36 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Physalis. 
and larger campanular corolla, with an erect almost entire mar- 
gin, and a calyx with five deeply carinated angles, and five spur- 
hike extensions at its base; the second has a more decidedly in- 
fundibuliform corolla, resembling that of a Nolana, and an almost 
transparent calvx marked with dark green lines; the third has 
a still more tubular corolla with an enlarged thickened calyx : 
Anisodus has a large deeply bell-shaped flower with rounded 
lobes, and a vesicular thickened calyx with five large prominent 
nervures which become woody: in /¥ithania the corolla is nar- 
row and deeply cleft, and the fructiferous calyx is broad and not 
contracted in its mouth: Hypnoticum has a small corolla with 
an extremely short tube, and a small erect five-cleft border. 
In Physalis, on the contrary, the corolla is broadly campanular, 
with a spreading pentangular border more or less entire, and 
generally with five large coloured spots at its base. All possess 
a swelling calyx enveloping the fruit, and Hypnoticum agrees with 
Physalis in having stellate or brachiate pubescence. The follow- 
ing is its emended generic character :— 
Puysatis (char. reform.).—Calya brevis, tubulosus, in lobis 5 
acutis semifissus, tubo in fructu valde aucto vesiculoso 5-an- 
guloso, persistens. Corolla late campanulata, sepissime ma- 
culis magnis 5 colorata, imo breviter coarctata, limbo subro- 
tato, 5-angulato, rarius in lobis 5 5 triangularibus partito, zsti- 
vatione plicato-valvata. Stamina 5, imo corolle inserta, e 
squamis 3-dentatis basi corollz adnatis et fere in annulum 
sistentibus orta; fi/amenta teretia, erecta; anther oblonge, ba- 
sifixee, circum stylum conniventes, loculis 2, parallele connexis, 
rima marginali longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Ovarium ova- 
tum, imo disco carnoso impositum, 2-loculare, placentis e dis- 
sepimento cruciatim partientibus, tunc bifidis, lunularibus, 
undique Dr aUBERS Stylus simplex, longitudine stammum. 
Stigma capitatum, 2-lobum. Bacca globosa, calyce vesiculoso, 
membranaceo, reticulato, celata. Semina plurima, parva, in 
pulpam midulannia, reniformia, testa scrobiculata. Embryo 
intra albumen carnosum hemicyclicus, teres, radicula infera 
hilo laterali evitante cotyledonibus semiteretibus duplo lon- 
giore.—Herbz suffruticulose, radice perennente, totius orbis 
undique indigene, procumbentes, dichotomo-ramose, pilose ; folia 
alterna, vel gemina, ovata, integra, aut angulato-dentata, inter- 
dum cordata ; flores pedunculati, solitaru, extra-axillares, se- 
pissime nutantes. 
Ail the species of Physalis are too well known and described 
to require any observation, but for the sake of illustrating the 
details of the genus, I have added a species that appears to be 
unrecorded. 
