Physalis| LXXXVIII, SOLANACEE, 751 
branches greatly elongated, decumbent; corolla sulphur-yellow, 
atropurpureous towards the base both inside and out. In cultivated 
and sunny sandy places, not everywhere ; at Varzea do Isidro near 
Sange ; fl. and fr. July 1855. No. 6056. 
MossaMEDES.—Berries eaten. In damp fields, especially in planta- 
tions of cotton and sugar, often too abundant ; fl. and fr. July 1859. 
No. 6026. 
The leaves are generally eaten by the negroes. It occurred plenti- 
fully at the lake of Quilunda, near Prata, in the district of IcoLo E 
Bengo ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1854. 
4, CAPSICUM Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 892. 
1. C. annuum L. Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p. 188 (1753) ; Fingerh. Mon. 
Caps. p. 12, t. 2 (1832). 
Loanpa.—In the city; probably cultivated; fr. Nov. 1860. 
Apparently this species or possibly C. longum DC. Co... Carp. 803. 
2. C. frutescens L., /.c., p. 189 ; Fingerh., /.c., p. 17, t. 4, fig. c. 
AMBRIz.—Cultivated and wild; fr. Apparently this species or 
perhaps C. conoides Mill., which some authors regard as synonymous. 
No. 6066. 
3. C. baccatum L. Mant. Pl. i. p. 47 (1767); Fingerh., d.c., 
p- 18, t. 4, fig. a. 
C. comarim Velloz. Fl. Flumin. p. 60 (1825) ?; Welw. in Bol. 
Conselho Ultramar. Lisb. No. 7, p. 83, n. 68 (Aug. 1854). 
AmBrRIzZ.—Cultivated near Mubango and Quibanza ; fl. and fr. end 
of Nov. 1853. Negro name ‘“Comorim.” No. 6068, and Co... 
Carp. 802. 
GoLunGo ALro.—Ripe berries more or less ellipsoidal, scarlet, not 
eaten by the negroes. In the forests of nearly all the Sobatos, but 
sporadic, very remote from human habitations and even in the 
densest forests, apparently indigenous; in Mata de Quibanga ; fl. and 
fr. Dec. 1855. No. 6071. Not uncommon in the primitive forest of 
Mata de Quibanga ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1856. No. 6064. 
4. C. cerasiforme Miller, Gard. Dict., edit. 8, n. 5 (1768). 
C. Milleri Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. iv. p. 563 (1819) 
Fingerh., l.c., p. 20. 
PunGo ANDONGO.—Fruit spherical, strongly pungent. Cultivated 
in Sansamanda ; fr. 30 April 1857. No. 6070. 
5. C. cordiforme Miller, /.c., n. 2; Fingerh., /.c., p. 29, tt. 9, 10. 
Ambriz.—Cultivated ; in fr. No. 6065. At Mubango, wild; 1. 
and fr. No. 6067. 
CaLumMBo.—A shrub, 3 ft. high or more, strongly branched above ; 
branches bent in a zigzag manner ; calyx obtusely pentagonal, bent 
down in flower, almost truncate at the mouth, obscurely 5-toothed, the 
teeth obtuse ; corolla from yellow to greenish, with ovate-acuminate 
lobes; anthers cordate-ovate, dull green. At Quilombo between 
Camama and Calumbo, wild; fl. and fr. June 1858. Native name of 
the shrub “ Molingd” and of the fruit “‘ N-dungo-Jindungo.”’ See 
Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 233 (1884). No. 6047. 
GoLuNnGo ALTo.—In secondary thickets near Cacarambola ; fr. 
without foliage, beginning of Sept. 1856. Apparently this species. 
No. 6097. 
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