276 LXXXIX. SOLAXACE.E. 



about 1 in. long, produced iu profusion in December. Woodr. Gard. 

 in Ind. ed. 5, p. 402. 



Nicotinna Tahucum, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 180. The well-known 

 Tobacco Plant, grown more or less throughout India, and, in the Bombay 

 Presidency, largely throughout the Deccan and Gujarat. Its native 

 country is not known with absolute certainty, but it is generally sup- 

 posed to be a native ot" S. America. It does not exhibit much tendency 

 to spread as a weed {Clarice). Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 245 ; Grab. Cat. p. 140 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Snppl. p. Q2 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (189S) 

 p. 173 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 5, p. 353. 



BrowalUa demissa, Linn. Syst. ed. 10 (1759) p. 1118. A pretty 

 annual about 1| ft. high, a native of S. America, with ovate acute 

 leaves and numerous small blue flowers about | in. across w hen expanded. 

 Dalz. & Gibs. ISuppl. p. 03. BrowalUa data, Linn. I.e. ; Woodr. Gard. 

 in Ind. ed. 5, p. 404 A. 



Brunsfelsia americana, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 191. A free-flowering 

 shrub, a native of Tropical America, with elliptic-ovate leaves and 

 odorous flowers with a long corolla-tube. The flowers are at first 

 yellow, afterwards turning white. Woodr. Gard. iu Ind. ed. 5, p. 402; 

 Firminger, Man. Gard. ed. 3 (1874) p. 551, 



Petunia. Varieties of Petunia nyctariinijiora, Juss. in Ann. Mus. Par. 

 v. 2 (1803) p. 210, t. 47, fig. 2, and of Petunia violacea, Lindl. Bot. Keg. 

 t. 1626, natives of the Argentine, are grown in gardens, where they 

 make an imposing show with their variously striped and colored corollas. 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 63 ; Woodr. Gard. in lud. ed. 5, pp. -J 02-403. 



Capsicum. 



There seems little doubt that tho several varieties of this genus are 

 natives of Tropical America, although they have been cultivated in 

 India from a remote period. Numerous species (perhaps 50 or taore) 

 have been enumerated by various authors, but, at present, botanists have 

 generally agreed to refer all the varieties to 2 species, and to consider 

 the other so-called species to be varieties or subvarieties of these. The 

 two accepted species of the genus are Capsicum annuum, Linn., and 

 C. frutescens, Linn. 



Capsicum annuum, Linn. Hort. Cliff. (1737) p, 59. Herbaceous or 

 suffrutescent, annual or biennial, usually 2-3 ft, (sometimes 4-5 ft., 

 rarely only 1 ft.) high. Pedicels usually solitary. Corolla usually 

 white (in var. longum, purple). This species furnishes Ihe chief 

 commcn'ial varieties now in cultivation. Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 188; 

 Pingerh. Monogr. Gen. Caps. (1832) p. 12, t. 2, fig. a; Irish, Pevis. 

 Gen. Caps, in xMissouri Bot. Gard. Kep. 9 (18!)8) p. ()5 ; Watt, Diet, 

 Econ. Prod, v. 2, p. 134. 



Var. acuminata, Pingerh. Monogr. Gen. Caps. (1832) p. 13, t. 2, 

 fig. c. Plant 1^-2| ft. high. Poliage dense. Leaves solitary, 

 sometimes semi-fascicled, ovate, acuminate. Pedicels slender, 

 enlarging towards the apex. Calyx embracing the base of the 



