 130.—Alkekengi 
indicum glabrum, etc., Dill. Hort. Elth. 13, t. 12. 
Upper Guinea. Sierre Leone, Vogel, 14! Gold Coast : Cape Coast Castle, 
Vogel, 51! Yogo: near Lome, Warnecke, 255! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 
$29! Kuka, Vogel, 44! 54! Niger, Baikie, 8! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda, Gossweiler, 354! 
A plant bearing a striking resemblance to this species but differing in having a 
spotted corolla, was collected at Attah (Idda) on the Quorra (Niger), by Vogel, 37. 
4. P. peruviana, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1670. Herbaceous or 
suffruticose from a perennial rootstock, with simple white hairs on the 
stem, leaves and outside of the calyx. Stem erect, branched, sulcate 
when dry. Leaves cordate, acuminate, entire or irregularly dentate- 
sinuate, 3-4 in. long, 24-3 in. wide; petiole up to 2} in. long. Flowers 
solitary on cernuous peduncles } in. long, arising just outside the leaf- 
axils. Caiyx in flower } in. in diam., campanulate with 5 lanceolate 
acute lobes } in. long, in fruit shortly ovoid, acuminate, 1} in. long, 
lf in. in diam. Corolla } in. in diam., rotate-campanulate, slightly 
5-lobed, pale yellow with 5 large dark purple spots at the base of the 
lobes. Stamens inserted near the corolla-base ; filaments filiform, 2 lin. 
long; anthers oblong, obtuse, 13 lin. long. Ovary globose ; style 
cylindrical, 4 in. long; stigma subcapitate. Berry globose, $ in. 1D 
diam., glabrous.—Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 440; Benth. Fl. Austr. 
iv. 466; C, B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 238; C. H. Wright 
in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 106. P. tomentosa, Medic. Act. Acad. Theod. 
Palat. iv. Phys. (1780) 184, t. 4, not of Thunb. nor Walt. P. incana, 
Hort. Par. ex Dunal, lc. P. edulis, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1068. P. 
pubescens, Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 88, not of Linn. 
Wile Land. Uganda: Kikuyu and on the road to Eldama Ravine, 4000-6000 
ft., Whyte / British East Africa: near Nairobi, Whyte! Mombasa, Wakefield! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Stanley Pool, Hens, B, 97! Angola : 
Malange, Gossweiler, 1104! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland, Blantyre, Scott if 
Throughout the tropics, probably a native of South America. Naturalised in 
South Africa. 
3. WITHANTA, Paugq.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 893. 
Calyx campanulate, 5-6-toothed, enlarged and inflated in fruit. 
Corolla narrowly campanulate, 3-6-fid; lobes valvate. Stamens I~ 
