Flora of the Malayan Peninstda. 339 



XVII. 69 ; Eoxb. Flor. Ind. I. 563 ; Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 445 ; 

 Clarke in Hook, f . Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 238 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 664. 

 F. parviflora, E. Br. Prod. 447. P. divaricata, Don Prod. 97. 

 P. villosa, Roth Nov. Sp. 122. P. Bothiana, Eoem. & Schult. Syst. IV. 

 677. P. Bermanni, Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 444. 



Pekak : Scortechini ! Malacca : Griffith ! Andamans : common in 

 waste places. — Disteib. A cosmopolitan tropical weed. 



Var. indica, Clarke Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 238 ; calyx distinctly 

 •5-angled, aU parts nearly glabrous. C. itidica, Lamk Encyc. Meth. 

 II. 102; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 70; Dun. in DC. Prod. 

 XIII. 443; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 662. P. pseudoangulafa, Bl. 

 Bijdr. 706 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 663. P. angulata, Griff. Notul. 

 IV. 96. Nicandra indica, Eoem. & Schult. Syst. IV. 632. 



Peeak : Kota Bahru, Kunstler, 568 ! Ipoh, Curtis 3190 ! Pbnang : 

 Deschamps ! common. Selangoe : Bidley 10548 ! Nicobaes : coasts, 

 ■common. — Disteib. India generally. 



The Cape Gooseberry, or Winter Cherry (Physalis peruviana), is cultivated in 

 European gardens in the cold weather. 



4. Datuea, Linn. 



Suffruticose, rank- smelling, glabrous or minutely pubescent herbs. 

 Leaves large, entire, sinuate or deeply toothed. Pedicels soHtary, 

 flowers very large, purple or white. Calyx long-tubular, herbaceous, 

 apex 5-toothed ; in fruit circumscissile above the base. Corolla nar- 

 rowly tubular-funnel-shaped ; throat widened, limb plaited, entire 

 or shortly lobed. Stamens attached near base of tube, filaments fili- 

 form ; anthers included, linear, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 

 2-celled, or 4:-celled by the formation of spurious dissepiments ; 

 style fihform ; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit a capsule, ellipsoid, 4-celled, 

 spinous, more or less completely 4-valved. Seeds very many, com- 

 pressed, rugose ; embryo peripheric. — Disteib. Species 10, temperate 

 and tropical. 



Datuea fastuosa, Linn. Syst. ed. X. 932. A coarse annual, 3 to 

 8 feet high, all parts glabrescent or very faintly puberulous. Leaves 

 petioled, membranous, ovate, entire or deeply toothed, glabrous, green ; 

 6 to 8 in. long, 3 to 4 in. across, base unequal ; petioles 1 in. Flowers 

 very large, soHtary, pedicels '25 to "5 in., erect in flower, recurved in 

 fruit. Calyx tubular, 2-5 to 3 in. long, "5 in. wide, lobes lanceolate, 

 •25 in. long. Corolla purple or white, 7 in. long, base "5, throat 1-5, limb 

 3 to 5 in. in diam., shortly 5-6-toothed. Ovary glabrous. Capsules 

 sub-globose, 4-celled, equally spinous on all sides, irregularly dehiscent 



24 



