Physalis.] SOLANACE. 749 
1393/5. uae CERASIFORMIS Mill. C. cerasiforme F. I. i, 574. 
C. grossum var. cerasiformis F. B, I. iv. 239. 
Cultivated occasionally in European gardens. 
A shrubby herb. Cherry-pepper. 
1893/6. Var. nigra. C. purpureum F. I. i. 574. 
Cultivated occasionally in native gardens. 
‘A shrubby herb. Purple Chillie 
1394. Capsicum rRrurescens Linn. C. minimum F, I. i. 574; 
. B. 1. iv. 289; KE. D. 0. 466 
Cultivated, but not very extensively ; quite naturalised 
in waste places in all the provinces. 
A much-branched shrub. Bird’s Eye Chillie of Euro- 
peans. Vernac. Dhan gachh mirich or Dhan lanka 
mirich, 
aia oe Bacoata Irish. C. minimum F. B. I. iv. 239 in part. 
Cultivated occasionally. 
A much-branched shrub. Brazil Pepper or Pimentas, 
637. Physalis Linn. 
nual or perennial herbs; leaves alternate, entire, sinuate, or 
Shortly lobed. Flowers solitary, axillary, pedicelled. Sepals con- 
nate in a campanulate, 5-fid calyx, much accrescent in fruit, limb 
then ventricose, loosely enclosing thé fruit ; teeth small, connivent. 
Petals 5, connate in a campanulate, lurid-yellow corolla, some- 
i of the tube. Stamens 
am 
Carpels connate in a 2-celled o ovary ; style linear ; stigma obscurely 
2lobed. Frwit a globose berry, enveloped in te bladder-like 
calyx. Seeds many or few, smooth or rugose, compressed; 
embryo peripheric 
Corolla -25 in. across or less ; wad in fruit not Over 1 in. in length, 
OVoid or subglobose ; berry not over °5 in. across, insipi 
Leaves and fruiting calyx pubescent; calyx globose or faintly angular ; 
corolla clear-yellow or, rarely, with 5 small basal spots .........minima. 
Leaves and fruiting calyx glabrescent; calyx diatinetly 3 angular ; 
corolla clear-yellow minima var. indica, 
Corolla -5 in. across rice more ; calyx in fruit almost always over 1 in. in 
length, usually 1-5-1-75 in., ovoid-conical ; berry over ‘5 in. across, 
latable ; pst sae truiting calyx usually villous or — corolla 
with always 5 large purple spots near base within .... -.-peruviana. 
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