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65. ATROPACEJE. 
tfTribe IY. Nicandrece. 
ft 5. Nicandra Adans. 
ttl. N. physaloides* Grtn. 
The only known sp . — u Gartn. Fr. ii. 237, t. 131 ; ” BM. 
t. 2458 ; WB. iii. 283 ; Dun. in DC. xiii. 434 ; Miers Illustr. ii. 
34, t. 43. JS\ physalodes Pers. i. 219 ; Spr. i. 699. Atropa phy- 
saloides Ait. Ilort. Kew (ed. 2) i. 392. A. physalodes Linn. Sp. 
260 (descr. opt.). (C Physalis peruviana] Mill. Diet. no. 16” (not 
Linn.). P. daturcefolia Lam. Diet. ii. 1C2 (descr. opt.) ; 111. no. 
2410. te Alkekengi amplo jiore violaceo Feuill. Peruv. ii. 724, 
t. 16.” — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, c. Sparingly here and there 
in waste ground, borders of corn-fields, 'by roadsides or a weed in 
gardens, vineyards, &c., about and above Funchal chiefly. 
Sept. -May. — Very variable in size from 2 or 3 in. with simple 
st. to mostly 1-3 ft., branched and leafy. Whole pi. smooth 
scentless and tasteless. Branches stout stiff angular shining pale 
gr. L. rather large shining dark gr. oblong or oval-oblong acute 
unequal and cuneato-decurrent at the base all down the petiole, 
very unequally sinuato-toothed and angular 2-5 or 6 in. long, 
1-4 broad, the winged petioles |-14 i R - l° n g- Pedic. 1-fld. soli- 
tary (rarely binate) from the side of each petiole at its base or 
slightly supraaxillary, |-1 in. long- round slender arcuately cer- 
nuous. Cal. even in fl. large inflated leafy pale gr. reticulatelv 
veined and membranous, curiously 5-winged at the base by the 
abrupt turning outwards or reduplication of the lower lateral 
margins of the subapiculately acute erect lobes; each wing sub- 
sagittate or ending abruptly in an acute or subaristate angle at its 
base. Fl. handsome scentless ; cor. campanulate delicate pale b., 
throat w. with 5 radiating deeper b. spots. Fil. dilated arched 
and hairy at the base forming connivently a vault over the ov. 
Fr. drooping ; cal. much enlarged, sharply and prominently 5- 
winged, dry and scarious, closing over and quite concealing the 
berry ; the latter globose, the size of a cherry, pale straw-col. or 
yellowish brown 4-5-celled, perfectly dry in all stages, finally 
bursting or breaking up irregularly. Seeds very numerous 
roundish-lenticular dark y. or tawny. 
In 1828 I observed several pi. of this sp. in England, growing 
luxuriantly on a manure-heap by the roadside a little way out 
of Hatherne near Loughboro’ in Leicestershire. 
Wonderfully variable in size and luxuriance, ranging from 
* Tho form physaloides ia not correct; but it ia at any rate better 
than physalodes, which would mean (if not a mere misprint) aflinity 
to (ftooaXos, a toad, instead of resemblance to < puoaXis , a bubble. 
