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enlarged in fruit. Corolla lato-campanulate, 5-fid ; lobes 

 valvate. Stamens 5, adnate to the middle of corolla ; fila- 

 ment subulate ; anther shorter than the filament, ovate, longi- 

 tudinally dehiscing, apart each other ; loculaments not parallel. 

 Disk inconspicuous. Ovar}- 2-locular ; style filiform ; stigma 

 slightU^ dilatato-subcapitate ; ovules numerous. Berry sac- 

 culent!, small, globose, red; pericarp thin. Seeds compressed, 

 reticulalato-engraved. 



Perennial herb!; root thick; stem annual, stout divari- 

 cato-ramose. Leaves slightly repand or nearly entire. Pedi- 

 cels 3-several-fasciculate. Flowers nutant, yellow !. Fruit 

 nutant. 



Monotypic. This differs from Capsicum by not having 

 the campanulate (often 5-toothed) calyx, rotate white corolla, 

 anthers with parallel cells, and exsuccous berry. 



Tubocapsicum anomalum (Franch. et Sav.) Makino, 

 nom. nov. 



Capsicum anomalum Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. II. 

 (1879) p. 452. 



Solatium bi£orum Savatier in linuma's Somoku-Dzusetsu, 

 ed. 2, III. n. 47, non Lour. 



Perennial!, glabrous, stout, attaining about 1^™- in height. 

 Root thick. Stem stout, erect, in the lower portion and 

 attaining about l^cm. across, dichotomously divaricato-ramose, 

 subangulato-terete, but angulate when dry, green ; branches 

 spreading, flexuous, with straight internodes. Leaves solitary 

 or binate, thinly membranaceous, subflaccid in recent, ovate, 

 elliptical-ovate, or lanceolato-ovate, usually unequal, slightly or 

 obscurely repand, or nearly entire, long-acuminate, cuneately 

 attenuated below and decurrent to the petiole at the base, 

 about 5— 20cm. long, 2— 9^cm. wide ; veins 5—7 on each side, 

 loose, erect-patent, arcuate upwards ; petiole about ^— 3^cm. 

 long. Flowers small, axillary, 2— 6— fasciculate, nutant; pedicels 

 about 1^— 2cm. long in flower but attaining about 3cm. in length 

 in fruit, gracile, arcuato-incurved, obconically incrassate at the 

 apex. Calyx cupuliform, truncate on margin, teeth very much 

 depressed and inconspicuous, green, herbaceous, 3mm. across and 



