Capsicum. | XCI, SOLANACEE (WRIGHT) 251 
much curved, near the circumference ; cotyledons semiterete—Annual 
or perennial much-branched herbs, rarely shrubby at the base. Leaves 
entire or repand. Pedicels solitary or 2-3-nate. Fruit erect or 
nodding. 
Species about 50, chiefly natives of Tropical America ; many cultivated through- 
out the tropies. 
Calyx truncate. 
Branchlets nearly glabrous. : : : - 1. C. frutescens. 
Branchlets hirsute . . : : : : . 2. C. abyssinicum. 
Calyx dentate. 
Berry oblong-linear : : 4 : . 3. C. annuum. 
Berry more or less ovoid. 
Peduncles geminate, erect . : : : ee AC: belt kth 
Peduncles solitary, nodding . : : ; . 5. C. cordiforme. 
1. C. frutescens, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 189. A shrub, 2-3 ft. high; 
branches flexuous ; branchlets slightly angled, nearly glabrous. retin 
solitary or geminate, ovate, acuminate, attenuate into _the petiole, 
glabrous or slightly ciliate on the margin, very variable in size. pe 
solitary or in pairs ; peduncles 3-} in. long, thickened upwards, sri 
in fruit, Calyx cup-shaped, truncate, 10-nerved, sometimes minu : y 
5-toothed. Corolla white or pale yellow 3 lobes lanceolate, acute, 
patent. Ovary ovoid, glabrous. Berry ovoid-oblong, obtuse, ee 
red.— Fingerhuth, Monogr. Capsic. 17, t. 4, fig. ¢; Dunal in DC. Pro = 
Xili, 1.413; Sendtn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. x. 142; C. B. Clarke in Hook. 
f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 39; Cummins in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 77; ae in 
Rep. Missouri Bot. Gard. 1898, 97 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. bees : 
sot. O conicum, Meyer in Kotschy, Iter. Nub. n. 292 ; Zarb Bay ne 
Spéc. Bot. Pfund, 31. C. conoides, Roem. & Schult. Syst. a poe 
Fingerhuth,l.c.14. C. fastigiatum, Blume, Bijdr. 705 ; Benth. figs . 
Medic. Pl. t. 188.—Capo-molago, Rheede, Hort. Mulab. ii. 109, t. 56. — 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Roger! Sierra Leone, Vogel, ne Ashanti : 
Assin yun Kumassi, Cummins, 152! Togo: near Lome, Warnecke, si ! 
Wile Land. Kordofan, Kotschy, 292! Pfund, 233! 246! 288! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Ambriz, Welwitsch, 6066 ! 
Cultivated throughout the tropics; native country uncertain. 
Guinea, Bird or African pepper. 
2. C. abyssinicum, 4. Rich. Tent, Fl. Abyss. ii. 96. eens 
shrub ; branches geniculate, hirsute. Leaves ovate, eee ae 
and slightly unequal (rarely subacute) at the base, en 2 famED ah 
especially on the under side of the nerves, agerarie - re 
flowered, hirsute. Calyx. truncate, obsoletely mech ned. sicily 
explanate ; lobes 5, oval-oblong. Fruit 2 in. long, ob 7 peed 
curved at the apex, smooth, shining.—Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. 
87, 
: = ; ; r Petit. 
Nile Land, Abyssinia: without precise locality, Quartin Dillon § Peti 
Be. annuum, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 188. osneoreaige anes 
suffrutescent, 2-5 ft. high ; branches many, erect, angular, gle 
