38 ^Ir. J. Mieis on the genus Anisodus. 



gescens. Corolla campanulato-tubulosa, irao contracta, medio 

 inflata, tubo carnosulo calycis longitudine^ limbo brevi 5-partito, 

 lobis rotmidatis, reflexis, tecuioribus, uno majusculo in ala- 

 bastro interiore^ gestivatione omnino imbricativa. Stamina 

 5, sequalia, inclusa, erecta ; filamenta teretia, basi dilatata, imo 

 tubi insevta. in alabastro pubescentia, demum glabra ; antherce 

 oblongse, imo cordatse^ sinu apicifixre, 3-loculares, loculis 

 parallele connatis, intus longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Ova- 

 rium conicum, imo disco magno earnoso plurisulcato circum- 

 datum, 2-locuIare, placentis valde incrassatis, pluri-ovulatis, 

 dissepimeuto utrinque adnatis. Stylus teres, longitudine sta- 

 minum. Stigma clavato-bilobum, subcompressum. Capsula 

 ovata, snbeoriaceaj fragilis, 2-locularis, calyce reticulate 10-cos- 

 tato recondita, apice borizontaliter ruptilis, operculo deciduo, 

 subplano, snb-4-lobo, crasso-eoriaceo. Semina plurima, reni- 

 formia, compressa, testa leviter punctulata. Embryo intra 

 albumen carnosum hamato-arcuatus, teres, radicula paulo cur- 

 vata, angulo basali spectante, cotyledonibus semiteretibus un- 

 catis sequilonga. — Herba Nejmlensis, radice perennante, folia 

 oblonga^ geminata^ altero minori,. petiolata; flores solitarii, 

 axillares, nutantes. 



1. Anisodus luridus, Link, Icon. Select. PI. Ber. 77 ; Nees, Linn. 

 Trans, xvii. 72. Nicandra anomala. Link ^ Otto, loc. cit. 

 tab. 35. Whitleya stramonifolia. Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. ii. 

 tab. 125. Physalis stramonifolia. Wall. Cat. 2632 et inRoxb. 

 Fl.Ind. ii. 242; — herba elata, dichotome ramosa; foliis oblongis^ 

 utrinque acutis, basi subinaequalibus, supra glabris, subtus 

 flavidis, floccoso-tomentosis, petiolo crassiusculo; flore nutantC;, 

 pedunculo pubescente, petioli longitudine, calycis tubo 10-an- 

 gulato, angulis costatis, pilis articulatis pubescentibus ; corolla 

 viridi-lutea, demum lurido-purpurascente. — Nepal, v. s. in 

 herb. Wall., in herb. Hook., et v. v. in hort. Kew. cult. 



This plant is cultivated in the Kew Gardens, where it assumes 

 a shrubby appearance, about 5 or 6 feet high, with large and 

 copious foliage : its stems are annual, appearing each spring from 

 its large perennial root. The leaves are about 7 inches long 

 and 3i inches broad, on a fleshy channeled petiole of about 

 1 inch in length, the geminate leaf being about half that size. 

 The peduncle also, 1 inch long, springs from the interval between 

 the two petioles. The calyx is somewhat fleshy in texture, sub- 

 angular, with ten prominent pubescent nervures, and with inter- 

 mediate reticulations; it is campanular below, broadly tubular 

 and somewhat cylindrical above, about 1 inch in length and 

 nearly an inch in diameter, being surmounted by five broad 

 triangular teeth of unequal ^ize, and from 1 to 4 lines in length. 



