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nerved, marcescent. Sepals 3, ovato-oblong, somewhat shorter 

 than the petals. Petals oval-elliptical. Stamens 6, adnate 

 to the base of perianth and equalling it in height ; filament 

 subulate, compressed, glabrous ; anther short, ovate, bifid 

 with obtuse lobes at the base, obtuse or subretuse at the 

 apex, dorsifixed, erect, with pollen, introrse, not foveolate, 

 longitudinally dehiscing, cells narrowly ovate. Ovary globose, 

 sessile, 3-sulcate, glabrous, about l^mm. long ; style erect, not 

 exceeding the stamens, terete ; stigma simple. Capsule globose, 

 sessile, accompanied by the marcescent perianth below, 3— sulcate 

 and 3-lobed, 3mm. long, loculicidally dehiscing ; carpels thinly 

 coriaceous, septiferous. Seeds 2 in each loculament, ascending, 

 collateral, oblong, trigonous and acute on the inner edge, about 

 22mm. long, at the base provided with many white threads 

 which are longer than the seed-body; rhaphe narrow and white ; 

 testa adnate, smoothish, pale-rufous ; embryo narrow, long, 

 somewhat arcuate, placed within the carnoso-cartilaginous 

 albumen. 



Nom. Jap. Keibi-ran. 



Icon. linuma's Somoku-Dzusetsu, VI. n. 46. 



Hab. Prov. Hyuga : Ishikame-mura (Herb. Imp. Mus. 

 Tokyo, Dec. 3, 1888); Prov. Tosa {K. Naganuma !), Mt. Tebako 

 {R. Yatabel herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 8, 1888) 

 Mt. Yokogura [T. Makinol Sept. 4, 1889), Nanokawa {K 

 Watanabel 1889), Takagawa (T. Makinol Oct. 6, 1892), Sa 

 kawa [T. Makinol May 1893) ; Prov. Iyo ; Yosyida-mura {Z. 

 Umemural April. 24. 1897); Prov. Mlsashi ; Tokyo, cult 

 (Herb. Sc Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, July 7, 1880). 



TUBOCAPSICUM (Wettst.) Makino, gen. no\.—Solaneae, 

 Solanacege. 



CAPSICUM Sect. TUBOCAPSICUM Wettst. in Engler et 

 Prantl, Nat. Pfl.-Fam. IV. 3 b (1895) p. 21. 



CAPSICUM Franch. et Sav. Enum. Fl. Jap. II. (1879) 

 p. 452, non Linn. 



Calyx short, cupuliform, truncate, nearly entire, slightly 



