flowers, both lateral and terminal disposed in cyme-like groups. Ca- 
Lyx 5-lobed, pubescent, with few aculei. Corotta large, spreading, 
5-lobed, lobes rather acute, under surface slightly pubescent: upper 
surface smooth, colour ‘self pearly white. Sramens 5, equal, free, 
filaments short, anthers long, yellow. Ovary globose, style short, 
stigma capitate. Frorr nearly the size of a cherry, almost entirely cov- 
ered by the persistent accrescent calyx. SEEDs numerous, kidney-sha- 
ped, margined. 
PopunarR AND GeocrapnicaL Notice. The present species is a 
native of Brazil and other parts of South America; there are several 
varieties of it, as far as difference in the colour of the flowers is suffi- 
cient to constitute a variety, some being blue (which is the more gen- 
erally their hue) others purple (Bot. Mag. 2828) while our plant has the 
flowers white, and is altogether more delicate than the other two sorts. 
To this difference little importance should be attached, as the same di- 
versity of colour may be observed in the flowers of the common potatoe 
(Solanum tuberosum.) The fact of the calyx being in this, and sey- 
eral other species of the genus, accrescent is worthy of more notice, as 
a similar disposition to enlarge exists in the calyx of the Physalis Al- 
kekengi (the Winter Cherry) and the Nicandra physaloides (the Alke- 
kengi of the gardens.) 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE Grown; CuLtTurE. The blue-flowered 
variety was introduced in 1816, but we are ignorant at what time the 
present variety hecame known to British cultivators. We are indebt- 
ed to Mrs. Lawrence of Drayton Green, for the opportunity of hav- 
ing it drawn. It is kept in the greenhouse, which probably its greater 
delicacy renders advisable ; but the others seem capable of enduring 
our out-of-door climate. “A specimen” says Mr. Loudon in his Arbo- 
retum Britannicum, p. 1268.“planted against the wall in the Horticul- 
tural Society's garden, in 1833, grows vigorously, and flowers freely 
every year.” 
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