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New Species of Physalis. 
By P. A. RYDBERG. 
Ina recent study of the North American species of Physalis the 
following new species have been determined. Since the material 
is widely scattered in herbaria, I deem it best to publish the de- 
scriptions pending the completion of the final monograph. 
” PHYSALIS SUBULATA N. sp. 
Fruiting calyx sharply 5-angled, more or less acuminate, calyx- 
lobes (at flowering time) lanceolate or acuminate, as long as the 
tube or longer; plant more or Jess villous or viscid-pubescent, 
erect, dichotomously branched, 2-4 decimetres high, stem angular 
and striate; leaves round-ovate, somewhat oblique at the base, 
generally coarsely dentate ; pedicels shorter than the small corolla, 
which is 2-3 millimetres in diameter ; calyx-lobes shorter than the 
corolla; fruiting calyx sharply angled and purple-veined, heart- 
shaped in section. 
This is intermediate between ?. Barbadensis and the South 
Mexican P. nicandrioides Schlecht. From the former it differs in 
the more glandular pubescence, and the long acumination of the 
calyx-lobes; from the latter in its smaller rounder leaves, 
in its calyx-lobes, which are shorter than the corolla, and in the 
fruiting calyx, which is smaller and not of a firm texture.* 
P. subulata has not yet been within the United States, but 
" comes near to its border. 
Mexico. State of Chihuahua: C. G. Pringle, No. 1344, 1887 
(type). It is in the following herbaria: Columbia College, Uni- 
versity of Minnesota and Professor Greene. 
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PHYSALIS COMATA nN. sp. 
Perennial, erect, about 0.5 metre high; pubescence fine and 
short, that on the calyx, pedicels and upper branches mixed with 
long white flat jointed hairs ; like P. heterophylla Nees (P. Virginiana 
Gray, not L.), but leaves smaller, blade not over 0.5 decimetre long, 
rounded, ovate, scarcely at all cordate at the base, about 5 centi- 
* Another related Mexican species is P. hirsuta Mart. & Gal., not Dunal. It dif- 
fers from P, subu/ata in its larger, less veiny fruiting calyx, from P. nicandrioides by 
the calyx, which is not of a firm texture, and from both by its subentire leaves. It 
most resembles P. pubescens, but differs in its subulate calyx-tips. 
