562 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Physalis. 
Beng. Ushwa-gundha. 
Teling. Penneroo. 
This perennial species is to be found in almost every soil 
and situation. Flowers all the year round. 
Stems several, erect, shrubby, flexuose, two-forked, round, 
downy. Leaves double, short-petioled, ovate, a litde scol- 
loped, downy, from two to four inches long. Flowers axil- 
lary, sub-sessile, crowded, small, greenish, Cerol campa- 
' nulate. Anthers split at the base. Berry red, smooth, size 
of a pea. 
The Telinga physicians reckon the roots alexipharmic ; 
indeed they are all much addicted to the belief of such 
powers being present in a great variety of their simples ; hence 
the name Naga, (i. e. the hooded snake, Coluber Naga of 
Linneus) being so often annexed to that of various plants. 
They are as fond of the study of antidotes as the Greek or 
Roman physicians were, which will appear the less surpriz- _ 
ing if we consider the great number of poisonous animals 
and plants which abound in the warmer part of Asia, to the 
dreadful effects of which they are very often eye-witnesses. 
At is therefore very natural for them to attend much more to 
this branch of medicine than is done in cold climates, where 
there is scarcely an animal of which the bite or sting can be 
said to be mortal. 
2. PB; Alkekengi. Willd, spec. 1. WORD 355 32 BL oe 
_ Herbaceous; branches straggling. ined in pairs, entire, 
and somewhat angular. = : 
A native of Persia, In the Botanic penien at Calcutta it 
flowers during the cool season, but does not thrive in Bengal. 
Paks peruvianc, Willd. spec. i, 1022. 
_ Biennial or perennial, very ramous, diffuse, pubescent, 
eaves double, or single, and then with a branchlet; cor- 
| date, Aentate. Flowers eel ee. he cel twondet 
