Capsicum. } SOLANACEZ!. 747 
In all the provinces. 
A very prickly, diffuse herb, 1-4 feet across. Hind. 
| ae ringni; Beng. Kantakari; Uriya Bheji-begun, 
ranti; Santal. Rangaini janum. 
1392. balan TRILOBATUM Linn.; F. I. i. 571; F. B. I. i. 286; 
HK. D. 8. 2815. 
ae ; Orissa. 
scandent or rare: undershrub, 6-12 feet long. 
aa Nabhi-ankuri 
636. Capsicum Linn. 
Annual or perennial glabrous herbs or undershrubs; leaves 
alternate, entire or repand. Flowers peer axillary, solitary 
or 2-3 together. Sepals connate in a subentire or minutely 
5-toothed calyx, much shorter than the yee Petals 5, connate 
in a rotate corolla ; tube short; lobes valvate in bud. Stamens 5, 
adnate nearly to base of corolla-tube; filaments short; anthers 
tudinal. Car; 
not Seam filaments; dehiscence longitu arpels con- 
in a 2-celled, rarely a 3-celled ovary; style linear; a 
sitet: Fruit a globose or elongated or irregularly shaped, 
many-seeded berry. Seeds discoid, smooth or sihadvons, 
embryo peripheric. 
fear “needs ee erect or reflexed ; fruits erect or spreading 
pendent, at lea pip as, usually longer than, the pedicels; plants 
ines or biennial : ia 
tFlowers white: bees at first green, afterwards becoming red, 
orange, or yellow :—{p. 748] 
{Fruit not globular :—{p. 748] 
Berries tapering, much longer than broad :— 
Fruit stout; flesh thick, usually mildly pungent; calyx not en- 
closing base of berr rry annwum. 
Fruit slender ; flesh thin, keenly pungent; calyx enclosing base 
of berry annuum var. acuminata. 
Berries not much, if at all longer than broad, usually obtuse ; 
calyx not enclosing base of berry :— 
Berries circular in section, subconical or pops or oblong; flesh 
thin, pungent nuum var. abbreviata. 
Berries swollen, angular in section, orate or quadrate or 
oblate ; flesh very thick, hardly at all pungent 
annuum yar. grossa, 
