LYCOPEESICUM. 
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copersicum (3 Linn. Sp. Pl. (ed. 1) 185, (ed. 2) 265 ; Poir. in 
Lam. Diet. iv. 287. S. pseudo-lyeopersicum Jacq. II. Yind. i. 
4, t. 11; Willd. Sp. PI. i. 1034; Pers. i. 226.— In beds of ra- 
vines, waste ground, vineyards, gardens &c. or on rocks and 
walls, both cult, and growing spontaneously everywhere below 
2000 ft. about Funchal and other towns or villages in Mad. 
Not noted but doubtless similarly existing in PS. Completely 
naturalized on the central rocky crest of ND. It has been 
found also in the Great Salvage by S r C. C. de Noronha; and 
in the interior of S. Iago, one of the Cape Verdes, between the 
Pibeira dos Picos and the Boa Entrada of S ta Catarina, I found 
it mixed with Momordica charantia L., overspreading in vast 
tangled beds or masses whole miles of mountain tracts ’at an 
elevation of 3000-4000 ft. above the sea. Throughout the year, 
and thus especially useful in winter and spring when y is want- 
ing. — St. gr. succulent yet hard or firm and stiff, 2-4 ft, long, 
loosely straggling, diffuse or decumbent, rounded or sometimes 
angular. Foliage harsh very flaccid and fast withering. L. 
6-8 in. long ; lfts. about 2 in. long and 1 broad, full or dark gr., 
sometimes pinnatifid or even pinnatisect and whitish or glauces- 
cent beneath. Hairs of st. and petioles stiffish pellucid shining 
horizontally patent, a few bulboso- m; capitato-glandular. Bac. 
5-7-fid. ; ped. and rachis round firm stiff straight, each 1-2 in. 
long ; pedic. round slender 4-9 lines long or more, ebracteately 
articulate mostly much above the middle, the lower part stiffly 
divaricate and the short upper thickened and geniculately re- 
fracted in fr. Cal. divided nearly to the base into 5 linear- 
elongate obtuse hairy lobes 3 lines long, or about half the length 
of cor. -lobes, loosely patent or reflexed in fr. Cor. deeply stel- 
late lemon -y. nearly 1 in. in diam. from point to point, scentless. 
Anth. y. united at top into a short open- (obtusely 10-crenate-) 
mouthed tube level or nearly so with the gr. subcapitate or cla- 
vate stigma. Berry completely 2-celled, each cell partially sub- 
divided by an incomplete flat axile septum ; smooth shining 6-9 
lines in diam., juicy acidulous with a nauseous vapid taste, but 
excellent and much employed in cookery. Seeds numerous 
compressed suborbicular shining ochre-y. mucilaginous smooth 
and surrounded by a gelatinous (when dry membranous and sub- 
pellucid) smooth brighter y. distinct rim or border, reminding 
one of Spergularia fallax Lowe ; the body of the seed when 
dry naked and minutely shagreened or papilloso-puncticulate 
in the middle, finely and closely radiato-striolate with closely 
depressed hairs gradually longer towards the margin and so 
forming a sort of fine fringe at the inner edge of the smooth 
and even limb or border. — Doubtless the original stock of the 
sp. The fr. varies much in size and colour. 
(3. pyriforme ; Tomate Cabaca ; fr. evenly obovate or shortly 
