Capsicum.] CH. SOLANACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 239 
seeded. Seeds discoid, smooth or subscabrous; embryo peripheric.— DrsTRIB. 
Species 20, native in America, some cultivated in all warm countries. 
1. C. frutescens, Linn.; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 63; pedicels 
solitary, berry pendent elongate-oblong often curved red orange or yellow. 
Lamk. Ill. t. 116, fig. 1; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 574; Blume Bijd. 704; Wail. Cat. 
2042; Fingerh. Caps. 17, t. 4, fig. e; Dunal in DC. Prodr, xiii. pt. i. 413.— 
Rheede Hort. Mal. ii. t. 56. 
Throughout Inna, universally cultivated.—Drstem. Cultivated in all the 
warmer parts of the globe; native place uncertain.—Chillee of the English 
| denizens, 
Fruit often 3 by 1 in., tapering at the end. 
2. C. minimum, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 17, and Fl. Ind. i. 574, and ed. 
Carey & Wall. ii. 261; pedicels mostly 2-3 together, berry small suberect 
elongate oblong. Wall. Cat. 9041. C. fastigiatum, Blume Bijd. 705; Nees in 
Trans, Linn. Soc. xvii. 64; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 416 ; Wight. Ic. t. 
- 1617; Bentl. & Trim. Med, Pl. t. 188. C. baccatum, Wall, Cat. 9644. 
Throughout Inpta, extensively cultivated.—Distrm. Malaya cultivated ; native 
Place uncertain. 
Berries often 14 by j in., red.— Bird's-eye Chillee of the English denizen. 
3. C. grossum, Willd. Sp. Pl.i. 1051; pedicels solitary nodding in fruit, 
berry ovoid. Roxb. Fi. Ind. aera, Wall. o 2643 ; Fingerh. Caps. 21, t. 5, 
fig. c, d, and t. 6, fig. a; Nees in Trans, Linn, Soc. xvii. 62; Dunal in DC. 
- XIU. pt. i. 422. 
In Ixpia cultivated.—Drernm. Native place uncertain. 
often 3 by 2 in., red. : : 
Van. cerasiformis ; berry $ in. diam., globose. C. cerasiformis, Lamk. Dict. v. 325 ; 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 575. ©. chamacerasus, Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 65; Dunal 
tn DC. Prodr. xiii, pt. i. 429.—In India, rarely cultivated. 
3. WITHANTA, Pau. 
Unarmed shrubs. Leaves entire. Flowers axillary, sessile or shortly 
ielled, fascicled or solitary, sometimes diccious. Calyx campanulate, 
toothed, enlarged in fruit, subglobose. Corolla campanulate ; lobes 3-6, 
| short, valvate in bud. Stamens attached near the base of the corolla; anthers 
| er dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled ; style linear, stigma shortly 
| Me in Le 
. erry globose. Seeds very many, discoid ; em peripheric.— Species 
55 the Mediterranean region to the Cape of Good HopeAnd Bengal. 
I. W. somnifera, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 453; thinly woolly, 
saves ovate, calyx-teeth short very acute, flowers hermaphrodite, fruit-calyx 
commit. P P*Ty larger than the berry. Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 287. Ph ae 
Gran (sink: Gaertn. Fruct. ii, 230, t. 131; Jacq. Bel. t. 22; Sibth. Fl 
t 865° 233: Cav. Ic, t. 103; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xin. 66 ; M A. 
Rosh, pou S. Gibe. Bomb, Fl. 175. P. flexuosa, Linn.; Jacq. Ed. t 23; 
Fc Fl. Ind. i. 561; Wall. Cat. 2635. P. arborescens and tomentosa, /4und. 
' AP. (ed. Schultes) 190, 191.—Rheede Hort. Mal. iv. t. 55. S ibid 
"ghout drier, subtropical Ixpia; frequent in the west and Hindostan, 
Good Hope. T Bengal — Disraim. Mediterranean. region, with the Canaries ; s abad 
1-5 ft; branches round. Leaves 2-4 in. subacute; petiole j-] in. 
p “dicela C} in, Calyx in flower } in., in fruit $ in. Corolla 3-3 in., greenish or 
