Capsicum.] 
LXXXVI. SOLANACEiE. 
1093 
1- C. fastigiatum (erect), Blume ; Wight, Ic. t. 1617. The common 
Chilli. A tall shrub. Fruit erect, red, about ljin. long, tapering to a blunt 
point. 
Hab.: Naturalised in many scrubs both north and south. 
5. :: NICANDRA, Gan-tn. 
(After Nicander, a Greek physician.) 
Calyx of 5 distinct broadly cordate segments or sepals, becoming much 
enlarged and inflated in fruit. Corolla campanulate, with 5 broad short lobes, 
folded (and perhaps also slightly imbricated) in the bud. Anthers short, opening 
longitudinally. Ovary 3 to 5-celled. Fruit a berry, enclosed in the enlarged 
calyx. Embryo curved in a fleshy albumen. — An erect annual, with the habit 
and foliage nearly of Physalis. 
The genus is limited to a single species. 
1. N. physaloides (Physalis-like), Gartn. Fruct. ii. 237, t. 141; Dun. 
in DC. Prod. xiii. part i. 134 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 465. An erect glabrous 
annual or biennial, attaining sometimes 5 or 6ft., but usually smaller. Leaves 
petiolate, ovate, irregularly sinuate or coarsely toothed or lobed, 3 to 4in. long or 
sometimes larger. Flowers pale-blue, solitary, on short pedicels in the upper 
axils, forming a terminal leafy raceme. Calyx-segments at the time of flowering 
a little more than Jin. long and herbaceous, when in fruit above lin. long, thin and 
much-veined, closely connivent, forming a vesicular calyx with very prominent 
angles. Corolla nearly lin. long. Berry globular, nearly dry. — Bot. Mag. t. 
2458 ; Atropa physloides, Linn.; and Physalis daturatfolia, Lam.; Clarke, in Hook. 
FI. Brit. Ind. iv. 210. 
Hab.: A native of S. America, which has established itself as a weed in several parts of the 
warmer regions of the Old World, aud may be met with about Brisbane and other southern 
towns. 
6. LYCIUM, Linn. 
(Name given by Dioscorides to a thorny bush.) 
Calyx with 5, rarely 4 teeth, often minutely dividing into 3 to 5 lobes. Corolla 
more or less funnel-shaped, the tube expanding into a campanulate 5 rarely 
4-lobed limb, the lobes imbricate in the bud. Stamens usually unequal, longer 
or shorter than the corolla ; anthers opening longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled. 
Berry ovoid or globular. Embryo curved or semcircular, in a fleshy embryo. 
—Shrubs, usually glabrous, the branchlets often spinescent. Leaves entire, 
usually small, often clustered on the old nodes. Flowers pedicellate, solitary or 
several together at the ends of the branchlets or in the clusters of leaves. 
The genus is widely spread over the temperate and subtropical regions of the world, especially 
numerous in S. America and S. Africa. The Australian species is endemic. 
Leaves clustered at the old nodes, spathulate-oblong, 3 to 4 lines long. 
Corol'a about 5 lines long. Filaments shorter than the corolla, hairy to 
about the middle 1. L. austr ale. 
Leaves oblanceolate or obovate, 4 to over 12 lines long. Corolla-tube very 
shoit. Stamens exserted 2.*L. chinense. 
Leaves linear-obloug, about lin. long. Corolla-tube much longer than the 
lobes. Stamens exserted, glabrous at their base 3.*L. europceum. 
1. !L. australe (Australian), b. v. M. in ’Frans. Phil. Soc. Viet. i. 20, and 
Fraym. i. 83 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 467. A scrubby spreading glabrous shrub of 
1 to 3ft., the smaller branchlets often degenerating into spines. Leaves clustered 
at the old nodes, obovate spathulate or oblong, obtuse, thick and fleshy, about Jin. 
