■238 cii. SOLANACE^. (0. B. Clarke.) [Physalis. 



2. FXZVSAX.XS, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, entire sinuate or shortly lohed. 

 Pedicels axiUary, solitary. Calyx campanulate, 5-fid half-way down ; in firuit 

 greatly enlarged, loosely enclosing the fruit ; teeth small, connivent. Corolla 

 campanulate, lurid-yellow, sometimes with purple spots below. Stamens 5, 

 attached near the base of the corolla ; anthers oolong, shorter than the 

 filaments, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled; style linear, stigma 

 obscurely 2-lobed. Berry globose. Seeds many or few, smooth or tuberculate- 

 rugose, compressed ; embryo peripheric. — Species 30, mostly of Tropical 

 America, several introduced in the Old World. 



1. P. minima, lAnn. ; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 69 ; leaves ovate 

 sinuate angular or scarcely lobed, corolla \ in., fruit-calyx ^-1 in. ovoid or 

 subglobose. Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 663 ; WaU. Cat. 2633 ; Dunal in DC. Brodr. xiii. 

 pt. i. 445. P. parviflora, Br. Prodr. 447 ; Dunal I. c. 444. P. divaricata, Don 

 JProdr. 97 ; Dunal I. c. 444. P. viUosa, Both Nov. Sp. 122. P. Rothiana, 

 Boem. Sr Sch. Syst. iv. 677. P. Hermanni, Dunal. I.e. 444. P. pubescens, 

 Wight III. t. 166 b. fig. 6, not of Linn. — Bheede Mart. Med. x. t. 71. 



Throughout Imdia, in the tropical region ; common. — Distbib. Tropical Asia, 

 Africa and Australia. 



An herbaceous, pubescent annual. Leaves 2 in. ; petiole 1 in. Pedicels J-J in. 

 Calyx at flower-time ^J in. ; lobes lanceolate, half the length of the calyx, often 

 hirsute, sometimes glabrescent. Corolla clear yellow ; or, in the less common form 

 (P. Hermanm), spotted within at the base. Berry J in. diam. ; frait-ealyx globose, 5- 

 or 10-ribbed. Seeds very many, i in. diam., discoid, reticulated, scarcely scabrous. 

 — ^Roxburgh says that his S. pubescens was the same as P. pemviaTia. The sheet of 

 Rotder's marked S. pvhescens by Heyne is P. minima with one piece of 8. peruviana 

 mixed. 



Vab. indica; glabrescent, fruiting calyx 5-angular. LamJe. JMct.u. 102; Nees in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 70 ; Dunal in SO. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 443. P. pseudo-angulata, 

 Blume Bijd. 706; Dunal I.e. 444. P. angulata, Wall, mss.; Griff. Notul. iv. 96. 

 Nicandra indiea, Boem. ^ Sch. iv. &62.— Bheede Hort. Mai. x. t. 70. — Throughout 

 India. The true P. angviata, Linn., occurs only cultivated in India. 



2. P. peruviana, Linn. ; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 67 ; leaves 

 ovate sinuate angular or scarcely lobed, corolla ^ in., fruit-calyx 1-lf in. ovoid 

 conic. Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 562 ; WaU. Cat. 2634 ; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. 

 i. 440; Dalz. Sr Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Append. 61. P. edulis, Sims Bot. Mag. t. 

 1068. P. pubescens, Don Prodr. 97. 



Throughout India, cultivated.— Disteib. Indigenous in Tropical America; exten- 

 sively cultivated in the Old World. 



Eesembling P. minima, but stouter, flowers and fruit-calyx larger, usually villous 

 or pubescent. Corolla with 5 large purple spots near the base within. — Cape Goose- 

 berry of the EngUsh denizens. 



2*. CAPSICITin, Unn. 



Annual or perennial herbs, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves entire or repand. 

 Pedicels axillary or 2-3 together. Calyx campanulate, subentire or minutely 

 5-toothed, much shorter than the fruit. Corolla rotate; lobes 5, valvate in 

 bud. Stamens 5, attached near the base of the coroUa ; anthers not longer 

 than the filaments, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2- rarely 3-ceUed ; style 

 linear, stigma subcapitate. Berry very variable in form and size, many- 



