﻿Nicandra.] solanace.e (Wright). 109 



DisTKiB. Species 1, a native of Peru, but now naturalized in most hot 

 countries. 



1. N. physaloides (Gsertn. Fruct. ii. 237, t. 131, fig. 2) ; a much- 

 branched herb ; stem more or less angular ; leaves ovate-oblong, 

 sinuate-serrate, acuminate, tapering towards the base, glabrous, up to 

 5 in. by 3 in. ; petiole |^-2 in. long, narrowly winged ; flowers 

 solitary ; calyx 5-partite, 5-angIed ; segments cordate, acuminate, 

 y lin. long, 6 lin. broad; corolla purple, 1^ in. in diam. ; tube 

 campanulate ; lobes short, transversely oblong ; stamens much 

 shorter than the corolla ; filaments inserted near the corolla-base, 

 subulate, hairy at the base ; anthers ovate ; ovary ovoid ; style 

 filiform; stigma capitate; berry globose, 6 lin. in diam., smooth, 

 enclosed in the enlarged calyx; seeds ^ lin. in diara., compressed, 

 minutely papillate. Bot. Mag. t. 2458 ; Miers, III S. Amer. PI. t. 

 43 ; I)unal in DG. Prod. xiii. i. 434 ; Harvei/, Gen. S. Afr. PI. ed. 

 2, 257. N. minor, Hort. ex Bunal, I.e. 434. Atropa physalodes, 

 Linn. 8p. PI. ed. I, 181. Pliysalis daturcefolia, Lam. Encyd. ii. 

 102. P. 'peruviana, Mill. Diet. ed. 8, n. 16, not of Linn. Caly- 

 dermos erosus, Ruiz Sf Pav. Fl. Per. ii. 44. Physalodes peruvianum, 

 O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL ii. 452. P. physalodes^ Britton in Mem. 

 Torrey Bot. Club, v. 287. 



South Afbica : without locality, Forbes, 240 ! 



Kaiahaei Region : Transvaal ; near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1012 .' near 

 Pretoria, Kirlc, 33 ! 



Eastern Kkgion : Natal ; near Pietermaritzbnrg, Wilms, 2171 ! Inanda, 

 Wood, 102 ! and without precise locality. Cooper, 1218 ! 



Introduced ; a native of Peru. 



V. LYCIUM, Linn. 



Calyx campanulate or tubular, truncate or irregularly 3-5-toothed, 

 not or but slightly enlarged in fruit. Corolla tubular, funnel-ahape<l, 

 campanulate or urceolate ; tube short or long, often swollen at the 

 throat ; lobes 4-5, flat, imbricate, patent. Stamens 4-5, inserted in the 

 corolla-tube, included or exserted ; filaments filiform, often dilated and 

 hairy at the base ; anthers short, cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. 

 Disk annular or cupukr. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules many. Berrj/ 

 globose, ovoid or conical, rather fleshy; pericarp thin or fleshy. 

 Seeds many, rarely few or solitary, compressed ; testa crustaceous, 

 pitted ; embryo much curved, near the circumference ; cotyledons 

 semiterete. 



Trees or shrubs ; ultimate branchlets often spiny, glabrous or pubescent ; 

 leaves entire, linear and snbterete or flat, often in fascicles or rudimeutary 

 branchlets ; flowers usually solitary. 



DiSTRiB. Species about 50, temperate and warm regions throughout the 

 world, very common in extratropical South America. 



L. cordatum, Mill. Diet. ed. 8, n. 10, is Carissa Arduina, L^m, 



L. inerrae, Linn, f, Suppl. 150, is Plectronia ventosa, Linn. 



