Capsicum. SOLANACE.K. 539 



2. S. triquetrum, (^;\v. Perennial and more or less woody nt base, glabrous : 

 the slender and trian<,Mdar bmnches disposed to climb or to bo flexuous : leaver 

 deltoid-cordate or hastate, sometimes 3-5-lobed, the margins entire; the middle 

 lobe varying to lanceolate or even linear: umbellate pedunculate clustei-s rather lew- 

 flowered ; berry red. — Cav. Ic. iii. 30, t. 259. 6'. Limlheimerianum, Scheele in 

 Linn?ea, xxi. 700. 



From 'IVxa,s westward along tlic southern frontier ; given on tlie authority of a sterile specimen 

 siud to 1)0 Califoniian, hut more likely irom Arizona. 



-•- 4- Cnro/ln [violet or hfne nntl xhowj/, often rjreen (Did yelhno in the throat), \S-anr/led 

 or very moderatehj h-lohed, very ptt : pedunrAen short, terminal or becoininff lateral, 

 (learin;; an open forkiuij or umbellate ryme ; a nodose or cupshaped enlan/ement 

 under the artieulation at the base of each slender 2>cdicrl : berries j>urj)le, the base 

 covered by the somewhat enlarged calyx. 



3. S. Xanti, Cray. Perennial, nearly herbaceous except the base, pubescent 

 with simple glandular hairs, or sometimes almost glabrous: brant^hcs slender: leaves 

 thinnish, ovato or ovato-oblong, ontiro or repand, or randy aurioulatodobed at the 

 usually obtuse or rounded or subcordato base : corolla from three fourths to a full 

 inch in diameter. — Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 90. 



Var. Wallacei, Gray, 1. c. Leaves and flowers much larger ; the former 3 or 4 

 inches long and the corolla fully an inch and a half in diameter : inflorescence and 

 branches villous with long and viscid many-jointed hairs. 



Common through tho southern part of the State, and north to Santa Barlmia ; also on the l)or- 

 ders of Nevada, and in Sierra Co. Has heen confounded with the following, and is almost a.s 

 polvmorphous ; is known hy the puhescence of simiilo and jointed hairs, commonly tipped with 

 a gland. Named for Xanlics da Vcacy, one of the first to collect it. Var. IVnllacci, Catalina 

 Island, a striking form. 



4. S. umbelliferum, Eschscholtz. Perennial from a shrubby base, minutely 

 hoary-pubescent or toinentose with sliort many-branched hairs, occasionally almost 

 glabrous : flowering branches mostly short and leafy : leaves obovate and oblong 

 and commonly obtuse, sometimes ovate and acute, entire (half an inch to an inch or 

 two in length); the upper acute or narrowed, tho lower and larger ones rounded at 

 base : flowers few or several in umbel-like clusters : corolla about three fourths of 

 an inch in diameter. — «?. Californirnyn Si ."?. f/enistoides, Duniil in ]JC. ; tho latter 

 a fitarv(Hl and twiggy form with sniiili livivos. 



Conunon from the foot-hills of tho Slerm Nevada to tho roast, and snuih to Ran Diego Co. 

 A very polymorphous species, producing through tho season it-s handsome violet-hluo (or rarely 

 white) llo-wers. 



* * Sometimes pricMy : anthers longer, tapering vpwards, openin.fj only at the tip. 



5. S. elaeagnifolium, Cav. Low perennial, or tho base somewhat woody, silvery- 

 whiteiied all over by a dense and rather scurfy pubescence composed of many-rayed 

 stellate hairs : prickles straight and small on the branches an<l midribs, but some- 

 times wanting : leaves lanceolate or oblong, siimate or entire : peduncles at first 

 terminal, few-flowered : calyx 5-angled and with slender lobes : corolla violet, 

 moderately 5-lobed, an inch or less in diameter : ovary tomentose : berry yellowish, 

 at length nearly black. 



A Mexican ami extra-tropical South American species, extending from Texas to Arizona, and 

 ma shrubby form (,S'. Hin<Manwn, Henth.) to Lower California: probably in the southeastern 

 part of tho State. ' ^ 



3. CAPSICUM, Toum. Cayknnk rrri-Kit. Cirii.i:. 



Cnlyx short, minutely toothed or truncate, little enlarging, girting tho base of 



tho acrid and somptinu's juic(Oesa berry. Ccu'olla 5 - O-clcft. Anthers shorter or 



not longer than tho filament, oblong, blunt ; the vv\U opening lengthwise. Other- 



