APPENDIX. 59 



the conclusion that the genera Witheringia, Mart,, Atheruea, 

 Sendtn.^ Aureliana, Sendtn., and Bassovia^ Aubl.^ are identically 

 one genus, and of these the latter must claim the priority, on 

 account of its long previous existence. To the species of Bas- 

 sovia enumerated by M. Dunal (Prodr. 105-411) we must there- 

 fore add B. picta (of which B. Gardneri, Dun., must be regarded 

 as a synonym), B, pogogena, B. mollis, B. micranthaj B. pyrU 

 folia^B. Pohlianay B. Schottiana^ B. ? Novo-FriburgensiSy B, Mar- 

 tiana, B. oocarpay B. hirsutay and B. anonacea, nob. 



I have hitherto only spoken of the section Atken^a, and it now 

 remains to consider the other species included in the same genus 

 by M. Dunal: of these it is evident that only two really belong 

 to Withania — the original W. aristata, Pauq., and W. frutescens, 

 Pauq., which form a genus marked by distinct characters, the 

 limits and differential features of which have been defined in 

 ^ Hook. Journ/ i. 225 (also shown in p. 7 of this Appendix) ; the 

 remaining nine species are referable to Hypnoticum, Larnax and 

 Puneei^a, genera confounded by M. Dunal in the genus Withania. 

 This last-mentioned genus differs from Hypnoticum in its urceo- 

 late calyx with five long setiform teeth, the tube expanding with 

 the growth of the fruit into a large bell-shaped cup, with a still 

 broader open mouthy in the bottom of which the berry is seated ; 

 this cup is of somewhat thickened texture, glabrous, and very 

 reticulated by numerous strong transverse veins between its ten 

 longitudinal nervures ; the margin is almost entire, with five 

 long setiform processes, which are extensions of the principal 

 nerves : in Hypnoticum the calyx is tubular, very tomcntose, with 

 five broad short teeth ; this increases in size, becomes inflated in 

 the middle, contracted in the mouth, with five ei'cct short teeth, 

 finely reticulated in texture, and enclosing the berry as in Phy* 

 salis. In Withania the corolla has the form of a very short tube 

 below, with a limb of equal length, divided into five elongated 

 narrow lobes obtuse at the apex ; the stamens are shorter than 

 the tubular portion ; the filaments, much dilated at base, form a 

 disjointed annular ring adnate to the base of the corolla; they 

 are compressed, gradually narrowing toward their summit ; the 

 anthers, equal to them in length, are erect, pointed at the apex, 

 and cordate at base, by the divarication of the two parallel cells : 

 in Hypnoticum the corolla is smaller than in Withania, and more 

 tubular ; the tubular part, not exceeding the length of the calyx, is 

 marked below the mouth with. five coloured spots ; it has a small 

 border of five short angular reflexed teeth ; the filaments are fili- 

 form, arising out of as many expanded processes adnate to the base 

 of the corolla, and the anthers are formed of twoparallel cells, with- 

 out intervening connective. In Withania the stigma is formed 

 of two lips with a large intermediate globular stigmatic gland : in 

 Hypnoticum the stigma is clavate, obsolctely 2'lobed. In Witluinia 



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