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flower and erect, thickened, rigid and somewhat elongated in fruit, 
1 to 1'25 in. long. Calyx glabrous ; limb truncate with 5 shortly pro- 
jecting, spreading teeth -12 in. in diam. Corolla - 2 in. in diam., rotate, 
5-toothed. Ovary glabrous. Fruit erect, narrow to globose, bright red, 
•2 to - 25 in. in diam. Irish Miss. Bot. Gard. Rep. IX. 97. 
Var. typica. Fruits ovate or sub-cylindric, acute, -75 in. long, -2 in. 
in diam. C. frutescens, Wall. Cat. 2642 B.C. C. minimum, Roxb. 
Hort. Beng. 17, Flor. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 261, and ed. propr. I. 
574 ; Wall. Cat. 2641 ; Blanco, Flor. Filip. 133 ; Dun. in DC. Prod. 
XIII. 415 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 659 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. 
Ind. IY. 239. C. fastigiatum, Bl. Bijdr. 705 ; Nees Trans. Linn. Soc. 
XVII. 64; Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 416; Wight Ic. t. 1617; Miq. Flor. 
Ind. Bat. II. 659 ; Bentl. & Trim. Med. PI. t. 188. 
In all the provinces, cultivated and as an escape. 
Var. baccata, Irish l.c. 99. Fruit elliptic-obtuse or globose, '25 to 
•3 in. long, '25 in. in diam. Capsicum baccatum, Linn. Ment. 46 ; Ham. 
in Wall. Cat. 2644. C. angustifolium, Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 420. 
Nicobars : cultivated, Jetinek 137 ! 138 ! 
3. Physalis, Linn. 
Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, entire sinuate or 
shortly lobed. Pedicels axillary, solitary. Calyx campanulate, 5-partite 
in flower, the tube much enlarged and inflated in fruit, loosely enclosing 
the berry; teeth small, connivent. Corolla campanulate, yellow. 
Stamens 5, attached near base of corolla ; anthers oblong, shorter than 
filaments, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled ; style columnar ; 
stigma obscurely 2-lobed. Fruit berry-like, globose. Seeds few or 
many, disk-like ; embryo peripheric.— Distrib. Species about 34, 
mostly tropical American. 
Physalis minima, Linn. A herbaceous pubescent or glabrescent 
annual, erect or with procumbent straggling branches, 6 to 15 in. high. 
Leaves petioled, ovate, sinuate angular or hardly lobed ; 2 in. long, 
■75 in. wide, green on both surfaces ; petioles 1 in. Flowers small, 
axillary, solitary ; pedicels - 25 to - 5 in. Calyx hirsute or glab- 
rescent ; in flower '1 to - 2 in., with lanceolate lobes as long as tube, in 
fruit -75 to 1 in., ovoid or sub-globose, 5-10-ribbed, the teeth sub- 
connivent and little altered. Corolla yellow, - 25 in. across, glabrous, 
campanulate, 5-toothed. Ovary glabrous. Fruits yellow, globose, '5 in. 
across, completely enveloped by the accrescent calyx. Seeds very many, 
•1 in. in diam., discoid, reticulated, hardly scabrous. 
Var. typica; calyx not distinctly angled, all parts more or less 
pubescent. P. minima, Linn. Sp. PI. 183 ; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
