562 SOLANACEAE. 
(black salt),. Saindhava (rock salt), Javakshara (potash), gin- 
ger.and melted butter. . In the Concan the plant is made into 
a paste with rice water, and applied to restore flaccid breasts, 
in accordance with the doctrine of signatures. _ Both varieties of 
this plant are noticed by Rheede, and Ainslie (11. 15) in a note 
remarks that P. minima has been neticed by Dr, Heyne as 
medicinal among the Hindus, and is called by them Lakshmi- 
devatya, ‘‘sacred to Lakshmi.” Dr. Stewart states that the 
fruit is considered in the Punjab to be tonic, diuretic and 
purgative. Itis used by the Mahometans as a substitute for 
P. Alkekengi. 
Description.— An herbaceous annual, leaves 2 inches; 
petiole 1 inch ; pedicels 4? to $ inch; calyx at flower-time $ 
to 4 inch; lobes lanceolate, half the length of the calyx, often 
hirsute, sometimes glabrescent; corolla clear yellow or some- 
times spotted at the base; berry nearly globular ; ; fruit-calyx 
globose in the smaller variety, rswrese in the larger, 5 or 
10-ribbed ; seeds numerous, ;4 inch, discoid, reticulated, 
scarcely scabrous. 
P. peruviana, the Cape Gusbpenn or Brazil Cherry, which 
is cultivated in India, hardly differs from this plant except 
in its larger size-and more oblong berry. It affords an excel- 
lent fruit, and is now much cultivated in France and is largely 
used in India for making the well known “‘ Topare jam.” 
CAPSICUM FRUTESCENS, Linn. 
| Fig.—Lam. Til., t. 116, f. 1; Rheede, Hort. Mal. it., t. 56. 
Chillie (Eng.), Piment de Cayenne (Z’r.). 
Hab.—Aumerica. Cultivated throughout India. The fruit. 
CAPSICUM MINIMUM, oad. 
“Fig.— Wight Ic. t. 1617; Bentl. and Trim., t. 188. Bird'e: 
eye Chillie (Eng.), a ai Pile Maurice (Fr). 
Hab. —Uneertain, € ultiva 
