238 CH. SOLANACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Physalis, 
2. PHYSA LIS, Linn. 
Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, entire sinuate or shortly lobed. 
Pedicels axillary, solitary. Calyx campanulate, 5-fid half-way down; in fruit 
greatly enlarged, loosely enclosing the fruit ; teeth small, connivent. Corolla 
campanulate, lurid-yellow, sometimes with purple spots below. Stamens 5, 
attached near the base of the corolla; anthers oblong, shorter than the 
filaments, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled; style linear, stigma 
obscurely 2-lobed. Berry globose. Seeds many or few, smooth or tuberculate- 
rugose, compressed; embryo peripheric.—Species 30, mostly of Tropical 
America, several introduced in the Old World. 
1. P. minima, Linn. ;. Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 69; leaves ovate 
sinuate angular or scarcely lobed, corolla 4 in., fruit-calyx j-1 in. ovoid or 
subglobose. Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 563; Wall. Cat. 2633; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xin. 
pt. i. 445. P. parviflora, Br. Prodr. 447; Dunal l.c. 444. P. divaricata, Don 
Prodr. 97 ; Dunal l.c. 444. P. villosa, Roth Nov. Sp. 199. P. Rothiana, 
Roem. § Sch. Syst. iv. 077. P. Hermanni, Dunal. l.c. 444. P. pubescens, 
Wight Ill. t. 166 b. fig. 6, not of Linn.— Rheede Hort. Mal. x. t. 71. 
Throughout Inp1a, in the tropical region; common.—DrsrRre. Tropical Asia, 
Africa and. Australia. . 
An herbaceous, pubescent annual. Leaves 2 in.; petiole 1 in. Pedicels 4-4 1 
Calyx at flower-time 3-2 in.; lobes lanceolate, half the length of the calyx, often 
hirsute, sometimes glabrescent. Corolla clear yellow; or, in the less common torm 
(P. Hermanni), spotted within at the base. Berry 4 in. diam.; fruit-calyx globose, ő- 
or 10-ribbed. Seeds very many, i; in. diam., discoid, reticulated, scarcely scabrous. 
—Roxburgh says that his S. pubescens was the same as P. peruviana. The sheet of 
Rottler’s marked S. pubescens by Heyne is P. minima with one piece of S. peruviana 
mixed. 
Van. indica ; glabrescent, fruiting calyx 5-angular. Lamk. Dict.ii. 102; Nees 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 70 ; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 443. P. pseudo-angulata, 
Blume Bijd. 706; Dunal l.c. 444. P. angulata, Wall. mss.; Griff. Notul. v. 96. 
Nicandra indica, Roem. 4 Sch. iv. 682.—Rheede Hort. Mal. x. t. 70.— Throughout 
Innra. The true P. angulata, Linn., occurs only cultivated in India. 
2. P. peruviana, Linn.; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 67; leaves 
ovate sinuate angular or scarcely lobed, corolla 4 in., fruit-calyx 1-1} in. ovoid 
conic. Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 562 ; Wall. Cat. 2634; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. 
i. 440; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Append. 61. P. edulis, Sims Bot. Mag. t- 
1068. P. pubescens, Don Prodr. 97. 
. Throughout Ispa, cultivated.— DISTRIB. 
sively cultivated in the Old World. : 
Resembling P. minima, but stouter, flowers and fruit-calyx larger, usually villous 
or pubescent. Corolla with 5 large l ts ithin.—Cape Goose 
berry of the English denizens, rge purple spots near the base within p 
Indigenous in Tropical America; exten- 
2*. CAPSICUM, Linn. 
Annual or perennial herbs, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves entire or repand. 
Pedicels axillary or 2-3 together. Calyx campanulate, subentire or minutely 
5-toothed, much shorter than the fruit. Corolla rotate ; lobes 5, valvate 1? 
bud. Stamens 5, attached near the base of the corolla; anthers not longer 
than the filaments, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2- rarely 3-celled ; style 
linear, stigma subcapitate. Berry very variable in form and size, many 
