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Am.—Sum.-fall.—A related plant, Jaborosa integrifolia Lam. with prostrate 
stems, long-petioled entire elliptie leaf-blades and greenish-white salverform 
eorollas 7—10 em. long, has been found on ballast at Mobile, Ala. It is native 
of S. Am. | 
7. CAPSICUM [Tourn.] L. Herbs or shrubs, unarmed. Leaf-blades flat, 
entire or repand. Flowers axillary or cymose. Calyx truncate or minutely 
lobed. Corolla usually white, nearly rotate: lobes nearly as long as the tube. 
Filaments adnate to the lower part of the corolla-tube, glabrous: anthers longer 
than the filaments. Ovary not depressed: stigma minute.—About 30 species, 
mostly in tropical America.—CAYENNE-PEPPERS 
p 
—10 mm, long: anthers over 2 mm. long: annual introduced plant. 
. C. annuum. 
Corolla 
~ 
Corolla 4—5 mm. long: P less than 2 mm. long: perennial 
native hammo ek plant 
Calyx markedly toothed p maturity: berry pce 2. l. 
Calyx truncate at maturity: Ton ellipsoid to con 3. C. frutescens.: 
C. bun Plants mostly 1 m. tall or less, with glabrous or nearly 
et ie rane e blades ovate, ov pe or ovate- lanceolate, mostly 7-14 em. 
long, acum E pedicels clava 
calyx 3-4 mm long, ‘truncate’ corolla E 
inkish, 7-10 long: lobes ovate, 
fields, and oases cm Fla. Nat. o 
and cult.—AlIl y 
2. C. baccatum L. Stem 1—3 m. tall: leaf 
blades ovate, s m to ovate-lanceo- 
late, 2-5 em. long: s mainly 2.5-3 mm. 
long: ees about 5 mm. long: berry 5-10 
* on (Brnp- PEPPER. )—Hammocks 
an ud ckets, pen. Fla. and the Keys. Also 
xe. in cult. s and waste-places, W to Tex.—(W. I.) 
3. C. frutescens L. Stem 0.5-2 m. s og Per ovate to Bird pae 
1-3 em. long: ealyx ms 1.5-2 mm. long: corolla about 4 ong: 
8-12 mm. long or longer, i -PEPPER. gas ocks, Scr Fla. and p 
Keys.—(W. I.) 
8. LYCIUM L. Shrubs or woody vines, commonly spiny. Leaf-blades 
thick, sometimes terete, entire. Flowers axillary, sometimes clustered. Calyx 
markedly lobed. Corolla white or colored, funnelform, salverform, or nearly 
campanulate: lobes m than the usually short tube, or shorter nthers 
shorter than the pubescent filaments. ig dilated.—About 75 species, 
widely distributed.—MATRIMONY-VINES.— The purple corollas of some species 
have the eurious habit of fading to a greenish-yellow or greenish-tan after the 
pollen is shed from the anthers. 
Leaf-blades flat: iE lobes shorter than the tube and throat. 1. L.halimifolium. 
Leaf- an clavate: rolla-lobes longer than the tube and 
2. L.carolinianum. 
