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cosum, Lag. S. injiatum, Hornem. 5. hranavfoUum, Jacq. Eel. t. 7. S. deciirrens, Balbis. 5. 

 Bulbisii, Dunal ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2828, 3S)54. S. Sabeanum, Buckley in Proc. Acad. Philad. 

 1862. — Waste grounds, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Texas : adventive or escaped from 

 cultivation. (Brazil and Buenos Ayres.) — Calyx not greatly accrescent and not enclosing 

 the berry in wild specimens, and in some later flowers of cultivated plants. 



§ 2. Androceka. Fruit enclosed by the close-fitting and horridly prickly 

 calyx and even adhering to it : stamens and especially the style much declined : 

 anthers tapering upwards, linear-lanceolate, dissimilar ; the lowest one much 

 longer and larger, and with an incurved beak : seeds thickish, coarsely undulate- 

 rugose : racemose pedicels erect in fruit : leaves 1-3-pinnatifid : annuals, some- 

 times woody below, armed with straight prickles. — Androcera, Nutt. Gen. i. 129. 

 Nijcterium, Vent, in part, but not the typical one, which has a naked fruit. 



S. heterodoxum, Dunal. Pubescent with glandular-tipped simple hairs, with a very 

 few 5-rayed bristly ones on the upper face of the irregularly or interruptedly bipinnatifid 

 leaves ; their lobes roundish or obtuse and repand : corolla violet, an inch and a half or 

 less in diameter, somewhat irregular, 5-clef t ; the lobes ovate-acuminate : four anthers yel- 

 low, and tlie large one tinged with violet. — Sol. 235, t. 25 (small-flowered form cult, at 

 Montpelier) ; HBK. Xov. Gen. & Spec. iii. 47 ; Jacq. Eel. ii. t. 101. S. (Nycterium) citrulli- 

 folium, Braun, Ind. Sem. Frib. 1849 ; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 152. — W. Texas and New 

 Mexico. (Mex.) Leaves Watermelon-like in form and division. 



S. rostratTim, Dunal. Somewhat hoary or yellowish with a copious wholly stellate 

 pubescence, a foot or two high : leaves nearly as in the foregoing or less divided, some of 

 them only once pinnatifid : corolla yellow, about an inch in diameter, hardly irregular, the 

 short lobes broadly ovate. — Sol. 234, t. 24, & in DC. 1. c. 329. S. heterandmm, Pursh, Fl. i. 

 156, t. 7. S. Bejariense, Moricand in DC. 1. c. Androcera lobata, Nutt. Gen. i. 129. — Plains 

 of Nebraska to Texas. (Mex.) «?. conjiifum. Lam., of Tropical Mexico, should be known 

 by its simple pubescence. 



3. CAPSICUM, Tourn. Cayenne Pepper. (Name conjectured to come 

 from xrt^rzo), to gulp down, alluding to the pungency of the fruit used as a con- 

 diment, or from capsa, a pod, the pericarp of the larger-fruited species being dry at 

 maturity and almost capsular.) — Herbs or shrubs, originally all American and 

 nearly all tropical, green and commonly glabrous ; with many-times forking stems, 

 ovate and entire or merely repand thin and usually acuminate leaves, and small 

 solitary or cymose flowers on slender (or when the fruit is recurved stouter) 

 pedicels : corolla mostly white : anthers generally bluish ; the red or yellowish 

 berries (or in some cultivated forms vesicular pod-like fruits) charged with a 

 very pungent aromatic acridity. — Fingerhuth, Mon. Caps. 1832. 



C. FRUTESCENS, L. Shrub 2 to 4 feet high, with flexuose branches : berry ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse, lialf an inch or more long, on an erect or inclined peduncle. — Key West, Florida. 

 (Nat. from Trop. Amer.) 



C. baccatum, L. (Bird Pepper.) Shrubby, a foot or two high, with slender divergent 

 branches : leaves slender-petioled : calyx more or less toothed in the flower, truncate in 

 fruit : berry elliptical-globular or globose : peduncles in fruit erect. — Fingerh. 1. c. 19, t. 4, 

 fig. 6. C. microphf/Hum, Dunal in DC. 1. c. 421 (sometimes small-leaved). — S. Texas to Ari- 

 zona, indigenous. S. Florida, doubtless introduced. (Trop. Amer. and other tropical regions.) 



4. SALPICHROA, Miers. (I^dXmvi, trumpet, and jfpcot,', complexion or 

 color, the typical species having trumpet-shaped and handsome corolla ; but in 

 some it is urceolate and rather short, in ours especially so.) — South American, 

 except the dubious 



S. 'W^rightii. Low herb, apparently perennial, pubescent with rather slender simple 

 liairs : leaves membranaceous, ovate, entire (an inch or more long), slender-petioled : pedi- 



