752 LXXXVIII. SOLANACE. [Capsicum 
Pounco AnpoNGO.—Fruit ellipsoidal-clavate, pungent. Cultivated 
in Sansamanda ; fr. 2 May 1857. Perhaps this species ; compare the 
variety oliceforme Dunal (C. oliveforme Miller, /.c., n. 6). No. 6069. 
5. PHYSALOIDES Moench, Meth. Pl. p. 473 (1794), non Suppl. 
p. 178 (1802). 
Withania Pauq. Diss. Bellad. p. 14 (1824) ; Benth. & Hook. f. 
Gen. Pl. ii. p. 893. 
1. P. somnifera Moench, J.c. 
Physalis somnifera L. Sp. Pl. edit. 1, p. 182, n. 1 (1753); J. A. 
Schmidt, Beitr. Fl. Cap. Verd. Ins. p. 236 (1852). Cf. Physalis 
(sp.), Welw. in Bol. Cons. Ultr. Lisb. No. 7, p. 83, n. 74 (1854), 
BENGUELLA.—A herb, sometimes suffruticose, sometimes frutescent 
and hard-woody at the base ; flowers sordid-yellow. In bushy sandy 
submaritime places at the river Cavaco, not uncommon ; fl. and fr. 
19 June 1859. No. 6027. 
MossaMEDES.—A dichotomously branched, melancholy-looking 
shrub, 4 to 7 or even 8 ft. high ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate, shortly 
acute ; flowers yellowish ; berries scarlet. In sandy thickets at the 
banks of the river Bero ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 6027d. 
Hvi__ta.—An erect undershrub ; stems several, 3 ft. high ; calyx 
clothed with a snow-white felt when young and during the flowering, 
afterwards turning green ; corolla from green to yellowish. In hilly 
bushy rather dry places near Lopollo, sporadic; fl. Jan. 1860. 
No. 6025. 
CaPE DE VERDE IsLanps.—In the island of San Thiago; fr. 
Jan. 1861. No. 6060. 
6. PENTAGONIA Heister ex Fabric. Enum. Pl. Hort. 
Helmstad., edit. 1, p. 184 (1759); non Vent. (1841), nec Benth. 
(1844), nec Moehring (1736). 
Physalodes Boehmer in Ludwig, Defin. Gen. Pl., edit. 3, p. 41 
(1760). Nicandra Adans. (1763); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 
p. 897; non Schreb. (1789). 
1. P. physalodes. 
Atropa physalodes L. Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p. 181 (1753).  Nieandra 
physaloides Geertn. Fruct. ii. p. 237, t. 131, f..2 (1791); Welw. 
Apontam. p. 551, subn. 100. Physalodes peruvianum O, Kuntze. 
Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 452 (1891). Ph. physalodes Britton in Mem. 
Torr. Club, v. p. 287 (1894). 
Loanpa.—Attaining 2 ft., flowering when 6 in. high. Near Maianga 
do Povo, wild ; fl. Jan. 1858. No. 6072. 
Prince’s Istanp.—In fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. No. 6062. 
7. LYCIUM L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 900. 
1. L. decumbens Welw. ms. in Herb., sp. n. 
A glabrescent shrublet, 1 to 1} ft. high; stems prostrate, 
rather thick, somewhat ashy and shining, nodose, intricately 
branched, spiny; branches rigid, mostly divaricate, nodose, 
spiny; branchlets glandular-squamulose, leafy ; spines whitish, 
very rigid, acute, patent, } to 4 in. long; leaves alternate and 
fasciculate, oblanceolate, rounded at the apex, wedge-shaped to 
