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climate in summer, The fruit varies much in shape and colour, 
either long-podded, red, or yellow, or short-podded, red and 
yellow, or heart-shaped, red and yellow. 2. C. cerasifórme, 
the cherry-pepper, is also an annual standing our climate in 
summer; is known by its small, cherry-shaped fruit, which is 
sometimes heart-shaped or angular, in colour red or yellow. 
3. C. gróssum, the bell-pepper, a stove biennial; the berries of 
this kind are large, red or yellow. It will endure the open air 
in summer, but will require a place in the stove in winter and 
spring months. "The well known preparation called Cayenne- 
pepper is the pods of the smaller kinds of capsicum dried in the 
sun, pounded, and mixed with salt; it is then kept stopped in 
bottles. When used in moderation it is not unwholesome, espe- 
cially to those of cold leucophlegmatic habits. In such tempera- 
ments, as well as in paralytic cases, it is used medicinally in 
small quantities, as one of the highest stimulants. A mixture of 
sliced cucumbers, shalots, or onions, cut very small, a little lime 
juice and Madeira wine, with a few pods of bird-pepper, well 
mashed and mixed with the liquor, seldom fails to provoke the 
most languid appetite in the West Indies. It is there called 
Man-dram. Gathered fresh from the plant, the pods of all the 
species are liberally used in all tropical countries to assist diges- 
tion and correct flatulencies. 
Var. a, longicárpum ; fruit long, pendant. Tourn. inst. 152. 
Var. È, oliveférme (Mill. dict. no. 6.) fruit ovate. Ait. hort, 
kew. ed. 2d. vol. 1. p. 405. 
_ Far. y, abbrevidtum (Fing. diss. t. 2. f. 1.) Miller has raised 
from the seed of one individual plant the following varieties of 
Tournefort. 1. Capsicum fructu surrecto oblongo, Tourn. 
inst. 152. 2. Capsicum fructu bifido, Tourn. l. e. 3. Capsi- 
cum siliquis surrectis et oblongis brevibus, Tourn. l. c. 4. 
Capsicum tereti spithamaeo, Tourn. 
Annual Capsicum, or Chilli, or Guinea Pepper. 
July. Clit. 1548. Pl. 1 to 2 feet. - 
2 C. r6xeum (D. C. hort. monsp. 1813. p. 86.) fruit oblong, 
acuminated, a little incurved ; petioles glabrous; stem herba- 
ceous. (2. H. Native country unknown. C. ánnuum, Hort. 
— Mor. hist. sect. 13. t. 2. f. 2. no. 6.—Clus. cur. post. p. 101. 
f. 9—10.—Dod. pempt. 716. f. 3.— Bauh. hist. 2. p. 943. f. 1. 
— Fuchs. icon. 733. Capsicum fructu tereti spithamzo, Tourn. 
inst. p. 152.? C. ánnuum, var. a, Ait. hort. kew. 2. p. 405: 
Long-fruited Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. Fl. June, July. 
Cit. 1548. Pl. 1 to 2 feet. 
3 C. corpirérme (Mill. dict. no. 2.) fruit heart-shaped ; 
stem herbaceous. ©.H. Native of India. Capsicum siliqua 
propendente oblonga et cordiformi, Tourn. inst. p. 152. Fruit 
yellow and red, variable in shape. The following varieties of 
this species are mentioned : 1. Fruit pendent, round or heart- 
shaped, Tourn. 2. Fruit broader and rounder, Tourn. 3. 
Fruit large, round, Tourn. 4. Fruit erect, round, Tourn. 5. 
Fruit erect, heart-shaped. In all these varieties the fruit varies 
from yellow to red. 
Var. B, majus, Fing. diss. t. 9. f. c. 
suppl. no. 222. 
Heart-shaped-fruited Capsicum, or Chilli pepper. 
July. Clt.? Pl. 2 feet. 
4 C. ancuLosum (Mill. dict. no. 4.) fruit heart-shaped, an- 
gular; stem herbaceous. ©. H. Native of India? Capsi- 
cum siliquis surrectis cordiformibus angulatis, Tourn. inst. p. 
153. Fruit large, pendulous, of 2 forms, obtuse, angular, ra- 
ther compressed, usually retuse and bifid at apex. Besser, cat. 
krzem. 1811. p. 27. Leaves wrinkled. Fruit red or scarlet, 
sometimes formed like a mitre at top, and sometimes campanu- 
late. More tender than the other annual kinds. 
Angular-fruited Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. Fl. June, July. 
Cit.? Pl. 1 to 2 feet. 
5 C. Mireni (Roem. et Schultes, syst. 4. p. 563.) stem 
Fl. June, 
C. ánnuum, Wall. cat. 
Fl. June, 
445 
herbaceous ; fruit round, glabrous. ©.?H. Native of New 
Spain, Miller. C. cerasifórme, Mill. dict. no. 5. Capsicum 
siliquis surrectis cerasiformis, Tourn. inst. 153. Leaves fasci- 
cled, pale green, on long petioles. Fruit red, size and shape of 
IV. Capsicum. 
apea. Perhaps only a variety of C. ánnuum. 
Miller's Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. Fl. June, July. Clt.? 
Pl. 1 foot. 
* 6 C. cénicum (Meyer, esseq. p. 112.) herbaceous ; branchlets 
downy, terete; fructiferous calyx almost quite entire; pedun- 
cles twin; fruit oblong-conical, erect; leaves solitary, rarely 
twin, ovate, acuminated, on short petioles, roughish on both 
surfaces, downy on the veins beneath, as well as the petioles. 
C.H. Native about the Essequibo, in plantations. C. fru- 
téscens, Rodschied, obs. p. 38. but not of Lin. Peduncles alar 
and axillary. Flowers drooping. Fruit croceous, shining. 
Conical-fruited Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. PI. ? 
7 C. rerraconum (Mill. dict. no. 3.) herbaceous ; fruit large, 
angular, obtuse. ©. H. Native of both Indies. Fing. diss. 
t. 10. f.d. Wall. cat. no. 224. Capsicum fructu longo ventre 
tumido, per summum, tetragono, Tourn. inst. p. 153. C. cy- 
donifórme, Hort. Berries always red, crowded, 1-2 inches 
long, subtetragonal at top, usually pendulous, rarely erect. 
Tetragonal-fruited Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. Fl. June, 
July. Clt.? Pl. 1 to 2 feet. 
* * Shrubby. Berries pendulous. 
8 C. spuz’ricum (Willd. enum. 1. p. 241.) fruit globose ; 
petioles glabrous; stem shrubby. kh. S. Native of India? 
Fing. diss. t. 9. f. a. C. cerasifórme, Wall. cat. no. 221. 
Shrub middle-sized ; branches dichotomous. Leaves ovate, 
acuminated, glabrous. Fruit size of a cherry. Said to differ 
from C. cerasifórme in the fruit being pendulous. 
Spherical-fruited Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. 
July. Clt. 1807. Shrub 2 feet. 
9 C. ova'tum (D. C. cat. hort. monsp. 1813. p. 86.) fruit 
ovate, acuminated ; petioles and leaves glabrous ; stem shrubby. 
b. S. Native country unknown. Peduncles shorter than the 
petioles. Calyx bluntly 5-toothed. Berry colour and size of a 
cherry, but ovate, pendulous, It differs from C. sphe'ricum 
only in the shape of the fruit. 
Ovate-fruited Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. 
Clt. 1824. Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 
10 C. pe’Nputum (Willd. enum. 1. p. 
petioles downy; stem shrubby. b. S. 
known. C. gróssum, f, Schultes, obs. no. 
long, red. 
Pendulous-fruited Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. 
July. Clt. 1804. Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 
11 C. rv'rEuM (Lam. ill. 2. no. 2392.) fruit ovate, 3-celled ; 
branches and petioles hairy ; stem shrubby, flexuous, h.S. 
Native of the East Indies. Stem subtetragonal. Leaves gla- 
brous, twin, or 4-5 in a fascicle. Flowers solitary or fascicled, 
supra-axillary. Corolla small, white, with short acute segments. 
Fruit yellow, oblong, middle-sized, on hardly recurved pedun- 
cles, downy. 
Yellow-fruited Capsicum. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1820. Shrub 
2 to 3 feet. 
12 C. cnóssuw (Lin. syst. 226.) fructiferous calyx bowl- 
shaped, spreading, sinuately toothed; fructiferous peduncles 
solitary, erect, or reflexed ; berry oblong or ovate, torose ; 
leaves ovate, acuminated ; branches downy. h.S. Native of 
India. Nees, in Lin. trans. 17. p. 62. Roxb. fl. ind. 2. p. 
260. Wall. cat. no. 2643.A.—Besl. hort. eyst. 2. t. 2. f. 1. 
Fruit large, pale red. 
Var. (3; branches smoothish; fruit pendulous; leaves 
broader, very unequal at the base, subrepand, or cut a little. 
h.S. Native of India. C. grossum, Wall. cat. no. 2643. B. 
Fl. April, 
Fl. June, Sept. 
242.) fruit oblong ; 
Native country un- 
299. Fruit an inch 
Fl. April, 
