The anatomical observations were conducted on anther development of 9704A, a cytoplasmic male sterile line in Capsicum annum L. , and its maintainer line 9704B. The results showed that the taptum of the maintainer line belonged to the glandular type. The development of vascular tissue in the connective of the CMS lines was normal, the abortion type of this CMS line was sporophyte abortion, the karyotheca of the tapeturn ceils of the CMS line vanished at the sporogenous cell stage, then the nucleus lysed and dispersed into cytoplasm agglomerately and vanished ultimately. The disintegrated taptu...