S8 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Anisodus. 



gescens. Corolla campanulato-tiibulosa, imo contracta, medio 

 inflata, tubo carnosulo calycis Ion gitudine^ limbo brevi 5-partito^ 

 lobis rotundatis, reflexis^ tenuioribus, uno majusculo in ala- 

 bastro interiore, sestivatione omnino imbricativa. Stamina 

 5, sequalia, inclusa^ erecta ; filamenta teretia, basi dilatata, imo 

 tubi insevta. in alabastro pubescentia, demum glabra ; antherce 

 pblongse, imo cordatse, sinu apicifixse, 2-loculares, loculis 

 , parallele connatis, intus longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Ova- 

 rium conicum, imo disco magno carnoso plurisulcato circum- 

 datum, 2-loculare, placentis valde incrassatis, pluri-ovulatis, 

 dissepimento utrinque adnatis. Stylus teres, longitudine sta- 

 minum. Stigma clavato-bilobum, subcompressum. Capsula 

 ovata, subcoriacea, fragilis, 2-locularis, calyce reticulato 10-cos- 

 tato recondita, apice horizontaliter ruptilis, operculo deciduo, 

 subplano, sub-4-lobo, crasso-coriaceo. Semina plurima, reni- 

 formia, compressa, testa leviter punctulata. Embryo intra 

 albumen carnosum hamato-arcuatus, teres, radicula paulo cur- 

 vata, angulo basali spectante^ cotyledonibus semiteretibus un- 

 catis seqnilonga. — Herba Nepalensis, radice perennante, folia 

 ^oblonga, geminata, altera minori, petiolatay fiores solitarii, 

 ,^j|^ dwillares, nut antes. 



'Vf^' Anisodus luridus, Link, Icon. Select. PLBer. 77 ; Nees, Linn. 



'^ Trans, xvii. 72. Nicandra anomala. Link ^ Otto, he. cit. 

 tab. 35. Whitleya stramonifolia. Sweet, Brit. FL Gard. ii. 

 tab. 125. Physalis stramonifolia. Wall. Cat. 2632 et inRoxb. 

 Fl.Ind. ii. 242; — herba elata, dichotome ramosa; foliis oblongis, 

 utrinque acutis, basi subinsequalibus, supra glabris, subtus 

 flavidis, floccoso-tomentosis, petiolo crassiusculo; flore nutante, 

 pedunculo pubescente, petioli longitudine, calycis tubo 10-an- 

 gulato, angulis costatis, pilis articulatis pubescentibus ; corolla 

 viridi-lutea, demum lurido-purpurascente. — Nepal, v. s. in 

 herb. Wall., in herb. Hook., et v. v. in hort. Kew. cult. 



This plant is cultivated in the Kew Gardens, where it assumes 

 a shrubby appearance, about 5 or 6 feet high, with large and 

 copious foliage : its stems are annual, appearing each spring from 

 its large perennial root. The leaves are about 7 inches long 

 and 3g- inches broad, on a fleshy channeled petiole of about 

 1 inch in length, the geminate leaf being about half that size. 

 The peduncle also, 1 inch long, springs from the interval between 

 the two petioles. The calyx is somewhat fleshy in texture_^ sub- 

 angular, with ten prominent pubescent nervures, and with inter- 

 mediate reticulations; it is campanular below, broadly tubular 

 and somewhat cylindrical above, about 1 inch in length and 

 nearly an inch in diameter, being surmounted by five broad 

 triangular teeth of unequal size, and from 1 to 4 lines in length. 



