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the corolla, of more membranaceous texture, is tubular, and of 

 small diameter at its base, soon expanding above into a broad 

 funnel-shape, with a wide conspicuous border of five large acute 

 lobes, which are plicately valvate in aestivation ; the fruit is a 

 berry, concealed by the membranaceous calyx, which is some- 

 times, but not always, split on one side ; the seeds contain a 

 slender, filiform, almost annular embryo; the yellowish down 

 that invests the flowers of this species consists of simply arti- 

 culated hairs : in Juanulloa the hairs of its dense tomentum are 

 stellately brachiate. The second species of Physalina, the Juan- 

 ulloa grandijiora, Dun., appears to me to agree well, in all essen- 

 tial respects, with my Cleochroma grandijiora, figured in plate 32 

 of my ' Illustrations ' ; it is the lochroma grandijiora, Benth., and 

 again described by M. Dunal (Prodr. 491) under that name; it 

 seems to difi"er only in the blade of the leaves being somewhat 

 shorter ; and if the dimensions of the calyx, which always increases 

 rapidly with the age of the flowei', be taken as that of its ulti- 

 mate growth (as shown in fig. 4 of the plate referred to), all the 

 proportions and floral details will be found to accord completely 

 with those of M. Dunal's description : should it be found, how- 

 ever, to be a distinct species, it may be called Cleochroma Dunalii. 

 Upon the same evidence, Juanulloa microphylla, Dun., will be- 

 come Cleochroma microphylla, nob. M. Dunal includes Cleo- 

 chroma as a section of lochroma : it is undoubtedly much allied 

 to that genus, but I have offered strong reasons (Illust. South 

 Am. Plants, i. p. 147) to prove why it should be considered 

 generically distinct. We have only to compare the details given 

 in plates 46, 47, 33, 31 and 30 of the work last quoted, to be 

 convinced of the great generic differences between Juanulloa, 

 Sarcophysa, and Cleochroma, and of this last from lochroma. . 



Codochonia of M. Dunal (Prodr. p. 482), if it be not identical 

 with, is evidently allied most closely to Hebecladus, and not to 

 Atropa, agreeing with the former in habit, and the aestivation 

 and general structm-e of its floral parts, diffei-ing only in being 

 6-merous, and in having shorter stamens and style, which in 

 other genera (as in Solanum, Capsicum, and his Witheringia for 

 instance) are not allowed to constitute generic distinctions. 



With the Sicklera of Dr. Sendtner (Prodr. p. 501) I am not 

 in the least degree acquainted, but from the description there 

 given, it cannot be, as M. Dunal states, allied to L/ycium, on ac- 

 count of its herbaceous habit and the valvate aestivation of its 

 flowers : judging from the characters there described it appears 

 to be very near Capsicum, and indeed to differ little from that 

 genus : it accords in the form of its unchanged persistent calyx, 

 in the shape and size of its corolla, the insertion of its short sta- 

 mens, and its apiculated cordate subexserted anthers : there does 



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