Capsicum. SOLANACEiE. 539 



2. S. triquetrum, Cav. Perennial and more or less woody at base, glabrous : 

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

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

 lobe varying to lanceolate or even linear: umbellate pedunculate clusters rather few- 

 flowered; berry red. — Cav. Ic. iii. 30, t. 2u'J. S. Lindheimeriauum, Scheele in 

 Linnaea, xxi. 766. 



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

 said to he Californian, hut more likely from Arizona. 



+- -f- Corolla (violet or blue and shmcy, often green and yellow in the throat), 5-angled 

 or very moderately 5-lobed, very flat : peduncles short, terminal or becoming lateral, 

 bearing an o/ien /'irking or umbellate cyme ; a nodose or cupshaped enlargement 

 under the articulation at the base of each slender pedicel : berries purple, the base 

 covered by tin somewliat enlarged calyx. 



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

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

 thinnish, 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 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 the southern part of the State, and north to Santa Barbara ; also on the bor- 

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



polyi ■phous ; is known by the pubescence of simple and jointed hairs, commonly tipped with 



a gland. Named for Xanlus dc Vcscij, one of the first to collect it. Var. Wallaa . Catalans 

 Island, a striking form. 



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

 hoary-pubescent 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 (half 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 *V S. genistoides, Dunal in DC. ; the latter 



a starve. 1 ami 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 Bpecies, producing through the season its handsome violet-blue (or rarely 

 white) Dowers. 



* * Sometimes prickly : anthers longer, tapering upwards, opening only at th fi/>. 



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

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

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

 times wanting: leaves lanceolate or oblong, sinuate 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 marly black. 



A Mexican and extra-tropical S.mtli American species, extending from Texas to Arizona, and 

 in a shrubby form (& Hinarianum, Benth.) to Lower California: probably in the southeastern 



pai i "i tie B 



3. CAPSICUM, T..ui n. < i -; iii i:. Chile. 



Calyx short, minutely toothed or truncate, little enlarging, girting the base of 



the acrid and someti s juiceless berry. Corolla 5 - 6-cleft. Anthers shorter or 



ma longer than the filament, oblong, blunt ; the cells opening lengthwise. Other- 



