Mr. J. Miers on several genera hitherto placed in Solanacese. 179 
Tribus 6. Puysates#. Corolla tubo brevi, limbo 
- campanulato 5-angulato vel 5-partito: an- 
there longitudinaliter dehiscentes: calyx 
fructiferus valde auctus et vesicarius: fruc- 
tus baccatus, embryo teres, fere annularis.. 21. Physalis. 
22. Larnac. 
23. Margaranthus. 
24. Withania. 
25. Hypnoticum. 
Tribus 7. Wirnrrincex. Corolla tubo brevi, 
limbo 5-fido vix excedente: anthere longitu- 
dinaliter dehiscentes : calyx fructiferus vix 
auctus, baccam 2-locularem suffulciens, vel 
eam arcte vestiens : embryo teres, spiraliter 
curvatus...... aiivin ei A iain ls anh he cigs cieies 26. Witheringia. 
27. Capsicum. 
28. Brachistus. 
29. Saracha. 
30. Discopodium. 
31. Puneera. 
32. Aureliana. 
33. Sichlera. 
Tribus 8. Sonanrz. Anthere apice 2-porose, 
vel in tubum connate, intus dehiscentes : 
fructus baccatus, 2- raro pluri-lucularis : em- 
bryo teres, spiraliter arcuatus .......... 34. Solanum. 
| 35. Cyphomandra. 
36. Triguera. 
37. Lycopersicum. 
Paknsacux —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 Verbasceea, which by Jussieu, Linneus, and other emi- 
nent botanists had been classed among the Solanee. Bart- 
_ ling afterwards was the first to arrange the Verbascee as a di- 
stinct tribe among the Scrophulariacee, and Nees v. Esenbeck, 
acting upon the suggestion of Mr. Brown, proposed the Ver- 
bascine as a distinct family, termediate between Solanee and 
Serophularine (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 xstivation 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 Verbascee to the Solanee; 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 A‘ropacee, 
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