Capsicum. Pentanbria monogynia, 259 



spreading corymbs (like some of the Callicnrpte) ; together with the 

 pedicels ami calyx covered vvi h a furfuraceous tomentum, composed 

 of stellate hair-. — Bractes linear, — Calyx inferior, tubular, obsoletely 

 five-toothed. — Corolla purplish, paler without; tube twice as Ions: as 

 the calyx ; limb sub-erect, five-parted; segments oblong — Stamina 

 five, exseit, attached to the corolla. Anthers long, linear, purple, 

 two-celltd, opening at the top by two pores. Style longer than the 

 stamina, clavate, somewhat decliiiale. Stigma truncate. Berry 

 superior, globular, five-celled? ten-seeded . ? — Jack's Ms3«, 



Obs. by N. IV. 



My late friend expressed considerable doubt respecting this plant 

 which he says has wonderfully the habit of a Callicaipa. The berries 

 were for the most part so injured by an insect that he had difficul- 

 ty in accurately determining the number of their seeds. 1 have not 

 seen any specimen of it. — N. VV. 



CAPSICUM. Schreb. Gen. N. 338. 



Corol wheel-shaped. Anthers converging. Berry superior, 

 juiceless, from two to three-celled. 



I. C. purpureum, R. 



Sluubby. Leaves ovate-lanceolate. Peduncles solitary in the 

 divisions of the branchlets ; after the blossom drops erect. Berry 

 erect, ovate, datk purple. 



In 1796, I tumid a single plant of this species in the Garden, but 

 from whence it came I could never learn ; most likely from the 

 Molucca Islands. The seeds have for these thirteen years continued 

 to produce, in all situations, plants exactly the same as the original 

 one ; this circumstance, with the general colour and erect ovate fruit, 

 leaves little room to doubt its being a distinct species. 



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