418 A FLORA OF MANILA 
Fruit a small or large, very fleshy berry, containing numerous small seeds. 
(Greek “wolf” and “peach.’’) 
Species 3 or 4, natives of America, one introduced here, cultivated and 
naturalized. 
1. L. ESCULENTUM Mill. Tamate (Sp.); Camate (Tag.); Tomato. 
Ascending or spreading, 0.5 to 1.5 m high, branched, pubescent. Leaves 
alternate, 10 to 40 cm long, pinnate, the leaflets irregular, oblong-ovate, 
toothed or lobed, sometimes lyrately-lobed, or the leaves bipinnate, the 
pinnae up to 18 cm in length. Inflorescence racemose or cymose, 5 to 8 
cm long, few-flowered. Flowers yellow, 1 to 1.5 em long. Fruit globose 
or depressed-globose, red, fleshy, smooth, in the wild state about 1 ecm in 
diameter, in cultivated forms up to 10 cm in diameter. (Fl. Filip. pl. 43.) 
Commonly cultivated forms with large fruits, also wild, with small 
fruits, fl. all the year; throughout the Philippines spontaneous and culti- 
vated. A native of tropical America, now wild or cultivated in all warm 
countries. : 
7. CAPSICUM Linnaeus 
Erect, branched, annual or perennial, glabrous herbs, often suffrutescent 
or shrubby. Leaves alternate, petioled, simple, entire or repand. Flowers 
axillary, solitary or few in each axil. Calyx small, entire or minutely 5- 
toothed. Corolla rotate, 5-lobed. Stamens 5, attached near the base of 
the corolla, the anthers free. Ovary 2- or 3-celled. Fruit an oblong, lan- 
ceolate, or ovoid berry. Seeds many. (Latin “box” from the shape of 
the fruit of some species.) 
Species all American, some now cultivated or wild in all warm countries, 
2 or 3 in the Philippines. 
Shrubby or suffrutescent herbs; pedicels solitary or several in each axil, 
erect; fruit small, red............ PR SAS LT Heh CRN Te 9 1. C. frutescens 
Annual herbs; pedicels solitary, recurved; fruit large, green.... 2. C. annuum 
1. C. FRUTESCENS L. (C. minimum Roxb.). Chile (Sp.) ; Pasites, Sili (Tag.) ; 
Chile Pepper. 
An erect, branched, suffrutescent, shrub-like herb 0.8 to 1.5 m high. 
Leaves oblong-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, 3 to 10 cm long. 
Flowers solitary or several in each axil, pedicelled, pale-green or yellowish- 
green, 8 to 9 mm in diameter. Fruit in the common form red, oblong-lan- 
ceolate, 1.5 to 2.5 cm long, with a very sharp taste. (FI. Filip. pl. 47.) 
In waste places, occasional, also commonly cultivated, fl. all the year; 
throughout the Philippines, wild and cultivated. A native of tropical 
America, now found in all tropical countries. 
*2. C. ANNUM L. var. GROSSUM (L.) Sendt. Sileng-bilog (Tag.) Green 
Pepper. 
An erect, branched, glabrous, annual herb about 40 cm high, the branches 
angled. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, acuminate, base decurrent-acuminate, 
8 to 12 cm long. Flowers axillary, solitary, about 1.8 cm in diameter, the 
petals somewhat straw-colored, the pedicels recurved. Fruit smooth, ovoid 
to oblong-ovoid, obtuse green, 6 to 10 cmlong. (FI. Filip. pl. 142, C. tetra- 
gonum.) 
