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Penang : Wallich ! Perak : Scortechini ! Malacca : Griffith. 
Pahang : Ridley ! — Distrib. Malay Archipelago. 
11. Solanum aculeatissimum, Jacq. Col. I. 100. An armed slender 
undershrub, 2 to 3 feet high, with glabrous stems covered with very 
many long, straight, slender prickles. Leaves only on the upper part of 
the stems, membranous, ovate, lobed, sparsely hairy; 3 to 5 in. long. 
Floivers on 1-7-flowered peduncles, that are usually only 1-fruited ; 
peduncles in fruit '75 in. long. Calyx even in fruit small, under -25 in. 
long, very prickly. Fruit globose, P25 in. across, smooth. Seeds 
•2 in. in diam., extremely compressed, almost winged. Jacq. Icon. 
I. t. 41 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Plor. Brit. Ind. IV. 237. S. aculeatissimum 
var. ? denudatum, Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 244. 
Singapore : G. Thomson. 
This is not in Herb. Calcutta. The above meagre description is taken from the 
accounts of Dunal in the Pradromus, and of Clarke in the Flora of British India. The 
specimen to which Clarke refers is one of the “ varieties ” of Dunal, not the true 
S. aculeatissimum of Jacquin, and Dunal himself was not satisfied that it is to 
Jacquin’s species of this name that the variety should be referred. As it has not again 
been reported, it is possible we may have here to deal with an unusual state of some 
casually introduced and perhaps well-known American species. 
2. Capsicum, Linn. 
Unarmed annual or perennial, glabrous or glabreseent herbs or 
shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire or repand. Floivers axillary, solitary 
or several together. Calyx campanulate, minutely 5-toothed, not 
enlarging in fruit. Corolla-tuke short, rotate, limb 5-lobed, valvate in 
bud. Stamens 5, adnate near base of corolla; anthers oblong, not 
longer than filaments, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled, rarely 
3-celled ; style columnar, stigma small. Fruit resembling a berry, but 
with the calyx at its base ; elongated or (rarely) globose. Seeds very 
numerous, disk-like ; embryo peripheric.— Distrib. Species 2 or more, 
natives of America. 
The number of species is doubtful, and depends on the point of view of the reviewer 
with regard to the many more or less distinct forms assumed by the plants under 
cultivation ; some writers recognise as many as 80, others claim only about 20 ; more 
recent authors insist only on 2 species — a perennial ( C . frutescens), and an annual 
(C. annuum), both very variable. Possibly, however, there is but a single very variable 
species, for in the tropics the forms of C. annuum are often not truly annual, and in 
temperate regions the perennial tropical forms rarely persist for more than a season. 
Pedicels solitary, variously erect or reflexed ; fruits erect or spread- 
ing or pendent, at least as long as, usually longer than, the 
pedicels ; plants annual or biennial : — 
Flowers white ; berries at first green, afterwards becoming red, 
orange or yellow : — 
Fruit not globular : — 
