Physalis.] xci. solanace^e (wright). 247 



Annual. 



Leaves densely villous ; corolla spotted . . 2. P. pubescent. 



Leaves giabrous ; corolla unspotted . . 3. P. angulata. 



Perennial ; leaves densely liairy ; corolla spotted . 4. P. peruviana. 



1. P. minima, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1, 183. A much-branched 

 sparingly villous herb, about 1 ft. high. Leaves ovate, or subcordate. 

 acuminate, entire or sinuate-dentate, 1^ in. long, f in. wide ; petiole 

 slender, i in. long. Flowers solitary ; pedicels slender, inserted by 

 the side of the petioles. Calyx-tube campanulate, f lin. long, enlarging 

 in fruit to A in. in diam., becoming glabrous and angular. Corolla 

 narrowly campanulate, yellow, not spotted, 3 lin. long, 2| lin. in diam., 

 shortly 5-lobed. Filaments 1J? lin. long, filiform; anthers oblong, 

 f lin. long, yellow. Ovary globose ; style 1| lin. long, slightly thickened 

 upwards ; stigma subcapitate ; berry globose, J in. in diam., smooth. 

 — Dunal in DC. Proclr. xiii. i. 445 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, iv. 466 ; Hook, 

 f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 238 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 351 ; Hiern in Cat. 

 Afr. PI. Welw. i. 750 ; C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 106. 

 P. angulata, R. Br. in Speke, Nile, App. 641, not of Linn. P. cequata, 

 Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 119, not of Jacq. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Roger, 132 ! Sierra Leone, Scott -U 11 iot, 4086 ! 

 Lasros, Rowland ! Datvodu, 289 ! Siberia : Grant's Farm, Sinoe River, Whyte / 

 Gold Coast, Burton Sf Cameron ! Togo : near Lome, Warnecke, 192 ! Southern 

 Nigeria: Attah (Idda) on tbe Niger, Vogel, 66! Old Calabar, Holland, 14 1 

 Cameroons : Batanga, Bates, 119! 



Wile Land. Eritrea, Schweinfurth 4" Riva, 593 ! Niamniam, Schweinfurth, 

 2486 ! 3680 ! Uganda, Wilson, 150 ! Whyte ! Unyoro, Speke cf Grant ! 



Lower Guinea. Lower Congo : Lutete, Sens, A, 262 ! Angola : various 

 localities, WeUitsch, 6026 ! 6055 ! 6056 ! 6057 ! 605S ! 6059 ! 



Mozamb. 32ist. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi and its Delta, 

 Mazzaro and Shupanga, Kirk! Moranibala and Vicente, Scott! British Central 

 Africa: Nyasaland ; Namasi, Cameron! Zomba Plains, Whyte ! 



2. P. pubescens, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1, 183. An annual pubescent 

 much-branched herb. Stem erect or procumbent, 1-2 ft. high. 

 Leaves ovate or cordate, unequal at the base, from nearly entire to 

 coarsely toothed, densely villous, sometimes glabrescent, about 2 in. 

 long. Flowers pendulous; pedicels 3-5 lin. long. Calyx in flower 

 campanulate, in fruit ovoid-acuminate, retuse at the base ; lobes long- 

 acuminate from a triangular base. Corolla dull yellow spotted with 

 purplish-brown at the base, not exceeding i i n - in diam. Anthers 

 violet.— Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 446 ; Sendtn. in Mart. Fl. Bras, 

 x. 132 ; A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ii. i. 234 ; Dewevre in Comptes- 

 rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxiii. 103. P. barbadensis, Jacq. Misc. ii. 359, 

 and Ic. t. M9. — Solarium vesiearium virginianum, etc., Moris. Hist. iii. 

 527, § 13, t. 3, tig. 24. 



lower Guinea. Congo, Lemaire. 



ESosamb. Uist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland; Blantyre, Descamps. 



