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menta brevissima, antherce 2-loculares, loculis adnatls. Ova- 

 rium ovatum, 2-loculare. Stylus brevis, erectus^ apice sub- 

 incurvus. Stigma sub-2-lobum. Bacca pisiformis, 2-locularis, 

 calyce globoso, urceolato, vesicario, membranaceo inclusa. 

 Semina plurimaj reniformia. Embryo ignotus. — Herbse Peru- 

 vianse et MexicanBe, annua, eredce, dichotome ramosa; folia 

 alterna, solitaria aut gemina, petiolata ; flores axillares, suhsoli- 



fructifi 



fasciculati ; pedunculi 1-flori, florift 



the 



1. Larnax subtriflora. Physalis subtriflora, R. et P. Flora 

 Peruv. ii. 42. tab. 176 a ; — caule angulato ; foliis oyatis, acutis, 

 solitariis, vel geminls, venosis, utrinque villosis, pilis moUibus 

 articulatis ; pedunculis 2-3nisve, gracilibus, erectiusculis ; 

 corolla lutea, venosa; bacca pisiformi, lutescente.— Peruvia, 

 ad Obragillo. 



This is an annual, growin^ 

 leaves are represented as being 3 inches long, 1^ broad, on a 

 petiole of 4 or 5 lines, they are somewhat unequal at base, and 

 covered with long soft pubescence ; the peduncles are from 6 to 9 

 lines long, the calyx scarcely 2 lines in length, the tube of the 

 corolla 2 lines long, campanulate above, and the lobes of the 

 border, of the same length, are somewhat patent. 



2 Larnax Orinocensis. Physalis Orinocensis, H. B.K. 



caule herbaceo angulato, dichotome ramoso ; folns ovatis, sub- 

 acuminatis, basi insequalibus, et in petiolum decurrentibus, 

 supra fflabris, subtus pallidioribus, nervo venisque hirtellis ; 

 floribus geminis, pedunculatis, pendulis; calyce — 1«^- 



globoso, piloso, 5-dentato, dentibus acutis, piis articulatis ; 

 corolla infundibuliformi-campanulata,pilosiuscula,limboo-fido, 



laciniis obtusis lequalibus ; bacca globosa, pisiformi, calyce ve- 



sicario aucto reticulato tecta.— Orinoco. 



Neither this plant nor the following, from their inflorescence 

 or general appearance, accord with Physalis and so much was 

 Prof. Kunth impressed with this idea, that he adds respectmg 

 them, - species anomaly, an genus distmctum V They appear 

 to agree in all essential respects with the characters of the plant 

 last described. The leaves are from 3 to 31 inches long, 19 to 

 20 lines broad, on a pubescent petiole of 8 to 10 mes m length 

 The flowers are 5 lines long; the pedundes 2 lines m ^^^^^ 



within 



are glabrous. 



i^ama^ju Xalapensis. Physalis Xalapensis, H. B. K. loc. cit. 

 ^13 —caule herbaceo, angulato, subdichotome ramoso ; folns 

 oblon'gis, acuminatis, basi angustatis et ^qualibus, integris, 



