350 



both ends, one smaller than the other : flowers lateral, fascicled j 

 calyx quite entire : berry size of a pea, smooth and red, 2-celled, 



Phoonda Ghaut. 



GENUS n. PHYSALIS. 

 Pentandria IHonogyiila.. Ser -. Sytt .• 



Deriv. IVom Physa, a bladder ; alluding to the calyx. 



. Gen. Char. Calyx 5-cleft or 5-toothed, increasing after flower-, 

 ing, inflated like a bladder : corolla rotate-campanulate, plicate, 

 limb S-sinuate with as many acute angles : stamens included :. 

 filaments free, filiform : anthers erect, a half shorter than the 

 filaments or nearly equalling them, conniverit, dehiscing length- 

 wise : ovary 2-celled : placenta subglobose, adnate to the dis- 

 sepiment, many-ovuled : style simple : stigma capitate : berry 

 covered by a connivent inflated calyx, globose, 2-celled, placentse 

 thick : seeds many, _ reniform com^presaed : embryo fleshy.' — 

 Annual or perennial herbs : leaves alternate or twin, entire on 

 lobed : flowers solitary, extra-axillary. 



(1) P. Hermanni. {Dec.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XIII. p. 1. p. 444. 



Syn. P. pseudo-angulata, Blume. 



Spec. Char. Branched: stems slender : leaves petioled, ovate, 

 acute, repandj somewhat entire, or sinuately toothed, glabrous : 

 flowers small, drooping: peduncles capillaceous, hairy: calyx hir- 

 sute : corolla funnel-shaped, campanulate, marked with five spots 

 at the base : fructiferous calyx angular, bladdery, closed, 5-toothed 

 at the apex, glabrous : flowers yellowish. 



Roadsides and waste places in Malabar. 



(2) P. MINIMA. (Linn. J 



Ident. Linn. Spec. I. 263. — Dec. prod. XIII. p. 1. p. 445, 



Syn. P. parviflora. Lag. — P. Lagascae, Roem. ^ Schult. 



Engrav. Rheede Mai. X. t. 140. 



Spec. Char. Herbaceousj loosely villous with diffuse branches : 

 leaves subcordate or ovate, acuminate, repandly toothed or almost 

 entire, hairy : corolla without spots : anthers yellow : calyx of the 

 fruit ovate, angled, here and there hairy : segmejits while flowering, 

 triangular acuminate, shorter than the tube : flowers small, pale 

 yellow. 



, Peninsula. Hindostan. Flowering nearly all the year. 



