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2. PHYSALIS Linn. 
Anthers yellow ; corolla under 7 in., unspotted; annual P. MINIMA. 
Anthers violet; corolla $ in., spotted; perennial . . P. peruviana. 
P. PERUVIANA Linn. Sp. PIl., ed. 2, p. 1670 (1762); Clarke in Fl. Brit. 
Ind. IV, p. 238 (1885). P. edulis Sims Bot. Mag. t. 1068 (1807). Alke- 
kengi pubescens Moench. Meth. Suppl. p. 473 (1802). 
A casual in waste places. Jaffna; Batticaloa; Haputale. 
Native of Tropical America. 
P. aNGULATA Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 183 (1753); Clarke in Fly Beat ime ty, 
p. 238 (1885). 
This is a similar plant to P. peruviana Linn. but has glabrous leaves 
and an unspotted corolla. C. P. 1898, quoted by Trimen, is P. peru- 
viana Linn., so that the record rests on Fl. Zeyl. no. 97. Clarke 
states that ‘‘ The true P. angulata Linn. occurs only cultivated in 
India.”’ 
P. Hermanni Dunal. had a spotted corolla unlike typical P. minima. 
Clarke calls the glabrescent form, of P. minima, var. indica. 
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4. DATURA Linn. 
Bis erect : 
Capsule irregularly dehiscent. : , . D. BASTUOSA. 
Capsule 4-valved . : : : : . D. Stramonium, 
Fls. pendulous : : . D. suaveolens. 
D. fastuosa Linn. 
Gamble Fl. Madr. p. 940 separates this from D. Metel Linn. as 
follows : 
Capsule covered with short spines or ‘blunt tubercles; 
flowers white or white with purple outside; leaves 
ovate, acute, entire or coarsely toothed, with acute 
lobes, base very unequal-sided, up to 8 in. long, nearly 
glabrous : : : : : ; : , 
Capsule covered with long slender spines; flowers white 
tinged with green; the fruiting calyx very large; leaves 
ovate-lanceolate, acute, base very unequal, up to about 
4 in. long or more, minutely grey-tomentose . if siidetel, 
Wight Ic. t. 1396 which is referred by Gamble to D. fastuosa has 
the long spines and white flowers of D. Metel. 
Clarke, Fl. Brit. Ind. p. 243, suggests that D. Metel is only 
naturalised in the Old World. 
Wright, in Fl. Trop. Afr. IV, 2, p. 286, states that the corolla of 
D. Metel is 10-toothed and that of D. fastuosa 5-6-toothed. Sims’s 
figure in the Bot. Mag. t. 1440 from a Surinam specimen is 5-toothed 
but Sims suggests that the Old and New World plants may be distinct. 
Boldingh, Flora voor de Nederlandsch West-Indische eilanden, 
states that the spines on the fruit of D. Metel are 1 cm. or more long. 
Part IITf. 
fastuosa. 
