338 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



flower and erect, thickened, rigid and somewhat elongated in fruit, 

 1 to l"2o in. long. Calyx glabrous ; limb truncate with 5 shortly pro- 

 jecting, spreading teeth -12 in. in diam. Corolla -2 in. in diam., rotate, 

 5-toothed. Ovary glabrous. Fruit erect, narrow to globose, bright red, 

 ■2 to -25 in. in diam. Irish Miss. _Bot. Gard. Eep. IX. 97. 



Var. typica. Fruits ovate or sub-cylindric, acute, "75 in. long, -2 in. 

 in diam. C. frutescens, Wall. Cat. 2642 B.C. C. minimum, Eoxb. 

 Hort. Beng. 17, Flor. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 261, and ed. propr. I. 

 574 ; Wall. Cat. 2641 ; Blanco, Flor. Filip. 133 ; Dun. in DC. Prod. 

 XIII. 415 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 659 ; Clarke in Hook, f . Flor. Brit. 

 Ind. IV. 239. C. fastigiatum, Bl. Bijdr. 705 ; Nees Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 XVII. 64; Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 416; Wight Ic. t. 1617; Miq. Flor. 

 Ind. Bat. II. 659 ; Bentl. & Trim. Med. PL t. 188. 



In all the provinces, cultivated and as an escape. 



Vae. haccata, Irish I.e. 99. Fruit elliptic- obtuse or globose, "25 to 

 •3 in. long, '25 in. in diam. Capsicum baccatum, Linn. Ment. 46 ; Ham. 

 in Wall. Cat. 2644. C. angustifolium, Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 420. 

 NicoBAES : cultivated, Jelinek 137 ! 138 ! 



3. Physalis, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, entire sinuate or 

 shortly lobed. Pedicels axillary, solitary. Calyx campanulate, 5 -partite 

 in flower, the tube much enlarged and inflated in fruit, loosely enclosing 

 the berry ; teeth small, connivent. Corolla campanulate, yellow. 

 Stamens 5, attached near base of corolla ; anthers oblong, shorter than 

 filaments, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled ; style columnar ; 

 stigma obscurely 2-lobed. Fruit berry-like, globose. Seeds few or 

 many, disk-like ; embryo peripheric. — Distrib. Species about 34, 

 mostly tropical American. 



Physalis minima, Linn. A herbaceous pubescent or glabrescent 

 annual, erect or with procumbent straggling branches, 6 to 15 in. high. 

 Leaves petioled, ovate, sinuate angular or hardly lobed ; 2 in. long, 

 •75 in. wide, green on both surfaces ; petioles 1 in. Floivers small, 

 axillary, solitary ; pedicels "25 to "5 in. Calyx hirsute or glab- 

 rescent ; in flower -1 to "2 in., with lanceolate lobes as long as tube, in 

 fruit -75 to 1 in., ovoid or sub-globose, 5-10-ribbed, the teeth sub- 

 connivent and little altered. Corolla yellow, -25 in. across, glabrous, 

 campanulate, 5-toothed. Ovary glabrous. Fruits yellow, globose, '5 in. 

 across, completely enveloped by the accrescent calyx. Seeds very many, 

 •1 in. in diam., discoid, reticulated, hardly scabrous. 



Var. typica ; calyx not distinctly angled, all parts more or less 

 pubescent. P. minima, Linn. Sp. PI. 183; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. 



