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54. Mr. J. Miers on the genus Cacabus. 
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reticulate pictum inclusa, subrotunda, exsucca, cortice fragil 
evalvato, 2-locularis, dissepimento tenui, placentis subcruciatis 
seminigeris. Semina numerosa, subreniformia, compressa, 
testa rugosa, hilo laterali marginali. Hmbryo intra albumen 
carnosum teres, subannularis, radicula angulo basali spectante 
et hilo evitante, coty/edonibus semiteretibus equilonga.— Herbee 
Americe meridionalis prostrate, subsuccose, pilose, Nolane 
facie ; folia in axillis alterna, geminata, ovata, sinuato-angulosa, 
petiolata; flores gemini, extra-axillares, pedunculat: ; corolla 
violacea. 
1. Cacabus prostratus, Bernh. Linn. xui. p. 360. Physalis pro- 
strata, L’ Herit. loc. cit.; Jacq. Ic. Pl. Rar. Am. tab.38; Andrews, 
Rep. tab. 75 ; Nees ab Esenb. Linn. vi. p. 480. P. Limensis, 
Retz. Observ. v. p.22. Physaloides prostrata, Monch. Method. ; 
—herbaceus, annuus, pilis articulatis patentibus vestitus, caule 
prostrato ; ramulis dichotome flexuosis ; foliis radicalibus op- 
positis, caulinis alternis, et geminis, altero minori, late ovatis, 
sinuato- vel repando-angulatis, basi submeequalibus, obtusis, 
supra glabris, subtus villosis, margine ciliatis, longe petiolatis, 
petiolo canaliculato dilatato, ciliato, folio zquilongo: pedun- 
culis solitariis vel geminis, in axillis lateralibus, floriferis 
erectis, demum reflexis, elongatis ; corolla cerulea, imo albido- 
radiata ; bacca globosa, glandulo parvo epigyno apiculata, 
calyce membranaceo multo majori recondita.—Peruvia, in ma- 
ritimis ? ad Chancay et Chorillos, Prov. Limee.—v. s. in herb. 
Soc. Lin. (ex hort. cult.) ; in herb. Hook. (Palaria, ad sinum “los 
Chorillos” dictum, MacLean). 
It is unnecessary to offer any detailed account of this species, 
as we find so excellent an account of it given by L’Heritier, who 
described it from living plants, at that time growing in England ; 
it seems however to have been long lost to our gardens, although 
it was ~cultivated in Lee’s nursery grounds in 1793, accord- 
ing to the specimen preserved in Sir J. E. Smith’s herbarium. 
The leaves are from 2 to 2} inches long, 14 to 12 inch broad ; 
they are finely reticulated, with a number of raised minute dots 
in each areole ; the petiole is about 2 inches long, the flowers are 
quickly fugacious ; the corolla is 1 meh long and 1 inch dia- 
meter across the mouth, the contracted base of the tube bemg 
3 lines in length; the filaments are 3 lines long, slender, and 
hairy below ; the fructiferous calyx is white, and almost transpa- 
rent, hairy, globose, contracted in the mouth, with ten longitudmal 
nervures and anastomosing reticulations of a dark green colour, 
and is half an inch in diameter ; the inclosed berry, when ripe, 
is 3 lines in diameter, 2-celled, with bifurcate placente bearmg 
a number of minute rugose seeds ; itis quite devoid of pulp; the 
pericarp is membranaceous, mdehiscent, and its apex is marked 
