PHANEROGAMS— PROFESSOR BAYLEY BALFOUR. 197 



are widely dispersed over the world, save one which is restricted to south 

 Europe, Africa, and southern Asia. 



1. SOLANUM. 



Solanum, Linu. Gen. n. 251 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PL ii. 888. 



A huge cosmopolitan genus attaining its maximum of development in 

 America. Of the Socotran species one is cosmopolitan, one is widely spread 

 in tropics of the old world, the third is a south-west Asiatic species. 



1. S. nigrum, L. Sp. 266; Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. 1, 50; Ach. Rich. 

 Tent. Flor. Abyss, ii. 99 ; Boiss. Flor. Orient, iv. 284 ; Clarke in Hook. Flor. 

 Brit. Ind. iv. 229 ; Syme Eng. Bot. tt. 931, 932. 



For the very extensive synonymy, see the authors quoted. 



Socotra. Common near villages. B.C.S. n. 9. Schweinf. n. 401. 



Distrib. Cosmopolitan. 



2. S.indicum, Nees ab Esenb., in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. (1837), 55; Dunal 

 in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 309 ; Clarke in Hook. Flor. Brit. Ind. iv. 234 ; Wight Ic. 

 t. 346. 



Nom. Vern. Harchem (Schweinf.). 



Socotra. Common near villages. B.C.S. n. 68. Schweinf. n. 325. 

 Hunter 5. 



Distrib. Tropics of the old world. 



3. S. gracilipes, Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. Ind. 113, t. 119; Dunal in DC. 

 Prod. xiii. i. 286 ; Boiss. Flor. Orient, iv. 286 ; Clarke in Hook. Flor. Brit. Ind. 

 iv. 237. 



Nom. Vern. Mrchea (Schweinf.). 



Socotra. At the foot of the limestone hills, west from Tamarida. 

 Schweinf. n. 366. 



Distrib. Beloochistan and north-west India. Arabia ? 



Schweinfurth sends a couple of fragments of this species, which we did not 

 obtain. It is not improbable that this is the S. cor datum, Forsk. (Fl. ^Egypt. 

 Arab. 47), but in the absence of specimens of the latter, it is not possible to 

 decide. 



2. PHYSALIS. 



Physalis, Linn. Gen. n. 250 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PL ii. 890. 



A genus of thirty species of herbs or small undershrubs, chiefly American, 

 but dispersed all. over the world. 



P. minima, Linn. Sp. 263 ; Nees ab Esenb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 

 (1837), 69 ; Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. 1. 445 ; Clarke in Hook. Flor. Brit. Ind. 

 iv. 238. 



