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64. SOLANACEJE. 
4. Normania *. Cal. leafy 5-partite open and enlarged in 
fr. with erect or erecto-patent herbaceous leafy lobes, not 
bladdery or contracted at the mouth or inclosing or con- 
cealing the berry. Cor. widely rotato-campanulate, limb 
5-angular or shortly 5-lobed plicato-valyate (as in Phy- 
salis). Stam. 5 unequal, scarcely exserted; til. simple 
shorter than the antli. dilated and coadnate at the base into 
a narrow ring ; anth. erect distinct free (not connivent) 
unequal, the lower 2-8 mostly arcuato-elongate and often 
with a gibbous or spur-like or even short-liorn-like lobe 
inside towards the base, the 2 cells turgid downwards, 
united laterally nearly to their base and bursting (by a pore 
at first, then) longitudinally and outwardly all their length. 
Style simple ; stigma subcapitate subbilobed. Fr. berry- 
like globose 2-1 -celled juicy or pulpy many- (about 20-) 
seeded surrounded by the enlarged leafy more or less loosely 
spreading or erect cal. -lobes. Seeds as in Solatium . — 
Succulent branched herbs or sometimes sarmentoselv suf- 
frutescent, viscid-villose. Lower 1. 3-5-pinnatisect, upper 
simple subentire, ltac. pedunculate subaxillary many-fld. 
simple or rarely bifid ; pedic. secund, drooping in fl., de- 
flexed in fr., not articulate to fl. or rachis. Fl. subcon- 
spicuous v.-b. or lilac. Fr. blood-red or scarlet. Strictly 
Macaronesian (Mad. and Can.) sporadic pi. 
Tribe II. PIIYSALIDEPE. 
The Winter-cherry Tribe. 
Cal. leafy and conspicuously enlarged in fr. Cor. 5-angularly 
subrotato-campanulate. Anth. free distinct short, bursting 
longitudinally. Fr. entirely enclosed within the vesicular in- 
flated cal. which is contracted at the mouth. — Pubescent often 
viscose herbs. Fl. axillary solitary rarely 2-3-nate. 
ttb. Pelysalis. Cal. 5-toothed or 5-fid leafy, much enlarged' 
inflated and membranous in fr. and closed or contracted at 
the mouth. Cor. widely subrotato-campanulate, limb 5- 
angular plicato-vnlvate in bud. Stam. 5 subincluded, til. 
connivent originating from 5 adnate scales at base of cor. ; 
anth. erect short free distinct bursting longitudinally. Fr. 
berry-like globose juicy 2-celled manv-seeded, enclosed 
completely within the 5-angularly globose capsuliform 
inflated bladdery reticulated cal. Seeds numerous small 
compressed re ni form ; embryo half-annular; cot. semiterete. 
* Tn honorcm Francisci M. Norman, Classis Peg. Brit, navarchi, 
inter indagatores Florae Mad. optima merentis. 
