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the divisions ovate and marked on the base with spots of an olive : 
green; throat bearded, STaMens exserted, at first slightly so, with 
the anthers close together, but lengthening after the flowers are open 
and spreading. Fruit a red globular berry. 
PopuLarR AND GeocrapuicaL Notice. Ina paper on this plant, 
lately published in the Linnea, by Professor Bernhardi, it is clearly 
shown that it is much nearer to the more usual forms of Physalis or 
Winter Cherry, than to Ruiz and Pavon’s Saracha, and indeed he pro- 
poses, not, perhaps, without reason, to join both genera into one, which 
would consist of five sections, distinguished from each other chiefly by 
the calyx, which during the flowering is the same in all, excepting in 
as much as it is more or less deeply cleft. In the common Winter 
Cherry, to which he gives the sectional name Alkekengi, the calyx is 
not cleft to the middle, and encloses the fruit at its maturity, in Physalis 
somnifera, which is Meench’s Physaloides and Don’s Hypnotica, the 
calyx is the same but the fruit not so succulent; in Physalis atriplici- 
folia, Bernhardi’s section Megistocarpus, the calyx is not cleft to the 
middle, it surrounds the fruit, but is open after the corolla has fallen 
off; in our plant, for which he makes the section Cycolis, the calyx 
closes over the young fruit, but is quite open when it is ripe, and is 
cleft below the middle; finally, in the true Saracha, the calyx, cleft 
nearly to the middle, never closes at all, nor surrounds the fruit. 
The genus Physalis thus extended, is chiefly American, but with a 
‘few African and East Indian species. There appears to be some 
uncertainty as to the precise country where the species figured came 
from. We have not access to the garden catalogue, in which Schrader 
originally published it, nor do we possess wild specimens. It is pro- 
bably, however, a native of Mexico. G. B. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTurRE. It was first raised in 
Germany; and seeds of it were transmitted thence to this country 
some yearsago. Our drawing was made from a plant growing in her 
Majesty’s garden at Kew, where it has greenhouse protection, but will 
grow with little care. During summer it may be turned into an open 
border of light —— where it will flower, and Fa te its berries. 
ERIVATION OF THE NAME 
Puysaris from Sesakic, a name derived from gvon a ‘bladder, given by Diosco- 
rides to a plant which Linneus supposed to be our winter cherry. ScHra- 
DERIANA, ae Professor Schrader of Munich, who first published this plant 
as a Sarac 
NONYMES. 
SaRACHA Neg: Schrader: in a ea Catalogue. Don: in Sweet's Flower 
Garden, t z 
Puysarts ScHRADERIANA. Bernhardi: in the Linnea, v. 13, p. 361. 
