Capsicum, — Lycium, 847 
inserted near the corolla-base; filaments filiform; anthers shorter 
than or about as long as the filaments, dehiscing longitudinally. 
Disk small. Ovary 2- (rarely 3-) celled; style filiform; stigma 
more or less clavate; ovules many. Berry from small and globose 
to large and conical or almost linear.. Seeds compressed, rugose or 
nearly smooth; embryo much curved, near the circumference; coty- 
ledons semiterete. — Annual or perennial much-branched herbs, 
rarely shrubby at the base. Leaves entire or repand. Pedicels 
solitary or 2—3-nate. Fruit erect or nodding. 
Species about 50, chiefly natives of Tropical America; many cultivated 
throughout the tropics. 
1187. Capsicum frutescens L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 189. 
— Fingerhuth, Monogr. Capsic. 17, t.4, fig.c. — Dunal in DC. 
Prodr. XU. I. 413. — Sendtn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. X. 142. — C. B. 
Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. IV. 239. — C.conicum, Meyer in 
Kotschy, Iter. Nub. no. 292; Zarb in Cat. Spéc. Bot. Pfund, 31. — 
C. conoides, Roem. & Schult. Syst. IV. 562. — Fingerhuth, 1. ¢. 14. 
— C. fastigiatum, Blume, Bijdr. 705. —- Benth. & Trim. Medic. PI. 
t. 188. — Capo-molago, Rheede, Hort. Malab. II. 109, t. 56. — A 
shrub, 60—90 em high; branches flexuous; branchlets slightly angled, 
nearly glabrous. Leaves solitary or geminate, ovate, acuminate, 
attenuate into the petiole, glabrous or slightly ciliate on the margin, 
very variable in size. Flowers solitary or in pairs; peduncles 3 to 
6 cm long, thickened upwards, erect in fruit. Calyx cup-shaped, 
truncate, 10-nerved, sometimes minutely 5-toothed. Corolla white 
or pale yellow; lobes lanceolate, acute, patent. Ovary ovoid, gla- 
brous. Berry ovoid-oblong, obtuse, shining red. — Flow. December 
to February and March. 
N. v. Near Luksor cultivated and rarely subspontaneous. 
Local name: filfil ahmar. 
Cultivated throughout the Tropics; native country uncertain. 
489. (6.) Lycium Linn. 
Calyx campanulate or tubular, truncate or irregularly 3—5- 
toothed, not or but slightly enlarged in fruit. Corolla tubular, 
funnel-shaped, campanulate or urceolate; tube short or long, often 
swollen at the throat; lobes 4—5, flat, imbricate, patent. Stamens 
4-5, inserted in the corolla-tube, included or exserted; filaments 
filiform, often dilated and hairy at the base; anthers short, cells 
parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Disk annular or cupular. Ovary 
2-celled; ovules many. Berry globose, ovoid or conical, rather 
fleshy; pericarp thin or fleshy. Seeds many, rarely few or solitary, 
