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4. Normania Lowe. 
1. N. TRIPHYLLA (Lowe). 
Herb. arm. scentless subtomentoso-pubescent glandular- vis - 
cous ; st. branched from the base erect stiff" firm fistulous angular 
submarginate ; 1. petiolate ternatisect trifoliolate, terminal 1ft. 
petiolulate large ovate acute equal and often subcordate at the 
base, obsoletely and subrepandly (rarely sharply) toothed or 
entire, the 2 lateral subsessile smaller more oblong and entire, 
very unequal at the base ; a few of the lower 1. 5-foliolate, of 
the upper 1-foliolate simple ; rac. 5-10-fld. axillary or nearly so 
(at first terminal) erect more or less distinctly stalked, in fl. 
scorpioidally congested or corymbose, in fr. elongate ; fl. and 
fr. drooping unilateral ; ped. in fr. erecto-patent, pedic. strongly 
refracted and with the rachis and ped. wholly ebracteate and 
inarticulate ; berry the size of a small cherry, depresso-globose 
smooth even orange or dull deep blood-red (croceo-rubens or 
atro-sanguinea) more or less concealed by the much enlarged 
and leafy open cal. witli loosely erect or spreading leaf-like ovate- 
acute lobes. — Nycterium triphyllum Lowe Novit. 15 or 537. 
Solatium trisectum Dun. in DC. xiii. 36. Sol. Nava Reichenb. 
in WB. iii. 123, t. 174 ; Dun. 1. c. 37 (status suffrutescens) ? — 
Herb. ann. Mad. r eg. 2, 3, rr. u S. Vicente below the Gin- 
geiras, on the roadside to the Paul,” not above cultivation, at 
a height of 11 about 1000 ft., July 1837,” Dr. C. Lemann ; 
u above P t0 da Cruz, along the Levada dos Lamaceiros a little 
beyond the Rocha Furada,” Dr. Lippold ; in the Cerca at 
S. Antonio da Serra ; about a mile down the Voltas descending 
from the Cruzinhas to Seixal in a place amongst the forest or 
thick native brushwood lately cleared by fire. June-Sept. — 
In habit or aspect, foliage and fl. fallaciously like the common 
Potato ( Solatium tuberosum L.), but truly differing in its real 
affinities and characters ; altogether herbaceous and ann. Root 
fibrous, peculiarly small proportionately, with few short stiff 
pale or whitish subdivisions, not stoloniferous or tuberiferous. 
Whole pi. very viscid, with rather dark or dull gr. foliage, 1^- 
2 or 3 ft. high. Branches straight or slightly fiexuous, at first 
succulent, but presently hard stout and rigid, subtriangular 
and downwards slightly winged or marginate^ remarkably fis- 
tulose, clothed like the petioles, ped., rhachises, pedic. and cal. 
with dark greenish or tawny brown soft simple glandular-viscid 
spreading furry crisped or somewhat woolly hairs. L. soft and 
flaccid more shortly or finely adpresso-pubescent or velvety, 
much as in Physalis peruviana L. ; petioles 1 in. long ; lfts. all 
(except a few 1-foliolate of the uppermost, and 5-foliolate of 
the lower) ternate ; terminal 1ft. 2-3 in. long, 1-^—2 in. broad; 
the 2 lateral opposite, If in. long, f in. broad, very unequal 
