Capsicum. SOLANACE.'E. 539 



2. S. triquetrum, Cav. Perennial and more or less woody at Lase, glahrons : 

 the slender and triangular branches disposed to climb or to be (lexuous : leaves 

 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 few- 

 flowered; berry red. — Cav. Ic. iii. 30, t. 259. 8. LiTidkeimeriaimiii, '^clumla in 

 Linnasa, xxi. 7G6. 



From Texas westward along the southern frontier ; given on the autlioiity of a sterile specimen 

 said to be Californian, but more likely from Arizona. 



+- -i- Corolla {violet or blue and showy, often green and yellow in the throat), b-angled 

 or very moderately 5-lobed, very flat : j)edimcles short, terminal or becoming lateral, 

 bearing an open forhing or timhellate cyme ; a nodose or cupshaped enlargement 

 tinder the articulation at the base of each slender pedicel : berries 2JU7-ple, the base 

 covered by the somewhat enlarged calyx. 



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

 with siniph^, glandular hairs, or sometimes almost glabrous: branches slender: leaves 

 thinni.sh, ovate or ovate-oblong, entire or repand, or rarely auriculate-lobed at the 

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

 inch in dianu'ter. — Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 90. 



Var. Wallace!, 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 the southern part of the State, and north to Santa Bai'bara ; also on the l)or- 

 ders of Nevada, and in Sierra Co. Has been confounded with the following, and is almost as 

 polymorphous ; is known by the pubescence of simple and jointed liairs, connuoidy tipped with 

 a gland. Named for Xantus dc Vcscy, one of the first to collect it. Yar. JFallacci, Catalina 

 Island, a striking form. 



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

 hoary-pubesceiit or tomentose with short many-branched hairs, occasionally almost 

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

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

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

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

 an inch in diameter. — *S'. Californicum & *S'. genistoides, Dunal in DC. ; the latter 

 a starved and twiggy form with small leaves. 



Common from the foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada to the coast, and south to San Diego Co. 

 A very polymorphous species, producing through the season its handsome violet-blue (or rarely 

 white) flowers. 



* =k Someti7nes pricliy : anthers longer, tajiering upwards, opening only at the tip. 



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

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

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

 times wanting : leaves lanceolate or oblong, sinuate or entire : peduncles at flrst 

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

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

 at length nearly black. • 



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

 in a shrubby form (.S*. Hindsianuvi, Benth.) to Lower California : probably in the southeastern 

 part of the State. 



3. CAPSICUM, Tourn. Cayexxe TK-prER. Chile. 

 Calyx short, minutely toothed or truncate, little enlai-ging, girting the base of 

 the acrid and sometinn's juiccless Ijerry. Corolla 5 - G-cleft. Anthers shoi'ter or 

 not longer than the Hianient, obKtug, blunt ; tlu> cell.; oitcuiug lengthwise. Other- 



