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appearance of its saccate ventricose calyx and berried fruit led 

 me to suppose it offered most analogy with Nicandra^ but this 

 I find is not the case^ as it belongs to the true SolanacecBy and to 

 the tribe Solane<JB^ taking its place between Pionandra and 7n- 

 guera. In the structure of its stamens and style there is much 

 resemblance to the former genus : the anthers are erect ; the 

 lobes are long, parallel, and contiguously adnate upon a dorsal 

 furrowed connective ; they are thin in texture, each being 

 2-locellatej owing to the existence of a somewhat oblique, 

 slender, complete partition that divides each lobe, which is 2-val- 

 vular, and its dehiscence takes place by a longitudinal slit near 

 the outside of the anterior face, caused by the separation of the 

 margins of the valves from the edge of the contracting partition, 

 so that after bursting, each lobe thus appears to be unilocular : 

 this separation is more constant at the summit, where the line 

 of dehiscence crosses the face diagonally towards the middle of 

 the anther, when the broad upper valve is thrown back in an 

 auricular form and into an erect position, while the narrower 

 lower lip is reflected downward, thus showing a broad oblong 

 gap divided by the line of the septum, and forming a continu- 

 ation of the lateral fissure : each anther is deeply 2-lobed at its 

 base, and is attached at the bottom of its dorsal groove to the 

 apex of a sigmoid-shaped filament, which crosses it abruptly to the 

 front, so that the anther appears fixed astride upon it : the fila- 

 ments are short and closely surround the ovary, they are com- 

 pressed, somewhat broad, deeply channelled, being often enlarged 

 in the middle by two auricular erect margins ; they are joined 

 together by a narrow, fleshy, annular ring, which is united by 

 its base to the foot of the corolla. The calyx is formed of five 

 lanceolate, acute leaflets distinct nearly to its base, which con- 

 sists of a small inverted cup, having five saccate cavities alterna- 

 ting with the segments ; these segments are at first expanded, 

 but after the fall of the corolla they collapse, increase consider- 

 ably in size, become yellowish, reticular, and more membra- 

 naceous in texture; their margins approximate and turn out- 

 wards, thus forming a somewhat pointed, 5 -toothed, globosely 

 ventricose pentagonal tube with salient winged angles, which 

 are saccate at their base as above mentioned, thus greatly re- 

 sembling in shape that of Nicandra or Physalis in fruit : the seg- 

 ments are densely covered on both sides with glandular, simple, 

 and stellated hairs intermixed. The corolla is nearly the length 

 of the calyx, is cleft almost to the base, where it is briefly tubu- 

 lar ; the segments, which scarcely exceed the stamens in length, 

 are expanded, smooth inside, with a keeled medial nervure, and 

 outside are densely tomentose with stellated pubescence. The 

 ovary is conically ovate j the style is slender, erect, fusiform at 



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