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SOLANACE^. 
[ Solatium . 
branched low shrub, with zigzag tomentose branches armed with 
copious straw-coloured straight or slightly hooked pungent spines 
in. long thick ovate, repand tomeutose leaves 3-4 in. long with 
strong prickles on the ribs, large purple flowers in congested pendu- 
lous cymes and a pendulous globose glabrous berry as large as a 
plum. 
* Lycopersicum Galeni , Miller, Diet. No. 2, (L. cerasiforme, Dunal in 
DC. Prod. xiii. 26 ; Solanum pseudo-lycopersicum,e7ac^. Find. 1 . 11), the 
Cherry Tomato, is commonly cultivated and frequent on rubbish heaps. 
It is a much-branched annual, with puberulent bristly stems, pinnate 
leaves with stalked ovate acute sinuate or even pinnate leaflets, flowers 
in axillary cymes, sepals \ in. long linear joined at the base, a rotate 
yellow corolla not longer than the calyx, 5 long anthers cohering in a 
cone and dehiscing down the inner side, and a bright red or yellow 
rather villose berry as large as a plum. 
* Several forms of Capsicum are cultivated and have become sub- 
spontaneous. Our Mauritian specimens from Dr. Ayres and M. Bou- 
ton all belong to C. fastigiatum, Bluine; Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. 416, 
marked by its shrubby zigzag branches, ovate acute membranous leaves 
cuueate at the base, long often geminate ascending or deflexed pedi- 
cels, entire campanulate calyx and clavate scarlet fruit f- in. long 
tapering to the point. The same form is established abundantly in 
Bodriguez. It seems a mere variety of C. frutescens , Linn., which 
yields the common Cayenne pepper. Piment arbrisseau. 
* Dr. Balfour’s Bodriguez collection also contains two forms of C. 
cordiforme , Miller, marked by its shrubby very flexuose stems and large 
pendulous scarlet fruit. One of them has a globose berry an inch 
long and thick and the other a larger ovoid-oblong fruit a couple of 
inches long. Gros Piment. 
2. LYCIUMj Linn. 
Calyx campanulate, 4-5-toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped, 4-5-lobed. 
Stamens 4-5, inserted at the middle of the tube, included or exserted ; 
filaments filiform ; anthers small, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 
2-celled ; ovules numerous : style filiform ; stigma capitate. Bruit a 
small oblong berry. — Shrubs with alternate or fascicled entire leaves 
and small purplish solitary or umbellate axillary flowers. Distrib. 
Cosmopolitan. Species 30. 
1. L. tenue, Var. Sieberi, Dunal in. DC. Prod. xiii. 515. A low 
much-branched glabrous shrub, with pale grey branches and branchlets 
often copious and spiny. Leaves fascicled, fleshy, glabrous, subses- 
sile, oblanceolate, obtuse, entire, | in. long. Blowers solitary from 
