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Puysais Eputis. Eatasie Puysatis, or 
Care GoosEBERRY. 
Clafs and Order.’ 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNI A. 
Generic Charafer. 
Cal, 5-fidus. Cor. rotata, 5-fida. Anthere conniventes. Bacca 
Intra calycem inflatum. : 
Specific CharaGer and Synonyms. 
PHYSALIS edulis; pubefcens, caule frutefcente nodofo, 
foliis geminis cordatis acutis et integerrimis et 
undulato-finuatis, floribus fru€tibufque pendulis. 
PHYSALIS pubescens; caule angulato, foliis cordatis dentato- 
angulatis, floribus fru€tibufque pendulis, Flor, 
: Peruv. vol. 2. p. 41. 
PHYSALIS pubefcens. Sp. Pl. 262 ? 
PHYSALIS peruviana; pubefcens, foliis cordatis integerri- 
mis. Sp. Pl. 1670? 
ALKEKENGI virginianum fruétu luteo, vulgo Capuli, Feuiliée 
Hift. des Plantes Medic. p. 5. te 1. : 
Descr. Stem fhrubby, obfoletely angular, branched : 
anches fubdichotomous, ereé&t, fucculent, knotted at the exit 
the leaves. Leaves petiolated, ufually growing by pairs, . 
Ut not oppofite, one always fmaller than the other, cordate, 
acute, rugofe, fometimes quite entire, fometimes undulate- 
. date or unequally toothed. Peduncles folitary, cernuous, 
Inferted without the axils of the petioles. Corolla fubcam- 
Panulate, pale yellow, obfoletely s-lobed, marked near the 
€ with five black-purple fpots. Stamens ereét, connivent. 
alyx of the ripe fruit a dullifh yellow, large, inflated, an- 
Bular, fubovate acuminate, intruded at the bafe, 10-angled, 
alternate angles more faintly marked, 5-toothed: teeth con- 
rivent, and even decuffate. Berry globular, fmooth, yellow, 
fucculent, not fenfibly divided into cells, even when unripe, 
éeds lens-fhaped, neftling in the pulp chiefly, but not ex- 
Clufively, near the furface, Except the berry, every part ie! 
the 
