PHYSA’LIS SCHRADERIANA. 
SCHRADER’S PHYSALIS. 
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GENUS. Puysauis. Linnazvs. Catyx quinquefidus, post anthesin in- 
crescens, fructifer plus minusve apertus v. sepius clausus. Coroxta plicata, in 
as i en pralr rotata, limbo quinquelobo. Sramina quinque, sub- 
qu ANTHER# utrinque fotifititdinaliter dehiscentes. Bacca calyce 
pen di taka rent canara subglobosa, plus minusve succulenta, cortice 
tenaci. SEMINA numerosa, compressa, C ieentinrmia. Bervuarpt,in Linnea, 
ECIES. Puysaris Scurapertana (BERNHARD!) suffruticosa, erecta, 
viscoso-pubescens, foliis binatis inequalibus oblique cordato-ovatis integerri- 
mis vel repando-dentatis, calyce post anthesin clauso, fructifero aperto, ultra 
medium quinquefido, staminibus exsertis. 
CHaRACTER OF THE GENUS, Puysatis. CaLyx five-cleft, in- 
creasing in size after the flowering is over; more or less open when ‘ 
the fruit is ripe, or more frequently closed, Corovta folded in the 
bud, rotate or somewhat bell-shaped; the limb of five divisions. 
StTaMeEns five, nearly equal. ANTHERS opening. by two longitudinal 
slits. Berry inclosed or surrounded by the calyx, nearly globular, 
more or less fleshy, with a tough skin. SEEDS numerous, compreaes) 
nearly reniform. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, PHYSALIS SCHRADERIANA. Sind 
perennial, somewhat shrubby at the base, erect, a foot or rather more : 
in height. Brancnes spreading, clothed, as well as the leaves, the 
peduncles, and calyxes, with clammy glandular hairs. Leaves growing 
generally two together, but of very unequal sizes, the larger ones often — 
four or five inches long, borne on a stalk of an inch to an inch and a 
half, ovate, ending in a blunt point, entire, waved, or coarsely toothed 
on the margin, obliquely heart-shaped at the base. PEDUNCLES one- 
flowered, collected three to five together, in irregular umbels in the 
axils of the leaves, of unequal lengths. FLowers drooping. CaLyx 
large and foliaceous, deeply five-cleft, five-angled, closing over the 
young fruit after the corolla has fallen off, but opening again as the 
fruit ripens. CoroLza rotate, with an exceedingly short tube, of a 
pale yellowish white, an inch and half in diameter, deeply five-cleft, 
