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Hab. Japan, widely distributed. 



It grows on plains, hills or sometimes mountains. 



Capsicum annuum Linn. var. longum (Linn.) Sendt. 

 forma bicolor (Jacq.) Makino. 



Capsicum bicolor Jacq. 'Fragm. Bot. p. 66, tab. 99, fig. 1'; 

 Bot. Mag. tab. 1835 (1816) ; Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veg. IV. 

 p. 564 ; Fingerh. Monogr. Gen. Capsic. p. 15, tab. 3, fig. a ; Dunal 

 in DC. Prodr. XIII. 1, p. 413 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Batav. II. p. 660. 



Capsicum nigrum Willd. Enum. PI. Hort. Bot. Berol. (1809) 

 p. 242 ; Poir. Encycl. Meth. Suppl. IV. (1816) p. 414. 



Capsicum annuum var. longum forma nigrum Makino in 

 linuma's Somoku-Dzusetsu, ed. 3, I. 3, p. 59. 



Capsicum yiolaceum DC. 'Cat. Hort. Monsp. (1813) p. 87'; 

 Fingerh. 1. c. p. 23; Dunal, 1. c. p. 423. 



Capsicum purpureum Vahl ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. p. 573, 



Capsicum bicolor var. purpureum Fingerh. 1. c. p. 16. 



Nom. Jap. Murasaki-togarsashi. 



Icon. linuma's Somoku-Dzusetsu, III. n. 39. 



Hab. Japan, cultivated. 



Physalis Alkekengi Linn. var. Francheti (Masters) 

 Makino. 



Physalis Francheti Masters in Gard. Chron. 3rd Ser. XVI. 

 2 (1894) p. 434, fig. 57. 



Perennial ! having the creeping rhizome. 

 Nom. Jap. Tamba-hodzuki. 

 Hab. Japan, cultivated. 

 A garden \ax\&tj. 



Physalis chamsesarachoides Makino, sp. nov. 



Annual. Stem erect below, often stout, sometimes attain- 

 ing about l^cm. in diameter, dichotomosely divaricato-ramose, 

 striato-angulate, green and often tinged with purplish colour, 

 puberulent ; branches spreading, flexuous, often elongate, 



