SOLANACE.E. 297 



Petals 1/5 inch, triangular acute, tomentose and pilose on 



the backs, smooth inside, violet. Anthers not as long, 



opening by two pores at the tops : filaments very short. 



Style slightly longer, stellately hairy, except at the end ; 



stigma terminal, small. Fruits crowded, the pedicels 



decurved so that all face downwards, when green with a 



few hairs, becoming later a rich orange, and nearly 



smooth, but with a few stellate hairs, later dark purple, 



M inch diameter. Seeds % by J^ inch flat, covered 



thickly by very small warts, t. 197. Wight Ic. t. 1400 



(S. ferox-minus). 



In the open. Nilgiris : on the Ootacamund downs common, 

 especially towards Pykara and below. Pulneys : down to 5,500 

 feet. Fyson 3058, 2739. Bourne 350. 



Solanum indicum Linn, ; F.B.I. iv 235, I 20. Leaves 

 less spiny than var multiflora ; flowers few on longer 

 pedicels. At lower levels only. 



Fyson 50, 1937, 1431. 



Gen. Disi. Throughout India and across to Java, China and the 

 Philippines. 



PHYSALIS. F.B.I. 102 II. 



Herbs with solitary axillary flowers of the SOLANUM 



type, but anthers opening by longitudinal slits (not pores) 



and berry enclosed in a thin papery bag (the enlarged 



calyx). 



Species perhaps 30, natives chiefly of America and more 

 especially Mexico and North America ; but a few widely 

 distributed over the warmer parts of the world. 



Physalis peruviana Linn. ; F.B.I. iv 238, II 2 ; Cape 

 Gooseberry. Leaf-stalk I inch ; blade ovate-cordate, 

 2H by 2 inches. Flower-stalk Yz inch. Corolla white 

 with purplish spots. Calyx in fruit ij^ inches long. 



Cultivated and now in places run wild. A native of South 

 America, from which it was introduced into England in 1772. 



