418 SOLANACE. 
4, PHYSALIS. 
Physalis, Linn. Gen. Plant. n. 250; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. ii. p. 890. 
Herbs. About thirty species, mostly inhabiting America and chiefly Mexico and 
North America; a few now widely dispersed in the Old World. The Mexican species 
need revision. There are about as many unnamed species in Kew Herbarium as there 
* are names enumerated below. 
1. Physalis equata, Jacq. fil. Eclog. ii. t.137 ; Linnea, xix. p. 309; DC. Prodr. 
xiii. 1, p. 447; A. Gr. Synop. Fl. N. Am. ii. p. 234. 
Texas and New Mexico to Catirornta.—Mexico, near Jalapa (Schiede), Mineral del 
Monte (Ehrenberg), around the city of Mexico (Berlandier).—West INDIES. 
2. Physalis angulata, Linn.; DC. Prodr. xiii. 1, p.448; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. 
Ind. p. 436; A. Gr. in Proc. Am. Acad. x. p. 64, et Synop. Fl. N. Am. ii. p. 234. 
Physalis linkiana, Nees in Linnea, vi. p. 471; DC. Prodr. 1. c. 
A very widely diffused species in tropical countries, including Maxtco and CENTRAL 
America. Hb. Kew. 
3. Physalis capsicifolia, Dene. in DC. Prodr. xiii. p. 449. 
MeExico.—Tropical SourH America. Hb. Kew. 
4, Physalis chenopodiifolia, Lam.; DC. Prodr. xiii. 1, p. 439. 
South Mexico, Oaxaca ((hiesbreght), Tacubaya (Bourgeau, 112), around Toluca 
(Andrieux, 181)—Prru. Hb. Kew. 
5. Physalis cordata, Mill. Dict. n. 15; DC. Prodr. xiii. 1, p. 450. 
Sourn Mexico, Vera Cruz (Houston). 
6. Physalis coztomatl, Mog. et Sessé in DC. Prodr. xiii. 1, p. 450; Calques 
des Dess. Fl. Mex. 916. 
MEeEXIco. 
7. Physalis crassifolia, Benth. Bot. Voy. ‘Sulphur,’ p. 40; A. Gr. Synop. FI. 
N. Am. ii. p. 235. 
Physalis cardiophylla, Torr. Bot. U.S. & Mex. Bound. p. 153. 
CoLoRADO ; CALIFORNIA; ARIZoNA.—NortH Mexico, Sonora (Schott). 
8. Physalis curassavica, Linn. ; DC. Prod. xiii. 1, p. 437. 
Mexico (Berlandier, 1525, 248).—Curacao. 
9. Physalis dentata, Pavon in DC. Prodr. xiii. 1, p. 441. 
MEXICo. 
10. Physalis divaricata, G. Don; Dun. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 1, p. 444. 
Mexico (Berlandier, ex Dunal).—Tropical Arrica and Asia, 
