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XVII. 69 ; Roxb. Flor. Ind. I. 563 ; Dun. in DO. Prod. XIII. 445 ; 
Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 238 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 664. 
P. parviflora, R. Br. Prod. 447. P. divaricata, Don Prod. 97. 
P. villosa, Roth Nov. Sp. 122. P. Bothiana, Roem. & Schult. Syst. IV. 
677. P. Hermanni, Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 444. 
Perak : Scortechini ! Malacca : Griffith ! Andamans : common in 
waste places. — Distrib. A cosmopolitan tropical weed. 
Var. indica, Clarke Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 238; calyx distinctly 
■5-angled, all parts nearly glabrous. C. indica, Lamk Encyc. Meth. 
II. 102; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 70; Dun. in DC. Prod. 
XIII. 443 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 662. P. pseudoangulata, Bl. 
Bijdr. 706 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 663. P. angulata, Griff. Notul. 
IV. 96. Nicandra indica, Roem. & Schult. Syst. IV. 632. 
Perak : Kota Bahru, Kunstler, 568 ! Ipoh, Curtis 3190 ! Penang : 
Dcschamps ! common. Selangor: Bidley 10548! Nicobars: coasts, 
common. — Distrib. India generally. 
The Cape Gooseberry, or Winter Cherry ( Physalis peruviana), is cultivated in 
European gardens in the cold weather. 
4. Datura, Linn. 
Suffruticose, rank-smelling, glabrous or minutely pubescent herbs. 
Leaves large, entire, sinuate or deeply toothed. Pedicels solitary, 
flowers very large, purple or white. Calyx long-tubular, herbaceous, 
apex 5-toothed ; in fruit circumscissile above the base. Corolla nar- 
rowly tubular-funnel-shaped ; throat widened, limb plaited, entire 
or shortly lobed. Stamens attached near base of tube, filaments fili- 
form ; anthers included, linear, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 
2-celled, or 4-celled by the formation of spurious dissepiments; 
style filiform ; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit a capsule, ellipsoid, 4-eelled, 
spinous, more or less completely 4-valved. Seeds very many, com- 
pressed, rugose ; embryo peripheric. — Distrib. Species 10, temperate 
.and tropical. 
Datura fastuosa, Linn. Syst. ed. X. 932. A coarse annual, 3 to 
8 feet high, all parts glabrescent or very faintly puberulous. Leaves 
petioled, membranous, ovate, entire or deeply toothed, glabrous, green ; 
6 to 8 in. long, 3 to 4 in. across, base unequal ; petioles 1 in. Flowers 
very large, solitary, pedicels '25 to '5 in., erect in flower, recurved in 
fruit. Calyx tubular, 2'5 to 3 in. long, - 5 in. wide, lobes lanceolate, 
•25 in. long. Corolla purple or white, 7 in. long, base ‘5, throat 1'5, limb 
3 to 5 in. in diam., shortly 5-6-toothed. Ovary glabrous. Capsules 
sub-globose, 4-celled, equally spinous on all sides, irregularly dehiscent 
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