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Filaments glabrous at their base ; anthers nearly included in the mouth 
of the tube. 
Berry globose, yellow or red, -i-inch in diameter. 
Flowers : — February 1851 (Thomson), Dee. 1889 (DefL). 
Fruits: — January 1880 (Balfour), Dec. 1888 (Schweinf.), Dec. 1889 
(DefL). 
Locality ; — Near the seashore (Hook., Thomson, Anders.) ; ravine 
south-west of the Tower of Silence (DefL) ; Wadi Maala (Schweinf.) ; 
Shum Shum Range above the town from 500 — -1,300 feet (Busse) ; 
wihout locality (Birdw., Hildebrandt, Balfour, Beevor). 
Distribution : — Southern Europe, N. Africa, Arabia, Socotra, W. 
India. 
2, Capsicum L. 
Annual or perennial herbs, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves entire or 
repand. Pedicels axillary or 2 — 3 together. 
Calyx campanulate, subentire or minutely 5-toothed, much shorter 
than the fruit. Corolla rotate ; lobes 5, valvate in bud. Stamens 5, 
attached near the base of the corolla; anthers not longer than the 
filaments, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2-, rarely 3-celled ; style 
linear ; stigma subcapitate. 
Berry very variable in form and size, many-seeded. Seeds discoid, 
smooth or subscabrous; embryo peripheric. 
Species about 50. 
Distribution: — Central and S. America, one species in Japan. 
Many species cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions of the globe. 
1. Capsicum annum L. Hort. Cliff. (1737) p. 59; Sp. PI. (1753) p. 
188 ; Fingerh. Monogr. Gen. Caps. (1832) p. 12, t. 2, fig. a; Dunal in 
DC. Prodr. XIII, I, 412 ; Hooker Niger FI. 472 ; Bentl. et Trim. Med. 
PI. t. 189; J. Braun in Mitth. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. II ( 1 889) 173; var . 
conoides Irish, in Rep. Missouri Bot. Gard. 1898, 65. 
Capsicum conoides Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 8; Dunal 1. c. 414; 
Engl. Pfl. Ost.-Afr. C. 351. 
Capsicum conicum var. orientale Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXIX, 
118. 
Valliacapo-molago Rheede Hort. Malab. IX, 65, t. 35. 
Names : — Guinea Pepper, Red Pepper, Chilli, Cayenne, Tabasco. 
Description .‘ — Herbaceous, rarely suffrutescent, 2— -5 feet high, 
branches many, erect, angular, glabrous. Leaves ovate-acuminate to 
oblong, 2 — 3 inches long, J — 2 inches wide, pubescent on the under sur- 
face of the midrib ; petiole about \ inch long. 
