Capsicum.] en. SOLANACEJ;. (C. B. Clarke.) 239 



seeded. Seeds discoid, smooth or subscabrous ; embryo peiipheric. DISTKIB. 

 Species 20, native in America, some cultivated in all warm countries. 



1. C. frutescens, Linn.; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 63; pedicels 



Rheede Hort. Mai. ii. t. 56. 



Throughout INDIA, universally cultivated. DISTRIB. Cultivated in all the 

 warmer parts of the globe ; native place uncertain. Chillee of the English 

 denizens. 



Fruit often 3 by 1 in., tapering at the end. 



2. C. minimum, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 17, and Fl. 2nd. i. 574, and ed. 

 Carey Sf Wall. ii. 261 ; pedicels mostly 2-3 together, berry small suberect 

 elongate oblong. Watt. Cat. 2641. 0. fastigiatum, Blume Bijd. 705 ; Nees in 



Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 64; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 416 ; Wight. Ic. t. 

 1617 ; Bentl. $ Trim. Med. PL t. 188. 0. baccatum, Wall. Cat. 2644. 



Throughout INDIA, extensively cultivated. DISTRIB. Malaya cultivated ; native 

 place uncertain. 



Berries often l by % in., red. Bird's-eye Chillee of the English denizen. 



3. C. grossum, Willd. Sp. Pl.i. 1051 ; pedicels solitary nodding in fruit, 

 berry ovoid. Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 574 : Wall. Cat. 2643 ; Fingerh. Caps. 21, t. 5, 

 fig. c, d, and t. 6, fig. ; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 62 ; Dunal in DC. 

 Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 422. 



In INDIA cultivated. DISTRIB. Native place uncertain. 



Berry often 3 by 2 in., red. 



VAR. cerasiformis; berry f in. diam., globose. C. cerasiformis. Lumk. Diet. v. 325 ; 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 575. C. chamsecerasus, Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 65 ; Dunal 

 in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 429. In India, rarely cultivated. 



3. WXTHANXA, Pauq: 



Unarmed shrubs. Leaves entire. Flowers axillary, sessile or shortly 

 pedicelled, fascicled or solitary, sometimes dioecious. Calyx campanulate, 

 5-6- toothed, enlarged in fruit, subglobose. Corolla campanulate ; lobes 3-6, 

 short, valvate in bud. Stamens attached near the base of the corolla; anthers 

 oblong, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled ; style linear, stigma shortly 

 2-fid. Berry globose. Seeds very many, discoid; embryo peripheric. Species 

 4 ; the Mediterranean region to the Cape of Good Hope and Bengal. 



1. W. somnifera, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 453; thinly woolly, 

 leaves ovate, calyx-teeth short very acute, flowers hermaphrodite, fruit-cilyx 

 inflated papery larger than the berry. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 287. Physalis 

 somnifera, Link : Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 239, t. 131 ; Jacq. Ed. t. 22 ; Sibth. Fl. 

 Grcec. t. 233 ; Cav. Ic. t. 103 ; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 66 : Wight Ic. 

 t. 853 ; Dalz. # Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 175, P. flexuosa, Linn. ; Jacq. Eel. t. 23 j 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 561 ; Wall. Cat. 2635. P. arborescens and tomentosa, Thunb. 

 Fl. Cap. (ed. Schultes) 190, Wl.Rheede Hort. Mai. iv. t. 55. 



Throughout drier, subtropical INDIA ; frequent in the west and Hindostan, 

 rare in Lower Bengal. DISTRIB. Mediterranean region, with the Canaries ; Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



Erect, 1-5 ft.; branches round. Leaves 2-4 in., subacute ; petiole |-J in. 

 Pedicels C- in. Calyx in flower | in., in fruit f in. Corolla -\ in., greenish or 



