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64 . SOLANACEJE. 
minate unequal at the base and cuneately attenuate into the 
petiole, smooth entire ; cal. in fr. cup- or saucer-shaped, sub- 
pentagonal with 5 or more erect remote sharp distinct little 
teeth or denticles at the angles ; fr. erect ovate-oblong or ovato- 
conoidal obtuse 2-celled, cells equal many-seeded ; seeds much 
flattened, angularly suborbic-ular, smooth, pale yellowish. — - 
Linn. Sp. i. 271 (excl. var. /3) ; Lam. 111. no. 2395, t. 116. f. 2 ; 
Poir. in Lam. Diet. v. 325 ; Pers. i. 230 ; Ait. H. Iv. i. 406 ; 
Webb Spicil. 162 ; J. A. Sc-hm. FI. Yerd. 236; Griseb. W. I. 
FI. 436. — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 1, 2, cc. Gardens, vineyards, See. 
about Funchal and other places, almost everywhere, subspon- 
taneously. Summer and Aut. chiefly, but at most seasons ; at 
least in fr. — A small shr. 3 or 4 ft. high. Older branches pale 
ashy-grey. FI. w. scentless drooping. Antli. lilac or pale v. 
at first ; pollen w. Fr. about 1 in. long, 5 or 6 lines broad, even, 
smooth, shining, deep blood-red, on stout stiff erect angular ped. 
which are a little thickened upwards. Cal. in fr. a little rugged 
smooth shining gr. fleshy. 
Several varr. of this or other sp. are also occasionally cult. 
Amongst the latter is a smooth var. or form of C. sinense Jacq., 
a more delicate smaller shr. than C. frutescens L., not above 2 ft. 
high, with regularly strongly flexuous subhorizontally spreading 
sharply angular branches and smaller pendulous ovoidal or 
shortly oblong-ovate orange-y. fr. 4-6 in. long x 3-4 broad 
obtuse or subacute tipped with the persistent dried-up style ; 
the cal. as in C. frutescens L. Also not unfrequently occur one 
or two of the still smaller-fruited u Pird-peppers ” (C. eonoides 
Mill, or C. baccatum L.), the first with conoidal pointed, the 
latter with globose fr. the size of a pea, red or orange, called 
Pimenta miuda or in the Cape- Verdes (wrongly) Malagueta , by 
the Portuguese, the latter name belonging rightly (Hook, and 
Benih. FI. Nigrit. 576) to Amomum Gratium-Parcidisi L. 
2. Solanum L. 
§1. Morelia Dun. — Herb, mostly ann. L. simple entire re- 
pandly angular or angularly toothed, smooth or pubescent, 
dull gr. not stellato-tomontose. FI. small w. Berries 
small, size of a pea, i.e. 2 or 3 lines in diam., globose, black, 
ochraceous, greenish y., or.-red or scarlet. Pubescence 
furrv or glandular-pilose subcompound not distinctly 
stellate. * 
