38 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Larnax. 
ealyce globoso, urceolato, vesicario, membranaceo imcelusa. 
Semina plurima, reniformia. Embryo ignotus.—Herbe Peru- 
viane et Mexicane, annue, erecta, dichotome ramose; folia 
alterna, solitaria aut gemina, petiolata; flores axillares, subsoli- 
tarii, aut plurimi fasciculati ; pedunculi 1-flori, florifert erecti, 
fructiferi cernui; corolla lutea. 
1. Larnax subtriflora. Physalis subtriflora, A. et P. Flora 
Peru. 1. 42. tab. 176 a ;—caule angulato ; foliis ovatis, acutis, 
solitarus, vel geminis, venosis, utrinque villosis, pilis mollibus 
articulatis ; pedunculis 2-3nisve, gracilibus, erectiusculis ; 
corolla lutea, venosa; bacca pisiformi, lutescente.—Peruvia, 
ad Obragillo. 
This is an annual, growing to the height of 2 feet; the 
leaves are represented as being 3 inches long, 1} broad, on a 
petiole of 4 or 5 lines, they are somewhat unequal at base, and 
covered with long soft pubescence ; the peduncles are from 6 to 9 
lines long, the calyx scarcely 2 lines in length, the tube of the 
corolla 2 lines long, campanulate above, and the lobes of the 
border, of the same length, are somewhat patent. 
2. Larnax Orinocensis. Physalis Orinocensis, H. B. K. ii. 12 ;— 
caule herbaceo angulato, dichotome ramoso ; foliis ovatis, sub- 
acuminatis, basi imzequalibus, et im petiolum decurrentibus, 
supra glabris, subtus pallidioribus, nervo yenisque hirtellis ; 
floribus ses, pedunculatis, pendulis; calyce urceolato- 
globoso, piloso, 5-dentato, dentibus acutis, pilis articulatis ; 
corolla infundibuliformi-campanulata, pilosiuscula, limbo 5-fido, 
lacinus obtusis eequalibus ; bacca globosa, pisiformi, calyce ve- 
sicario aucto reticulato teecta.—Orinoco. 
Neither this plant nor the following, from their inflorescence 
or general appearance, accord with Physalis, and so much was 
Prof. Kunth impressed with this idea, that he adds respecting 
them, “species anomal, an genus distinctum?’ They appear 
to agree in all essential respects with the characters of the plant 
last described. The leaves are from 3 to 33 inches long, 19 to 
20 lines broad, on a pubescent petiole of 8 to 10 lines in length. 
The flowers are 5 lines long; the peduncles 2 lines in flower, 
4 lines in fruit. The stamens are included within the corolla and 
are glabrous. 
3. Larnax Xalapensis. Physalis Xalapensis, H. B. K. loc. cit. 
p- 13 ;—caule herbaceo, angulato, subdichotome ramoso ; foliis 
oblongis, acuminatis, basi angustatis et equalibus, integris, 
ciliatis, pilis minutissimis utrique conspersis ; floribus plu- 
rimis, subfasciculatis, nade tices pilosis, calyce, corolla, fruc- 
tuque ut in prece , ad Xalapam. 
