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cosum, Lag. 5. inflatum, Hornem. S. brancwfulium, Jacq. Eel. t. 7. 5. decurrens, Balbis. 5. 

 Balbisii, Dunal ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2828, 3954. 5. Sabeanum, Buckley in Proc. Acad. Philad. 

 1862. — Waste grounds, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Texas : adventive or escaped from 

 cultivation. (Brazil and Buenos Ayre6.) — Calyx not greatly accrescent and not enclosing 

 the berry in wild specimens, and in some later flowers of cultivated plants. 



§ 2. Androcera. Fruit enclosed by the close-fitting and horridly prickly 

 calyx and even adhering to it : stamens and especially the style much declined : 

 anthers tapering upwards, linear-lanceolate, dissimilar ; the lowest one much 

 longer and larger, and with an incurved beak : seeds thickish, coarsely undulate- 

 rugose : racemose pedicels erect in fruit : leaves 1-3-pinnatifid : annuals, some- 

 times woody below, armed with straight prickles. — Androcera, Nutt. Gen. i. 129. 

 Nycterium, Vent, in part, but not the typical one, which has a naked fruit. 



S. heterodoxum, Dunal. Pubescent with glandular-tipped simple hairs, with a very 

 few 5-rayed bristly ones on the upper face of the irregularly or interruptedly bipinnatifid 

 leaves ; their lobes roundish or obtuse and repand : corolla violet, an inch and a half or 

 less in diameter, somewhat irregular, 5-clef t ; the lobes ovate-acuminate : four anthers yel- 

 low, and the large one tinged with violet. — Sol. 235, t. 25 (small-flowered form cult, at 

 Montpelier) ; HBK. Nov. Gen. & Spec. iii. 47 ; Jacq. Eel. ii. t. 101. 5. (Nycterium) citrulli- 

 folium, Braun, Ind. Sem. Frib. 1849 ; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 152. — W. Texas and New 

 Mexico. (Mex.) Leaves Watermelon-like in form and division. 



S. rostratum, Dunal. Somewhat hoary or yellowish with a copious wholly stellate 

 pubescence, a foot or two high : leaves nearly as in the foregoing or less divided, some of 

 them only once pinnatifid : corolla yellow, about an inch in diameter, hardly irregular, the 

 short lobes broadly ovate. — Sol. 234, t. 24, & in DC. 1. c. 329. S. heterandrum, Pursh, FI. i. 

 156, t. 7. S. Bejariense, Moricand in DC. 1. c. Androcera lobata, Nutt. Gen. i. 129. — Plains 

 of Nebraska fo Texas. (Mex.) S. cornutum, Lam., of Tropical Mexico, should be known 

 by its simple pubescence. 



3. CAPSICUM, Tourn. Cayenne Pepper. (Name conjectured to come 

 from xanrco, to gulp down, alluding to the pungency of the fruit used as a con- 

 diment, or from capsa, a pod, the pericarp of the larger-fruited species being dry at 

 maturity and almost capsular.) — Herbs or shrubs, originally all American and 

 nearly all tropical, green and commonly glabrous ; with many-times forking stems, 

 ovate and entire or merely repand thin and usually acuminate leaves, and small 

 solitary or cymose flowers on slender (or when the fruit is recurved stouter) 

 pedicels : corolla mostly white : anthers generally bluish ; the red or yellowish 

 berries (or in some cultivated forms vesicular pod-like fruits) charged with a 

 very pungent aromatic acridity. — Fingerhuth, Mon. Caps. 1832. 



C. frutescens, L. Shrub 2 to 4 feet high, with flexuose branches : berry ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse, half an inch or more long, on an erect or inclined peduncle. — Key West, Florida. 

 (Nat. from Trop. Amer.) 



C. baccatum, L. (Bird Pepper.) Shrubby, a foot or two high, with slender divergent 

 branches : leaves slender-petioled : calyx more or less toothed in the flower, truncate in 

 fruit : berry elliptical-globular or globose : peduncles in fruit erect. — Fingerh. 1. c. 19, t. 4, 

 fig.. 6. C. microphyllum, Dunal in DC. 1. c. 421 (sometimes small-leaved). — S. Texas to Ari- 

 zona, indigenous. S. Florida, doubtless introduced. (Trop. Amer. and other tropical regions.) 



4. SALPICHR6A, Miers. (Zahtvfe, trumpet, and j«?w<,', complexion or 

 color, the t)'pical species having trumpet-shaped and handsome corolla; but in 

 some it is urceolate and rather short, in ours especially so.) — South American, 

 except the dubious 



S. Wrightii. Low herb, apparently perennial, pubescent with rather slender simple 

 hairs : leaves membranaceous, ovate, entire (an inch or more long), slender-petioled : pedi- 



