752 Lxxxviii. solanacejE. [Capsicum 



PuNGO Andongo. — Fruit ellipsoidal-clavate, pungent. Cultivated 

 in Sansamanda ; fr. 2 May 1857. Perhaps this species ; compare the 

 variety oUvceforme Dunal (C. oUvceforme Miller, I.e., n. 6). No. 6069- 



5. PHYSALOIDES Moench, Meth. PI. p. 473 (1794), non Suppl. 

 p. 178 (1802). 



Withania Pauq. Diss. Ballad, p. 14 (1824) ; Benth. & Hook. f. 

 Gen. PI. ii. p. 893. 



1. P. somnifera Moench, I.e. 



Physalis somnifera L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 182, n. 1 (1753) ; J. A. 

 Schmidt, Beitr. Fl. Cap. Verd. Ins. p. 236 (1852). Cf. Physalis 

 (sp.), Welw. in Bol. Cons. Ultr. Lisb. No. 7, p. 83, n. 74 (1854). 



Bengdella. — A herb, sometimes suffruticose, sometimes frutescent 

 and hard-woody at the base ; flowers sordid-yellow. In bushy sandy 

 submaritime places at the river Cavaoo, not uncommon ; fl. and fr. 

 19 June 1859. No. 6037. 



MossAMEDES. — A dichotomously branched, melancholy-looking 

 shrub, 4 to 7 or even 8 ft. high ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate, shortly 

 acute ; flowers yellowish ; berries scarlet. In sandy thickets at the 

 banks of the river Bero ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 60376. 



HuiLLA. — An erect undershrub ; stems several, 3 ft. high ; calyx 

 clothed with a snow-white felt when young and during the flowering, 

 afterwards turning green ; corolla from green to yellowish. In hilly 

 bushy rather dry places near LopoUo, sporadic ; fl. Jan. 1860. 

 No. 6035. 



Cape de Verde Islands. — In the island of San Thiago ; fr. 

 Jan. 1861. No. 6060. 



6. PENTAGONIA Heister ex Fabric! Enum. Bl. Hort. 

 Helmstad., edit. 1, p. 184 (1759) ; non Vent. (1841), nee Benth. 

 (1844), nee Moehring (1736). 



Physalodes Boehmer in Ludwig, Defin. Gen. PI., edit. 3, p. 41 

 (1760). Nicandra Adans. (1763); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 

 p. 897; nonSohreb. (1789). 



1. P, physalodes. 



A tropa physalodes L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 181 (1753). Nieandra 

 physaloides Gsertn. Fruct. ii. p. 237, t. 131, f. 2 (1791); Welw. 

 Apontam. p. 551, sub n. 100. Physalodes penmianum 0. Kuntze. 

 Rev. Gen. PI. ii. p. 452 (1891). Ph. physalodes Britton in Mem. 

 Torr. Club, v. p. 287 (1894). 



LoANDA. — Attaining 2 ft., flowering when 6 in. high. Near Maianga 

 do Povo, wild ; fl. Jan. 1858. No. 6072. 



Prince's Island.— In fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. No. 6063. 



7. LYCIUM L. ; Benth. & Hook, f . Gen. PL ii. p. 900. 



1. L. deeumbens Welw. ms. in Herb., sp. n. 



A glabrescent shrublet, 1 to 1^ ft. high ; stems prostrate, 

 rather thick, somewhat ashy and shining, nodose, intricately 

 branched, spiny; branches rigid, mostly divaricate, nodose, 

 spiny ; branchlets , glandular-squamulose, leafy ; spines whitish, 

 very rigid, acute, patent, g- to |- in. long ; leaves alternate and 

 fasciculate, oblanceolate, rounded at the apex, wedge-shaped to 



