﻿106 solanace.t: (Wright). [riiymli>i. 



10-ribbed, often o-auvicled at the base ; teeth conniving. Corolla 

 subrotate or very widely campanulate, 5-angled, or shortly and 

 widely 5-lobed. Stamens 5, inserted near the corolla-base ; filaments 

 filiform; anthers erect, usually shorter than the anthers; cells 

 parallel, dehiscing lungitudinally. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform ; 

 stigma shortly 2-lobed ; ovules numerous. Berri/ globose, enclosed 

 in and much ssnaller than the inflated calyx. Seeds many or few, 

 smooth or slenderly tuberculate-rugose, compressed ; embrj^o near 

 the margin, curved ; cotyledons semiterete. 



AniiUHl or perennial herbs, elotlipd witli simple or stellate hairs; leaves entire, 

 sinniite or more nirely piimatifid; flowers small, solitary, axillary, pedicellate, 

 viol<'t, yellow or white, often purple at the base. 



DiSTitiB. Species about 30, chiefly in the warmer parts of America. 



Corolla 9 lin. in diam., yellow with a purple base ... (1) peruviana. 



Corolla 2^ lin. in diara., entirely yellow or white ... {z) minima. 



^ 1. P. peruviana (Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1670) ; herbaceous or 

 vSnffruticose from a perennial rootstock ; stem, leaves and outside of 

 calyx clothed with white simple hairs ; stem erect, branched, sulcate 

 when dry; leaves cordate, acuminate, entire or irregularly dentate- 

 sinuate, 3-4 in. long, 2^-3 in. wide ; petiole np to 2,\ in. long ; 

 flowers solitary on cernuous peduncles 4 lin. long, arising just outside 

 the leaf-axils ; calyx in flower 6 lin. in diam., campanulate with 5 

 lanceolate acute lobes 3 lin. long, in fruit shortly ovoid, acuminate, 

 1-;^- in. long, li in. in diam. ; corolla 9 lin. in diam., rotate-cam panu- 

 late, 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, 1^ lin. long, 

 dehiscing longitudinally; ovary globose; style cylindrical, 4 lin. 

 long ; stigma subcapitate ; berry globose, 6 lin. in diam,, glabrous. 

 Dnncd in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 440 ; Harvey, Gen. S. Afr. PL ed. 2, 

 257 ; Benth. Fl. Ansfral. iv. 466 ; Hook. J. Fl. Brit. Jnd. iv. 238. 

 P. tomentosa, Medic. Act. Acad. Theod. Pa/at iv. Ph7/s. (1780) 184, 

 t. 4, not of TJnmb. nor Walt. P. incana, Hort. Par. ex Dunal I.e. 

 P. edulu, Sims, Bat. Mag. t. 1068. P. pubescens, Drhje, Zicei 

 Pfanzengeogr. Doc. 88, not of Binn. 



South Africa : without locality, ^^hex, 258! Mund .' Tlin-m, 318 ! GiH .' 



Coast Rkgiox : Cape Div. : Table Mountain, 2i 00-3000 tt.,' Dreg e .' Ronde- 

 boseh, Pappe! Kuysua Div.; in the forest by the quarry, near MelvilK', 

 Burchell, bi:0 I -i . ' 



Kalahari Region: Bnsutoland. Cooper, 710! Transvnal ; Matebe Valley, 

 Bolub! near Lydenbnrg, Wihns, 1013 1 near Pretoria, Kirlc, 32 ! 



I have not seen the specimen referred by Drege (I.e. 131) to P. puhescens, 

 Liun., which he collected vit Addo, in Uitenhage Div. It may also belong to 

 P. peruviana, Liun. Probably this species originally came from South America, 

 but is now spread throughout the tropics and extends to Australia. Harvey (I.e.) 

 states that it is naturalized in South Africa, and is called the " Cape Gooseberry." 



7 2. P. minima (Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, 183) ; a much branched herb, 

 sparingly villous ; stems sulcate when dry ; leaves ovate, acuminate, 



