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GENUS III. WITHANIA. 



Pentandria ItEonosynia. Sex : Syst .■ 



Gen. Chae. Galyx oampannlate, 5-cleft or 5-parted : segments 

 Bubulate, inflated after flowering, more or less covering th,e berry, 

 afterwards withering : corolla campanulate,- "ftimier-shaped or 

 somewhat fotate, longer than the calyx, 5-cleft : stamens inserted 

 on the tube of the' corolla, included : filaments subulate, often 

 dilated at the base, naked ol* scaly': atithers yellow, oblong, de- 

 hiscing lengthwise : ovary ovate-globose, glabrous, surrounded 

 at the base by a thin glandular annular disk?- 2,celled, many, 

 ovuled : style simple, straight, subulate : stigma capitate : berry 

 globose, 2-celled, covered more or less by a withering inflated 

 calyx : seed? many, somewhat reniform. 



(1) W. soMNiFERA. (Dec^) 



Ideni. Dec. ptod. XIII. p. 1. p. 453. 



Syn. Physalis somnifera, Nees. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 853. 



Spec. Char. Undershrub, more or less tomentose : hairs stel« 

 late, soft, hoary, caducous: stems erect : branches more or less 

 flexuose : leaves entire, ovate, obovate or oblong, obtuse, attenuat- 

 ed into the petiole, twin : flowers short-pedicelled, pressed together ; 

 fruit-bearing pedicels more or less drooping. 



Var. ifiexuosa. Branches more flexuose, less tomentose : flowers 

 smaller, pale greenish. — Physalis flexuosa, Linn. Rheede. Mai. 

 rX. t. 55. 



Coromandel. Concans. Bengal. Flowering nearly all the 

 year. 



(2) W. ? ARBORESCENS. ( DecJ 



Ident. Dec. prod. XIII. p. 1. p. 455. 



Syn. Physalis arborescens. Lam. 



Spec Char.. Shrub: branches straight or slightly twisted; 

 hark grey : leaves solitary or twin, repand or obsoletely angled 

 a dirty green above, slightly tomentose and ash-coloured below . 

 flowers pendulous, solitary or 3-4-5-6 together, short-pediceJled. 



Malabar. 



