Deprea Raf.

pedicels slender. Flowers small, the calyx campanulate to cyathiform with 5 short, narrow teeth extending from major veins of the limb, the sinuses squarrose and not splitting, giving the calyx a truncate appearance, in fruit enlarging to loosely envelop the fruit, the base with no indication of invagination, the teeth not enlarging; the corolla campanulate, 5-lobed; the stamens 5, equal, the fila- This content downloaded from 192.104.39.2 on Tue, 14 May 2013 16:07:58 PMAll use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions626 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN [VOL. 60 ments inserted near the top of the corolla tube, the anthers oblong, dehiscing longitudinally, slightly exserted. Fruit a berry loosely enveloped by the ac-crescent calyx. This genus is doubtfully distinct from Physalis, differing mainly in the lobed corolla and in the truncate appearance of the calyx. Dried material looks significantly different from that of most species of Physalis because of the absence of evagination in the base of the calyx, but there are a number of Physalis species which have this appearance. The name Athenaea, based on Witheringia picta Mart., is conserved over Deprea Raf., based on Physalis orinocensis Kunth. and P. xalapensis Kunth. The two Kunth species (type material at P) are congeneric with one another but not with Witheringia picta, which has a calyx unequally lobed nearly to the base, a condition quite different from that found in the Kunth species.