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16 ILLUSTRATIONS OF 



2-loculare, placentis incrassatis septo adnatis^ multiovulatis. 

 Stylus simplex, longitudine staminum. Stigma capitato-bilo- 

 bum. Bacca globosa, calyce membranaceo parum aucto suf- 

 fulta. Semina plurima, in pulpam nidulantia^ parva, reni- 

 formia : testa scrobiculata, hilo in sinu laterali : embryo intra 

 albumen carnosum semicyclicus^ teres, cotyledonibus uncinatis 

 semiteretibus, radicula paulo inflexa infera hilo evitante di- 

 midio brevioribus.— Herbse American interiropicte pler^umque 

 perenneSy procumbentes^ dichotome ramosm^ pilosa ; folia alterna 

 vel geminay integral aut sinuato-dentafa ; infloi'escentia umbel- 



-florOy awillari vel e dichotomiis scepius 



d 



appear to belong to tbis genus: 



!• Saracha procumbensj R. & P, Flor...Per. 2, 43. tab. 180 b. 



2. umbellatUy DC. Jaeq. Hort. Scboen. tab. 493. 



3. contortay R. & P. L c. tab. 180 fit** 



4. — jaltomatay Schl. Linn. 13. Litt. 98 j Linn. 19. 307. 



5. Zuccagniana, R. & Sch, Syst. 4. 687. 



6. villosaj G. Don, R. & Sch. Syst. 4. 684. 



7. dentatUy R. & P. /. c. 2. 43. tab. 1796. 



8. bifiora, R. & P. Z. c. 2. 42. tab. 179 a. 



9. viscosuy Schrad. Sweet. Br. Fl. Gard. (2nd ser.) 4. 



tab. 323; Botanist, 4. tab. 168. 



10. pubescensy Willd. R. & Sch. Syst. 4, 687. 



11. allogonay Schl. Linn. 19. 308. Solanum allogo- 



num, Bernh. Linn. 8. 252 j Walp. Rep. 3. 48. 



From this list are excluded S. punctata^ R. & P., referred to 

 Poecilochroma (vol. i. of this work, p. 153), and S. geniculatUy 

 Mart. & Gall. Bull. Ac. Br. 12. 1. 133; Walp. 6. 575, which is 



evidently referable to Pkysalisy on account of its solitary pendu- 

 lous flowers and yellow corolla with large purple spots. Galeotti^s 

 Mexican plant, no. 1226, is said by Schlechtendal (Linn. 19. 308) 

 to be the Saracha angulatay Linn., which is clearly a typical error, 

 instead of Physalis angulatay Linn. Among the doubtful or un- 

 dcscribed species of Saracha may also be mentioned as of no 

 value for want of sufficient details, S, brasiliensis, Klotzsch, Linn. 



viana, D. Diet. Gartnerlexicon, 8. 525. 



Monsp 



The following new species are now to be added to this genus : 



32. Saracha ciliaia (n. sp.) ; — caule angulato, glabro, vel sparse 

 asperO'pilosulo, dichotome ramosoj foliis geminis, oblongis, 

 utrinque attenuatis, subglabris, aut leviter glanduloso-asperis, 

 eroso-denticulatis, et ad marginem cihatis, breviter petiolatis ; 

 pedunculo brevi, axillari, vel e dichotomiis orto, umbellatim 



• Mathews, no. 3248. 



