Physalis. 5; 845 
486. (3.) Physalis Linn. 
Calyx campanulate, or pyramidal, shortly or to the middle 
5-lobed, enlarged in fruit, inflated, membranous, 5-angled or pro- 
minently 10-ribbed, often 5-auricled at the base; teeth conniving, 
Corolla subrotate or very widely campanulate, 5-angled or shortly 
and widely 5-lobed. Stamens 5, inserted near the corolla-base; 
filaments filiform; anthers erect, usually shorter than the filaments; 
cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform ; 
stigma shortly 2-lobed; ovules numerous. Berry globose, enclosed 
in and much smaller than the inflated calyx. Seeds many or few, 
smooth or slenderly tuberculate-rugose, compressed; embryo near 
the margin, curved; cotyledons semiterete. — Annual or perennial 
herbs, glabrous or more often clothed with simple or stellate hairs. 
Leaves entire, sinuate or more rarely pinnatifid. Flowers small, 
solitary, axillary, pedicellate, violet, yellow or white, often purple 
at the base. 
Species about 30, chiefly in the warmer parts of America. 
1185. Physalis peruviana L. Spec. Plant. II (1762), p. 1670. 
— Dun. in DC. Prodrom. XII fase. I, p.440. — Aschers.-Schweinf. 
Ill. Flor. @Eg,, p. 112 no.757. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., 
Supplem. p. 769. —  Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 262. — 
Physalis tomentosa Medic. Act. Acad. Theod. Palat. IV Phys. (1780), 
p. 184 tab.4 not of Thunbg. — Physalis edulis Sims Bot. Mag. tab. 1068. 
— Herbaceous or suffruticose from a perennial rootstock, with simple 
white hairs on the stem. leaves and outside of the calyx. Stem 
erect, branched, sulcate when dry. Leaves cordate, acuminate, entire 
or irregularly dentate-sinuate. 6—9 cm long, 51/,—6 cm _ wide; 
petiole up to 5'/, cm long. Flowers solitary on cernuous peduncles 
lcm long, arising just outside the leaf-axils. Calyx in flower 
1,5 cm in diam., campanulate with 5 lanceolate acute lobes 6 mm 
long, in fruit shortly ovoid, acuminate, 21'/, em long, 2'/, cm in 
diam. Corolla 1,5 cm in diam., rotate-campanulate, slightly 5-lobed, 
pale yellow with 5 large dark purple spots at the base of the lobes. 
Stamens inserted near the corolla-base; filaments filiform, 5 mm 
long; anthers oblong, obtuse 2%/, mm long. Ovary globose; style 
cylindrical, 1 cm long; stigma subcapitate. Berry globose, 1 em in 
diam., glabrous. — Flow. January to March. 
M. ma. M. p. N. d. N.f. N. v. O. D.i. D. a. sept. Often culti- 
vated and naturalized. 
Local name: habwa (Schweinfurth); hashish sakran. 
Throughout the tropics, probably a native of South America. Naturalized 
in many places. 
