"242 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Physalis. 



Dial, yet the plants are reared annually from seed, as they are not 

 fruitful after the first year. The same is the case with the Capsicums 

 and the many varieties of Solatium Melongena. 



Obs. by N. W. 



In India where every thing that serves to remind ws of Europe 

 is cherished, this fruit is called Gooseberry, and with an effort of 

 the imagination it may tolerably well pass for a real one, as it 

 possesses a faint resemblance to the flavour of that fruit. It ir 

 as large as a full-sized cherry, globular, yellow, and at length orange- 

 colored. Its taste is pleasantly acid, which renders it peculiarly 

 suited for tarts. It is always served on the table enveloped and 

 nearly concealed in the arid membranous calyx. The Hinds naiusi 

 is Mako.— N. W. 



4. P. minima, Willd, spec. i. 1024. 



Annual, ramous, downy. Leaves double or single, and then with 

 a branchlet, o\ate, irregularly dentate. Flowers solitary, erect. Stig- 

 mas entire. Fruit pendulous. 



Jnota-Inodien, Rheed. mat. x. ceu-Moctce, 139. t. 70. 



Seng. Bun Tepwiya. 



Hind. Too!ati-pat». 



A small ramous annual, common on cultivated ground, both ia 

 Bengal and on the coast of Coromandel. 



Stem short, but distinct ; branches many, two-forked, striated, a 

 little downy. — heaves double, except at the divisions of the branch- 

 lets, vthere they are single, the smaller branchlets occupying the 

 place of the other; unequal, petioled, cordate, irregularly toothed, 

 downy on both side ; from two to four inches long. — Peduncles 

 solitary, axillary, erect, one-flowered. Flowers small, campanulate, 

 uniform pale yellow, and smooth.— Filaments a little hairy, yellow. 



5. P. stramonifolia, Wall. 



Perennial ? dichotomous, villous, while young densely tonaentose' 



