26 ILLUSTRATIONS OF 



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minibus , subinsequalibus, longe exsertis, stylo sequilongis. 

 Chile ad Coquimbo. v. s. in herb. Hook, et Lindl. (Bridge., 



no. 1332). 



The habit of this species is somewhat different from the pre- 

 ceding, the branchlets being much longer, straighter and more 

 slender ; the leaves are also larger and more linear, being 4 lines 

 long by f line broad, and after their fall the axils do not become 

 enlarged by callous knots, as occurs in the two other species ; 

 the peduncle is 4 lines long ; the calyx, 5 lines in length, is 

 more funnel-shaped, and divided nearly halfway down into five 

 acute teeth ; the corolla is 9 lines long, spreading above to a 

 diameter of 6 lines, with a border of five short lobes, and is appa- 

 rently of a pale yellow or whitish colour ; both it and the calyx 

 as well as the peduncle, the stem and the leaves are thickly 

 clothed with short glandular pubescent down : the style, thickened 

 at its apex, is considerably farther exserted than the stamens : 

 the berry, closely invested by the calyx, is globular, with a conical 

 apex, and is 5 fines in diameter*. 



3. Phrodus nodosus (n. sp,) ; — fruticosus, ramulis nodoso-flexu- 

 osis^ subadscendentibus ; foliis fasciculatis, spathulato-linea- 

 ribusj caraosis^ eveniis^ superne canaliculatis, imo callo tumido 

 persistente suffultis, axillis hinc demum nodosis : corolla ob- 

 Bcuriore, calyce campanulato duplo longiore^ staminibus vix 

 exsertis; stylo istis multo longiore. — Coquimbo, v. s. in herb. 

 Hook, et Lindl, (Bridges, no. 1333). 



The habit of this plant is intermediate between the two former, 

 the branches being flexuose and knotty as in the first species ; its 

 leaves are similar in size and shape to those of P. Bridgesii, but 

 the agglomerated persistent callous bases of the leaves, after they 

 have faJlen, give to the branches, which are more flexuose and 

 crooked, the same knotty appearance as in P* microphylla^ a cha- 



t 



Physalis. 



Having spoken so frequently of this genus in relation to other 

 approximate genera, it is desirable that its limits should be de- 

 fined with more accuracy than heretofore. Its distinction from 

 Saracha has been already marked by its inflorescence ofiering 

 always a solitary axile flower, by its greatly increased vesicular 

 reticulated calyx in fruit wholly inclosing the berry, and by its 

 more deeply campanular and less rotate corolla with a border not 



* This species is figured in plate 41. 

 f ITiis plant is shown in plate 42 B. 



