8 ILLUSTRATIONS OF 



•Frutices Hispatiici^ Algerienses et Canariemes, foliis altemis v, gemi- 

 niSy ovatiSy aut ohlongis, obticsis^ Aorihus paucis, exira-awillaribus, 



1. TFithania frutescenSy Pauq. Dissert, Bellad. Atropa frutescens, Limi. 

 Sp. pi. 200. Physalis frutescens, DC. Flor, Fr, vol. iii. p. 611. 

 Hypnoticum frutescens, Rodr. Physalis tuberosa, Cai\ Icon. vol. ii. 

 tab. 102. — fruticosa, foliis ovatis sub-cordatis, sparse pubescenti- 

 bus aut glabris, margine petioloque ciliatis ; floribus 1-3, aggregatis, 

 pediceUatis sub-extra-axillaribus — Hispania et Algeria. 



The leaves in the specimens I have seen from Oran, are nearly circular, 

 subcordate, somewhat emarginate at the apex, and nearly 1-i inch in dia- 

 meter, on a slender canaliculate petiole half an inch long. The specimens 

 from Spain have smaller and more ovate leaves. The berry is small, 

 barely 2^ lines in diameter, with only a single seed perfected in each 

 cell : it is enclosed in the campanular calyx with five expanding lobes, 

 a wide open mouth, and of double its length and diameter : the seed is 

 compressed reniform, about two lines in diameter. The lobes of the 

 persistent calyx are rounded, coriaceous, and with the setiform apical 

 termination often withered. 



2. WitJiania arisiata, Pauq. (loc, cit) — Atropa aristata, Toir. Phy- 

 salis aristata,^/^: fruticosa, ramis compressis, angulatis; foliis oblongis 

 vel rotundatis, subcordatis, apice obtusis, retusis, utrinque glabres- 

 centibus, margine petioloque canaliculato ciliatis ; floribus solitariis 

 sub-extra-axillaribus, pedunculis lanatis. — Insul. Canariensibus. 

 The berry in this species is globular, about half an inch in diameter, 



encloses many seeds, and is tightly invested by the persistent calyx of 

 equal length, which is almost entire, or at least, with five very short 

 teeth, terminated by five setiform threads nearly equal in length to the 

 calycine tube. The hairs seen in this and the foregoing species, are 

 brachiate as in Fhysalk and Hypnoticum. 



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