270 LXXXIX. SOLANACE.E. 



2-lobecl. Berry globose, enveloped in the bladder-like calyx. Seeds 

 many or few, smooth or faintly tuberculate, compressed ; embryo 

 peri|)heric. — Distrib. Mostly American, several introduced in the Old 

 World ; species about 30. 



1. Physalis minima, Linn. Sp. PL (1753) p. 183, Annual, her- 

 baceous ; stem erect, 6-12 in. high, striate, more or less (often viscidly) 

 pubescent. Leaves 1-2^ by g-l| in., ovate, acute, shallowly toothed 

 or lobed, more or less pubescent, thin, base cuneate ; petioles |-1| in. 

 long, slender, more or less pubescent Flowers solitary ; pedicels 

 filiform, nodding, g-g in. long. Calyx i- i in. long at flowering-time, not 

 angular, base truncate ; teeth triangular, acute, nearly equalling the tube, 

 ciluite. Corolla clear-yellow, sometimes spotted at the base \\ithin; 

 lobes of limb very short. Filaments y^y in. long, glabrous ; anthers 

 y^g- ill- long, oblong, obtuse. Ovary ovoid, seated on a large disk ; style 

 glabrous. Berry g in. in diam., entirely enveloped in the enlarged calyx, 

 which is ovoid or subglobose, |-1 in. long, membranous, 5- or sometimes 

 10-ribbed, reticulately veined, tipped by the connivent pubescent calyx- 

 teeth. Seeds discoid or subreuiform, y'^ in. in diam., finely muriculate, 

 orange-yellow. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 238 ; Grab. Cat. p. 140 ; Trim. Fl. 

 Ceyl. V. 3, p. 236; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 173; 

 "Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 1, p. 224. — Flowers : Aug. Vern. 

 Chirboti ; lidn-pojyati. 



A weed, tolerably common in the Deccan. Deccan : Poona, Cooke !, Woodrow I 

 S. M. Country: Belgaum, Ritchie, 1305! — Distrib. More or less throughout India; 

 Cejlon, Tropical Africa, and Australia. 



rhysaVis peruviana Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1763) p. 1670. A small shrub 

 a native of Tropical America has been long groA\n in gardens and is 

 known to Anglo-Indians as the Cape Gooseherrtj. The yellow berries 

 are eaten, made into jam or used in tarts, and have a pleasant subacid 

 flavor. It is sometimes found as an escape and used to be tolerably 

 abundant below the Table Kock at Panchgani. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 238; 

 Grab. Cat. p. 140 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 61 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 12 (1898) p. 173 & Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 400; AVatt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 1, p. 225. — Vern. Popaii. 



3. WITHANIA, Pauq. 



Unarmed shrubs, often hoary-tomentose. Leaves entire. Flowers 

 usually fascicled, subsessile or shortly pedicellate, sometimes dioecious. 

 Calyx campanulate, 5-6-toothed, accrescent in fruit. Corolla cam- 

 panulate ; lobes 3-6, short, valvate in bud. Stamens 5, atlacbed near 

 the base of the corolla ; antliers dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 ovules numerous; style linear; stigma shortly 2-licl. Berry gb^bose, 

 enclosed in the enlarged calyx. Seeds many, discoid ; embryo peripberic. 

 — DiSTRiii. Soutbern Eurojje, AVestern Asia in warm regions. North 

 Africa, Canary Islands ; species 4. 



Flowers liemnphrodito ; berry loosely cnclosefl in Ihe 

 accrescent caly.v 1. W. somnifera. 



Flowers dioecious; berry tightly girt by the accrescent 

 calyx 2. W. congulcns. 



