240 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA- Physalis, 



and concave sides; mouth divided into five ovate, acute, keeled 

 teeth. Corolla yellowish-white, smooth ; tube cylindric, twice the 

 length of the calyx.; limb spreading, nearly two inches in diame. 

 ter, with five distant, longish, incurved teeth. — Capsule ovate, obtuse, 

 four-furrowed, erect, pubescent, short-peduncled, two inches long, 

 well furnished with strong spines of unequal length, supported by 

 the persistent bottom of the calyx, which is retiexed, truncated, 

 annular, having four excavations underneath ; divided from top to 

 bottom into four valves, four-celled, apex itself two-celled. Seeds 

 black, compressed, ovai-reniform, smooth, rugose and dotted. 



Obs. My most respected fiiend Dr. J. Fleming is mistaken in 

 excluding D. Stramonium from this country (see his interesting ca- 

 talogue quoted above, and the separate 8vo edition, p. 18). 1 dare 

 not venture to separate my plant from dial species, except as a varU 

 ety, distinguished by its greater s'ze, pale glaucous-colour and. pube- 

 scence : the flower is always singe and of a yellowish white colour, 

 possessing strongly the smell of the parent plant. It approaches to 

 'Satula in stature, but differs in the colour of the stem and flower* 

 — N. VV. 



PHYSALIS. Schreb. Gen. N. 336. 



Calyx gibbous, five-toothed. Corol rotate. Berry superior, 

 within the inflated calyx, two-celled, many-seeded. 



1. P.Jlexuosa, Willd. spec. i. 1020. 



Shrubby ; branches flexuose. Leaves oblong, often paired. Flow* 

 ers axillary, crowded, sessde. 



Pevetti, Rheed. mat iv. 113. t. 55. 



Beng. Cshwa-gwndha. 



Telinz Penneroo. 



This perennial species is to be found in almost every soil and 

 situation. Flowers all the year round. 



