752 Lxxxviii. SOLANACE/E. [Cajjsicum 



PuNGO Andoxgo. — Fruit ellipsoidal-clavate, pungent. Cultivated 

 in Sansamanda ; fr. 2 May 1857. Perhaps this species ; compare the 

 variety oUrmforme Dunal (C. oUvceforme Miller, I.e., n. G). No. 6069. 



5. PHYSALOIDES Moench, Meth. PI. p. 473 (1794), non Suppl. 

 p. 178 (1802). 



Withania Pauq. Diss. Bellad. p. 14 (1824) ; Benth. & Hook. f. 

 Gen. PL ii. p. 893. 



1. P. somnifera Moench, I.e. 



PhysaJis somnifera L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 182. n. 1 (1753) ; J. A. 

 Schmidt, Beitr. PL Cap. Verd. Ins. p. 236 (1852). Cf. Physalis 

 (sp.), Welw. in Bol. Cons. Ultr. Lisb. No. 7, p. 83, n. 74 (1854). 



Bexguelt.a. — A herb, sometimes suffruticose, sometimes frutescent 

 and hard-woody at the base ; flowers sordid-yellow. In bushy sandy 

 submaritime places at the river Cavaco, not uncommon ; fl. and fr. 

 19 June 1859. No. 6027. 



MossAMEDES. — A dichotomously branched, melancholy-looking 

 shrub, 4 to 7 or even 8 ft. high ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate, shortly 

 acute ; flowers yellowish ; berries scarlet. In sandy thickets at the 

 banks of the river Bero ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 60276. 



HuiLLA. — An erect undershrub ; stems several, 3 ft. high ; calyx 

 clothed with a snow-white felt when young and during the flowering, 

 afterwards turning green ; corolla from green to yellowish. In hilly 

 bushy rather dry places near Lopollo, sporadic ; fl. Jan. 1860. 

 No. 6025. 



Cape de Verde Islands. — In the island of San Thiago ; fr. 

 Jan. 1861. No. 6060. 



6. PENTAGONIA Heister ex Fabric. Enum. PI. Hort. 

 Helmstad., edit. 1, p. 184 (1759); non Vent. (1841), nee Benth. 

 (1844), nee Moehring (1736). 



Physalodes Boehmer in Ludwig, Defin. Gen. PI., edit. 3, p. 41 

 (1760). Nicandra Adans. (1763); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 

 p. 897; non Schreb. (1789). 



1. P. physalodes. 



A trojxi physalodes L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 181 (1753). Kicandra 

 physaloides Gsertn. Fruct. ii. p. 237, t. 131, f. 2 (1791); Welw. 

 Apontam. p. 551, sub n. 100. Physalodes peruvia^mm 0. Kuntze. 

 Bev. Gen. PI. ii. p. 452 (1891). Ph. p)hysalodes Britton in Mem. 

 Torr. Club, v. p. 287 (1894). 



LoANDA. — Attaining 2 ft., flowering when 6 in. high. Near Maianga 

 do Povo, wild ; fl. Jan. 1858. No. 6072. 



Prince's Island.— In fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. No. 6062. 



7. LYCIUM L. ; Benth. & Hook, f . Gen. PI. ii. p. 900. 



1. L. decumbens Welw. ms. in Herb., sp. n. 



A glabrescent shrublet, 1 to 1^ ft. high ; stems prostrate, 

 rather thick, somewhat ashy and shining, nodose, intricately 

 branched, spiny; branches rigid, mostly divaricate, nodose, 

 spiny ; branchlets glandular-squamulose, leafy ; spines whitish, 

 very rigid, acute, patent, \ to \ in. long ; leaves alternate and 

 fasciculate, oblanceolate, rounded at the apex, wedge-shaped to 



