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sometimes nearly dry. Seeds flattened; embryo curved or coiled, 
| slender, the semiterete cotyledons not broader than the radicle.* 
| I.. Anthers unconnected, destitute of terminal pores, dehiscent longitudinally. 
| a. Fruiting calyx bladdery-inflated, s-angled and deeply 5-parted; ovary 
| 3-5-loculed. (Physalodes.) 
b. Fruiting calyx bladdery-inflated, 5-lobed, but not parted, 10-costate and 
often 5-10-angled, reticulated, wholly enclosing the berry, lobes mostly con- 
nivent; ovary I-loculed. 
Corolla yellowish or greenish, often tinged with violet, urceolate, minutely toothed on 
the more or less contracted orifice Margaranthus. 
Corolla hin api n yev or whitish, often with a dark emer? seeds with a 
thin n, finely pitted. Physalis 
Corolla ue SRM violet or purple; seeds thick, se-tuberculate, Quincula, 
€. Fruiting calyx SC enlar pei, but closely an to e ge thin, ob- 
rely veiny, open a h 
Corolla had whitish; lobes P the fruiting calyx much xo the berry. 
Leucophysalis, 
Corolla rotate, whitish sometimes tinged with purple; fruiting calyx not exceeding 
the berry. Pus maesaracha 
Corolla tubular, ochroleucous or purplis ryctes, 
Fruiting calyx enlarged, inr expanding under i fruit. 
(Saracha). 
€. Fruiting calyx not much enlarged, generally small. 
( Capsicum, Salpichroa, etc.). 
2. Anthers connate or connivent, either tipped with an empty acumination or with 
an apical pore 
| 
| 
, \ 
(Lycopersicum, Solanum, etc.). 
. Margaranthus Schlecht. 
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nnual 
tracted at the orifice, minutely 5-toothed. Stamens inserted at p 
upper end of the tubular portion, with short filaments, more o 
less connivent and included in the corolla, opening by 2 Fear 
nal slits. Style slightly exerted; stigma entire. Seeds numerous, 
flattened, kidney-shaped, mi inutely tubercled. 
Corolla urceolate, much constricted at the orifice, very saccate, sinuses between ihe 
lobes narrow ; anthers long, slightly tapering upward. 1. M. tenuis. 
Corolla eer less constricted at the orifice, less saccate; sinuses broad and shal- 
Ow; anthers shorter, oblong; calyx about 14 the length of the corolla, in fruit 
about 8 mm. in diamefer. 2. M. solanaceus. 
* These characters of the tribe are taken from Gray, Syn. Fl. 2: part 1, 224, 
