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the noble collection of our King is anything but a shrubby Physalis, while the 
Pee Vetti “ Arbor est justee magnitudinis, caudice crasso—Flosculi (mascu- 
lini nempe)—sex teretibus acuminatis—ac extrorsum reflexis foliolis constantes, 
medium occupante stylo exiguo (filamentum) candido, capitulo (anthera) flavo. 
—Bacce plano-rotundze (depressee) acuminate, decem cingulis sulcate, pur- 
pure, glabrae, nitentes, intus in decem loculamenta per membranaceas quas- 
dam pelliculas distincta, in quibus totidem locuntur acini—crocei—ita ut sin- 
guli in singulis latitent cellis.” This account is totally irreconcileable with the 
Pe Fetti being a Physalis, and an inspection of the figure shows this still 
further. The separate figure of the fruit does not represent an inflated calyx 
concealing a berry, but a small calyx supporting the base of a large fruit. 
The flowers also are evidently monoecious; the male, described by Rheede, 
having an open calyx deeply divided into six segments, and containing in the 
centre one filament, which supports the antherz united into a capitulum. 
The female flowers, not noticed in the letter-press, have the divisions of the 
calyx erect, and these include the germen crowned by a projecting sharp- 
pointed stylus. Whether the fruit is actually a berry, or is merely a coloured 
capsule, I cannot say. If it is a berry, this circumstance, and there being only 
one seed in each cell, may induce some to separate the plant from the genus 
Bradleja; although it is evident that the Pe Vetti has the utmost affinity to 
this genus, which includes most of the Agynejas. I suspect, however, that the 
fruit is merely a coloured capsule, which, with the red covering of the seeds, 
usual in the Bradleja (“ semina arido-baccata," Gaertn. De Sem. ii. 127.), may 
have readily induced Rheede to use the term bacca, botanical language being 
then less definite than it now is. In this case, the circumstance of the seeds 
being solitary in the Pee Vetti, would be quite too trifling to distinguish it as 
a genus from Agyneja multilocularis, which is a Bradleja, of which I have given 
specimens to the library at the India House, or from the Agyneja coccinea, 
of which my account was published by Colonel Symes in the account of his 
Embassy to Ava, and of which specimens were sent to Sir Joseph Banks. 
To the above-mentioned library I have given specimens of two plants, or 
perhaps of two varieties of one species, both of which agree so far with the 
character of the Physalis flexuosa that I have little doubt of its being one of 
them, although both entirely want the character (ramis flexuosis) from 
