418 A FLORA OF MANILA 



Fruit a small or large, very fleshy berry, containing numerous small seeds. 



(Greek "wolf" and "peach.") ,^. ^ ■, . 



Species 3 or 4, natives of America, one introduced here, cultivated and 



naturalized. 



1 L ESCULENTUM Mill. Tamate (Sp.) ; Camate (Tag.); Tomato. 



Ascending or spreading, 0.5 to 1.5 m high, branched, pubescent. Leaves 

 alternate, 10 to 40 cm long, pinnate, the leaflets irregular, oblong-ovate, 

 toothed or lobed, sometimes lyrately-lobed, or the leaves bipinnate^ the 

 pinnae up to 18 cm in length. Inflorescence racemose or cymose, 5 to 8 

 cm long, few-flowered. Flowers yellow, 1 to 1.5 cm long. Fruit globose 

 or depressed-globose, red, fleshy, smooth, in the wild state about 1 cm m 

 diameter, 'in cultivated forms up to 10 cm in diameter. (Fl. Filip. pi. iS.) 



Commonly cultivated forms with large fruits, also wUd, with small 

 fruits, fl. all the year; throughout the Philippines spontaneous and culti- 

 vated. A native of tropical America, now wild or cultivated in all warm 



countries. 



7. CAPSICUM Linnaeus 



Erect, branched, annual or perennial, glabrous herbs, often suflfrutescent 

 or shrubby. Leaves alternate, petioled, simple, entire or repand. Flowers 

 axillary, solitary or few in each axil. Calyx small, entire or minutely 5- 

 toothed. Corolla rotate, 5-lobed. Stamens 5, attached near the base of 

 the corolla, the anthers free. Ovary 2- or 3-celled. . Fruit an oblong, lan- 

 ceolate, or ovoid berry. Seeds many. (Latin "box" from the shape of 

 the- fruit of some species.) 



Species all American, some now cultivated or wild in all warm countries, 

 2 or 3 in the Philippines. 



Shrubby or suffrutescent herbs; pedicels solitary or several in each axil, 



erect; fruit small, red I. 1. C. frutetscent 



Annual herbs; pedicels solitary, recurved; fruit large, green 2. C annuum 



1. C. FRUTESCENS L. (C. minimum Roxb.). Chile (Sp.) ; Pasites, Sili (Tag.) ; 

 Chile Pepper. 



An erect, branched, suffrutescent, shrub-like herb 0.8 to 1.5 m high 

 Leaves oblong-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, 3 to 10 cm long 

 Flowers solitary or several in each axil, pedicelled, pale-green or yellowish 

 green, 8 to 9 mm in diameter. Fruit in the common form red, oblong-Ian 

 ceolate, 1.5 to 2.5 cm long, with a very sharp taste. (Fl. Filip. pi. A7.) 



In waste places, occasional, also commonly cultivated, fl. all the year 

 throughout' the Philippines, wild and cultivated. A native of tropica 

 America, now found in all tropical countries. 



*2. C. ANNUM L. var. GROSSUM (L.) Sendt. Sileng-bilog (Tag.) Greei 

 Pepper. 

 An erect, branched, glabrous, annual herb about 40 cm high, the branche 

 angled. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, acuminate, base decurrent-acuminat* 

 8 to 12 cm long. Flowers axillary, solitary, about 1.8 cm in diameter, th 

 petals somewhat straw-colored, the pedicels recurved. Fruit smooth, ovoi 

 to oblong-ovoid, obtuse green, 6 to 10 cm long. (Fl. Filip. pi. H2, C. tetrc 

 gonum,.) 



