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50 ILLUSTRATIONS OF 



reticulate pictuin inclusa^ subrotunda^ exsucca, cortice fragili 

 evalvatOj 2-locularis, dissepimento tenui^ placentis subcruciatis 

 seminigeris. Semina mimerosaj subreniformiaj compressa, 

 testa rugosa, hilo lateral! marginali. Embryo intra albumen 

 carnosum teres, subannularis, radicula angulo basali spectante 

 et bilo eyitsLnie^cotyledonibus semiteretibus sequilonga. — Herbee 

 Ame7*iccB meridionalis prostrat<^, subsuccosce, pilos^y Nolan<B 

 facie j folia in axillis altema, geminata^ ovata^ sinuato-angulosay 

 petiolata; ^ores geminiy extra-axillares, pedunculati; corolla 

 violacea. 



1. Cacabus prostraiuSj Bernh. Linn. xiii. p. 360. Physalis pro- 



' Her it 



Nees 



lb Esenb. Linn. vi. p. 480, P. Limensis, 

 . Physaloides prostrata, Monch. Method. ; 

 herbaceus, annuus, pills articulatis patentibus vestitus, caule 

 prostrate ; ramulis dichotome flexuosis ; foliis radicalibus op- 

 positis, caiilinis alternis, et geminis, altero minori, late ovatis, 

 sinuato- vel repando-angulatis, basi subinaequalibus, obtusis, 

 supra glabris, subtus villosis, margine ciliatis, longe petiolatis, 

 petiole canaliculato dilatato, ciliato, folio sequilongo : pedun- 

 culis solitariis vel geminis, in axillis lateralibus, floriferis 

 erectis, demum reflexis, elongatis ; corolla csenilea, imo albido- 

 radiata ; bacca globosa, glandulo parvo epigyno apiculata, 

 calyce membranaceo multo majori recondita. — Peruvia 



ritimis ? ad Chancay et ChorilloSj Prov. Limse, — v. s. in herb. 



cult.) ; in herb. Hook. (Palaria, ad sinum " los 

 Cliorillos^^ dictum, MacLean). 



It is unnecessary to offer any detailed account of this species, 

 as we find so excellent an account of it given by L^Heritier, who 

 described it from living plants, at that time growing in England; 

 it seems however to have been long lost to our gardens, although 

 it was cultivated in Lee's nursery grounds in 1793, accord- 

 ing to the specimen preserved in Sir J. E, Smith's herbarium, ' 

 The leaves are from 2 to 2| inches long, 14 to If inch broad; 

 they are finely reticulated, with a number of raised minute dots 

 in each areole ; the petiole is about 2 inches long, the flowers are 

 quickly fugacious ; the corolla is 1 inch long and 1 inch dia- 

 meter across the mouth, the contracted base of the tube being 

 3 lines in length ; the filaments are 3 lines long, slender, and 

 hairy below; the fructiferous calyx is white, and almost transpa- 

 rent, hairy, globose, contracted in the mouth, with ten longitudinal 

 nervures and anastomosing reticulations of a dark green colour, 

 and is half an inch in diameter ; the inclosed berry, when ripe, 

 is 3 lines in diameter, 2-celled, with bifm-cate placenta bearing 

 a number of minute rugose seeds ; it is quite devoid of pulp ; the 



