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meuts subparallel, longitudinally dehiscent. Dick none. Ovary 

 2-celled ; style filiform ; stigma bifid ; ovnles numerous. Berry 

 pendulous, solitary or few-fasciculate, globose or ellipsoid, fleshy 

 (not ' rather dry '), concealed in the persistent much accrescent 

 fleshy green cal3^x, more or less shorter than the calyx. Seeds 

 numerous, covering the surface of the thick placenta, compressed, 

 minutely rugoso-foveolate. 



Perennial herb ; roots ramose ; stem terete, subangulate, 

 erect, or then sometimes declinate, moderately sized, often laxh^ 

 furcately ramose, thinh" puberulent. Leaves petiolate, wide- 

 ovate to ovato-lanceolate, oblique towards the base, often 

 dispersedly puberulent and ciliated, entire, alternate, binate 

 with unequal-sized leaves. Flower small, axillary, solitary or 

 few-aggregate, pedicellate, cernuous, pale and not tinged with 

 purple. 



This genus is very closely allied to Physalis, from which it 

 differs in having the fleshy and not bladder\--inflated calyx, and 

 it is also distinguished from Chamaesaracba, an American 

 genus, in having the campanulated (not rotate) corolla, indu- 

 plicato-valvate (not plicate) corolla-lobes and the much enlar- 

 ged fleshy persistent calj^x. It comes near to Leuco physalis, 

 which is also an American genus, but the latter diffeis from 

 my genus in having the rotate and plicate corolla. There are 

 in Japan the following two species. 



Chinese Chamsesaracba sinensis Hemsl. (in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. XXVI. p. 174) and CA. ? heterophylla Hemsl. (I.e.) come 

 probably within the limitation of my new genus. 

 V Physaliastrum echinatum (Yatabe) Makixo, nom. 



Cbamassaracha echinata Yatabe in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, V. 

 n. 56 (Oct. 10, 1891), p. 317, V. n. 57 (Nov. 10, 1891), p. 

 355, tab. 30, et Iconogr. Fl. Jap. L 2 (1892), p. 121, tab. 33. 



Cbamassaracha japonica Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. 

 IL (1879), p. 454, pro parte. 



Cbamassaracba japonica Making, Illustr. Fl. Jap. I. n. 11 

 (Oct. 9, 1891), p. 1, et in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XXII. (1908), 

 p. 33, repr. p. 9; M.\tsum. Ind. PI. Jap. IL 2 (1912), p. 554. 



