SOLANACEAE. 385 



1. Capsicum baccatum L. Mant. 1: 47. 1767. 



Shrubby, more or less pubescent. Stems 1-3 m. tall, sometimes vine-like, 

 widely branching; leaves ovate, oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 2-5 cm. long, 

 acute or acuminate, entire, abruptly narrowed or truncate at the base; 

 petioles one half as long as the blades or shorter; pedicels narrowly club- 

 shaped, 1-2 cm. long; calyx 2.5-3 mm. long, its lobes as long as the tube or 

 somewhat shorter; berries globose to ellipsoid, 5-10 mm. long, red, obtuse. 



Scrub-lands, Little Harbor Cay, New Providence and Eleuthera to Mariguana, 

 Dellis' Cay (Caicos), Inagua and the Anguilla Isles: southern United States; West 

 Indies ; continental tropical America ; Old World tropics. C. frutcscens of Hitch- 

 cock, from Inagua, and of Dolley, is this species. BIRD PEPPER. 



4. LYCIUM L. Sp. PL 191. 1753. 



Shrubs, or woody vines, often spiny, with small alternate entire leaves, 

 commonly with smaller ones fascicled in their axils, and white greenish or 

 purple, solitary or clustered flowers. Calyx campanulate, 3-5-lobed or -toothed, 

 not enlarged in fruit, presistent. Corolla-tube short or slender, the limb 5- 

 lobed (rarely 4-lobed), the lobes obtuse. Stamens 5 (rarely 4); filaments fili- 

 form, sometimes dilated at the base; anther-sacs longitudinally dehiscent. 

 Ovary 2-eelled; style filiform; stigma capitate or 2-lobed. Berry globose, 

 ovoid, or oblong. [Named from the country Lycia.] About 75 species, 

 widely distributed. Type species: Lycium afrum L. 



1. Lycium spathulifolium Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 451. 1905. 



A glabrous shrub, 1.3 m. high or less, with long slender drooping 

 branches, some of the twigs tipped by spines 2-4 mm. long, the bark gray. f 

 Leaves 2-4 together at the nodal cushions, or solitary, spatulate, fleshy, entire, 

 6-15 mm. long, 1.5-3 mm. wide, obtuse, long-attenuate from above the middle 

 to the base; flowers few, solitary; peduncle filiform, 5 mm. long, gradually 

 thickened above; calyx campanulate, 2-2.5 mm. long, somewhat scurfy, its 

 teeth broadly ovate, obtuse, whitish-lanate; corolla funnelform, white, its tube 

 4-5 mm. long, its 4 oblong obtusish lobes two thirds as long as the tube. 



Coppices at upper savannah, Inagua ; rocky plains, East Caicos and Ambergris 

 Cay. Endemic. IXAGUA LYCIUM. 



5. OESTRUM L. Sp. PI. 191. 1753. 



Shrubs or trees, with alternate entire petioled leaves, the mostly yellow 

 or white flowers in cymes or panicled. Calyx 5-lobed or 5-toothed. Corolla 

 salverform or funnelform, the tube long, slender, the 5 lobes spreading. 

 Stamens borne on the corolla-tube, included; filaments filiform, often pilose 

 below, sometimes with a tooth-like appendage; anthers small, their sacs 

 parallel. Ovary 2-celled, usually short-stipitate ; ovules few; style filiform; 

 stigma dilated, entire or 2-lobed. Fruit a small berry. Seeds oblong, smooth. 

 [Greek, hammer, referring to the filaments.] Perhaps 150 species, natives of 

 tropical America. Type species: Oestrum nocturnum L. 



1. Oestrum "bahamense Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4:. 123. 1905. 



A shrub 3 m. high or less, glabrous throughout, the bark light gray. 

 Leaves ovate to ovate-elliptic, pale green on both sides, but slightly darker 

 green above than beneath, 5-10 cm. long, 5 cm. wide or less, firm in texture, 

 acute at both ends, or the apex obtusish, faintly 7-9-veined on each side of the 



