Mr. J. Miers on several genera hitherto placed in Solanacese. 179 



Tribus 6. Physale^. Corolla tube brevi, limbo 

 campanulato 5-angulato vel 5-partito : an- 

 ther^e longitudinaliter dehiscentes : calyx 

 fructiferus valde auctus et vesicarius : ft'uc- 

 tus baccatus, embryo teres, fere annularis. . 21. Physalis. 



22. Larnax. 

 2.3. Margaranthus. 



24. Withania. 



25. Hyjmoticum. 

 Tribus 7. WixHERiNCEiE. Corolla tubo brevi, 



limbo 5-fido vix excedente : antherae longitu- 

 dinaliter dehiscentes : calyx fructiferus vix 

 auctus, baccam 2-locularem sufFulciens, vel 

 earn arete vestiens : embryo teres, spiraliter 

 curvatus 26. Witheringia. 



27. Capsicum. 



28. Brachistus. 



29. Saracha. 



30. Discopodium. 



31. Puneera. 



32. Aureliana. 



33. Sichlera. 

 Tribus 8. Solane.e. Antherae apice 2-poros3e, 



vel in tubum connatse, intus dehiscentes : 

 fructus baccatus, 2- raropluri-lucularis : em- 

 bryo teres, spiraliter arcuatus 34. Solanum. 



35. Cyphomandra. 



36. Trigiiera. 



37. Ly coper sicum. 



VERBASCEiE. — The suggestions of our learned countryman 

 offered in his 'Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl./ which I have cited in a 

 former page (in a note, ante, p. 162), were evidently intended, 

 in the state of our knowledge at that time, to apply principally 

 to the Verbascece, which by Jussieu, Linnaeus, and other emi- 

 nent botanists had been classed among the Solanece. Bart- 

 ling afterwards was the first to arrange the Verbascece as a di- 

 stinct tribe among the Scrophulariacece, and Nees v. Esenbeck, 

 acting upon the suggestion of Mr. Brown, proposed the Ver- 

 bascina as a distinct family, intermediate between Solaneie and 

 So'ophulorina (Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. p. 78). The principal 

 reasons that have induced all subsequent botanists to adopt the 

 suggestion of Bartling, have been the imbricate aestivation of the 

 corolla, and the frequent suppression of some of the stamens, 

 which have been considered paramount to the many other not 

 less important considerations that tended to show the near ap- 

 proximation of the Verbascea to the Solanece ; but these objec- 

 tions, fatal as they were to the admission of this tribe into the 

 latter family, do not apply to their connexion with the Atropacece, 



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