ALKEKENGI

n.?-ke2n’ji?. From Ar,al-kâkenj. Lat., alkekengi. Fr., alkékenge, alkékenge coqueret. Ger., Judenkirsche. It., alchechengi. Sp., alquequenje. Also written alcachingi. The winter-cherry, or Physale a. (q. v.), the A, oficinarum of Tournefort, A. Tournefortii and A. vulgare of others. A number of varieties are described by the older writers, such as_A, of ficin arum, or the variety found commonly in the shops; A. oficinarum foliis variegatis, a variety with variegated leaves; A. fructu parvo vert i cill a to, with small fruit arranged in whorls upon, the stalk; À. virintanum fructu luteo, a Virgin i an variety with yellow fruit; 4. indicum majus, A. americanum annuum ramosi imun Sructu ex luteo virescent i, an annual American variety with fruit changing from yellow to green; A. americanum annuum maximum viscosum, a large American variety; A. barb a dense petal (gen flore, fructu amplo, mucrone product i or i, a dwarf species from Barba- ‘does with a small flower and broad a pointed fruit; A. car as sav i cum, foliis origant in can is, fore viete sulphureo, fun do purpureo, à spe- ‘cies from Curacoa, with leaves resembling those of the origanum, and suiphur-yellow flowers, purple at the bottom; and À. americanum frutescens, fructu globoso rubro, vesica atro-purpure a, a shrubby American variety, with globose red fruit, having a darkurple bladder. Some of these varieties are probably to be reerred to distinct species of Physalis, [B, 200.|—Baccie a. (Lat.). Winter-cherries; the fruit of Physalis a.—Trochi sci a. (Lat.). Troches made up of fruit of Physalis a, 3 drs., gum arabic, tragacanth, olibanum, pine-nuts, sweet almonds, starch, licorice, Armenian bole, and ‘white-poppy seeds, of each, 6 drs., the seeds of melons, cucumbers, watermelons, and gourds, each, 3} drs., and the seeds of smallage and of white henbane, white amber, Lemnian earth, and Ontn each, 2 drs., mixed into a paste with a sufficient: quantity of the fresh juice of the fruit of Physalis a. [B, 200.]