Oapsieum.] Cii. solanace^. (C. B. Clarke.) 239 



seeded. Seeds discoid, smooth or subscabrous ; embryo peiipheric. — Dibteib. 

 Species 20, native in America, some cultivated in all warm countries. 



1. C. frutescens, Zinn.; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 63; pedicels 

 solitary, berry pendent elongate-oblong often curved red orange or yellow. 

 Lamk. 111. t. 116, fig. 1 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 674 ; Slume Bijd. 704 ; Wall. Cat. 

 2642 ; Fingerh. Caps, 17, t. 4, fig. e ; Bvnal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 413. — 

 Bheede Hort, Mai. ii. t. 56. 



Throughout Indu, universally cultivated. — Distrib. Cultivated in all the 

 ■warmer parts of the globe ; hative place uncertaio. — Chillee of the English 

 denizens. 



Fruit often 3 by 1 in., tapering at the end. 



2.> C> minimum, Roxh. Hort. Beng. 17, and Fl. Ind. i. 674, and ed. 

 Carey 8f Wall. ii. 261 ; pedicels mostly 2-3 together, berry small suberect 

 elongate oblong. Wall. Cat. 2641.' 0. fastigiatum, Blume Bijd. 705 ; Nees in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 64; Lhmal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 416; Wight. Ic. t. 

 1617 ; Bentl. ^ Trim. Med. PL t. 188. 0. baccatum,, Wcdl. Cat. 2644. 



Throughout India, extensively cultivated. — Disteib. Malaya cultivated ; native 

 place uncertain. 



Berries often 1^ by J in., red. — Bird's-eye Chillee of the English denizen. 



3. C. ^rossum, Willd. Sp. PL i. 1051 ; pedicels solitary nodding in fruit, 

 berry ovoid. Roxh. FL Ind. i. 674 ; Wall. Cat. 2643 ; Fingerh. Capsi 21, t. 5, 

 fig. e, d, and t. 6, fig. a ; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 62 ; Dunal in L)C. 

 Ptodr. xiii. pt. i. 422. 



In India cultivated. — Disteib. Native place uncertain. 



Berry often 3 by 2 in., red. 



Vae. oeroMformis ; berry f in. diam., globose. C. eerasiformis, Lamk. Diet. v. 325 ; 

 Boxh. Fl. Ind. i. 575. C. chamaecerasus, Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 65 ; Dimcd 

 in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 429. — In India, rarely cultivated. 



3. WXTKANXA, Pauq. 



Unarmed shrubs. Leaves entire. Flowers axillary, sessile or shortly 

 pedicelled, fascicled or solitary, sometimes dioecious. Cab/x campanulate, 

 6-6-toothed, enlarged in fruit, subglobose. Corolla campanulate ; lobes 3-6, 

 short, valvate in bud. Stamens attached near the base of the corolla ; anthers 

 oblong, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled ; style linear, stigma shortly 

 2-fid. Berry globose. Seeds very many, discoid ; embryo peripheric. — Species 

 4 ; the Mediterranean region to the Cape of Good Hope and Bengal. 



1. W. somnifera, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 463; thinly woolly, 

 leaves ovate, calyx-teeth short very acute, flowers hermaphrodite, fruit-calyx 

 inflated papery larger than the berry. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 287. Physalis 

 somnifera. Link : Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 239, t. 131 ; Jacq. Eel. t. 22 ; ^th. Fl. 

 Cfrcec. t. 233 ; Cav. Ic. t. 103 ; Nees in Tram. lAnn. Soc. xiii. 66 ; Wight Ic. 

 t. 863 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. FL 175. P. flexuosa, Linn. ; Jaeq. Ed. t. 23 ; 

 Roxh. Fl. Ind. i. 561 ; Wall. Cat. 2636. P. arborescens and tomentosa. Thumb. 

 FL Cap. (ed. SchuUes) 190, 191.— JE^ee* Sm-t. MaL iv. t. 55. 



Throughout drier, subtropical India; frequent in the west and Hindostan, 

 rare in Lower Bengal. — Disteib. Mediterranean region, with the Canaries ; Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



Erect, 1-5 ft. ; branches round. Leaves 2-4 in., subacute ; petiole j-i in. 

 'r 0-i in. Calyx in flower | in., in fruit f in. Corolla y-J in., greenish or 



