446 
Var. y, cordatum (Fing. diss. t. 6. f. a.) fruit cordate. 
Var. ò? pomiferum (Martius, hort. erl. p. 65.) stem downy ; 
fruit large, globose. : 
Var. e, globósum (Besser. cat. Krzem. 1811. p. 27.) fruit 
globosely depressed, erect. i 
Var. £, lùteum (Bess. l. c.) fruit ovate-conical, yellow, erect or 
drooping. Schultes, obs. p. 45. no. 299. : 
Var. n, bifidum ; fruit bifid. Capsicum fructu bifido, Tourn. 
inst. mant. p. 152. 
Large-fruited Capsicum, or Bell Pepper. 
1759. Shrub | to 3 feet. 
13 C. Havaxz'sse (H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. 3. p. 49.) 
frutescent, dichotomous, divaricate; stem glabrous, striated, 
terete; branches angular; leaves ovate-oblong, glabrous; pe- 
duncles solitary, fructiferous ones reflexed ; berries oblong. b. 
S. Native of Cuba, on the sea beach, among sand about the 
Havana. Leaves solitary, rounded at the base, running into 
the petioles, which are smoothish. Berry red, half an inch 
long, girded by the calyx. 
Havana Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. Shrub. 
* * * Shrubby. Fruit erect. 
14 C. coxorpzs (Mill. dict. no. 8.) stem suffrutescent ; fruit 
ovate-conical, erect. h.S. Native of both Indies. C. cóni- 
cum, Lam. ill. no. 2390. C. eréctum, var. ánnuum, Mart. enum. 
hort. erl. p. 65. C. cerasifórme, 6, macrocárpum, Besser. cat. 
hort. Krzem. 1811. p. 27.—Lob. icon. 317.? Shrub glabrous. 
Leaves lanceolate, acute. Flowers extra-axillary. Calyx cam- 
panulate, with 5 short teeth. Corolla cream-coloured. 
Conoid-fruited Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. Fl. June, July. 
Cit. 1750. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 
15 C. pyramipa‘te (Mill. dict. no. 1. Fing. diss. t. 3. f. 1.) 
stem shrubby ; leaves linear-lanceolate; fruit pyramidal, erect, 
yellow. h. S. Native of Egypt. Perhaps C. torulosum of 
Jacq. hort. vind. 
Pyramidal-fruited Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. 
July. Clt. 1750. Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 
16 C. cznasrrónME (Willd. spec. 1. p. 1651. exclusive of 
the syn. of Mill. enum. 1. p. 242.) fruit globose; petioles gla- 
brous; stem shrubby. 5. S. Native country unknown. Very 
like C. frutéscens; but is distinguished from that species in the 
fruit being globose, and the size of a cherry, red or yellow. 
Cherry-formed-fruited Capsicum, or Cherry Pepper. Fl. 
June, Sept. Clt. 1739. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 
17 C. cEnastrrrónuM (Link, enum. 1. p. 190.) young petioles 
ciliated ; berries erect, globose, solitary. h.S. Native coun- 
try unknown. Very nearly allied to C. cerasifórme, but differs 
in the petioles being ciliated. 
Cherry-flomered Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. 
Cit. 1823. Shrub. 
18 C. rrute’scens (Lin. hort. cliff. p. 59. spec. 271.) fructi- 
ferous calyx cylindrical, subtruncate; fructiferous peduncles soli- 
tary; berry conically attenuated, incurved ; leaves oval, acumi- 
nated at both ends; petioles and branches, which are angular, 
downy. h.S. Native of India. Willd. spec. 1. p. 1051. Roxb. fl. 
ind. 2. p. 201. Blum. bijdr. 704. H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. 3. p. 
48. Nees, in Lin. trans. 17. p. 63. Capsicum minus rubrum 
et flavum, Rumph. amb. 5. p. 248. t. 88. f. 1—3. Capo Molago, 
Rheed. mal. 2. p. 109. t. 56. Corolla white. Fruit size of an olive, 
red or copper-coloured, or reddish-yellow. The red-fruited 
kind is called Tschili-cuning, and the yellow-fruited sort Tschi- 
li-mera. This species also furnishes the Cayenne-pepper of the 
shops. The ripe pods are dried in the sun, and then in an oven, 
after bread is baked, in an earthen or stone pot, with flour be- 
tween the strata of pods. When quite dry they are cleaned 
from the flour, and beaten or ground to fine powder. To every 
ounce of this a pound of wheat flour is added, and it is made 
Fl. July. Clt. 
Fl. April, 
Fl. June, Sept. 
SOLANACEE. 
IV. Capsicum. 
into small cakes with leaven ; these are baked again, that they 
may be as dry and hard as biscuit, and then are beaten into 
powder and sifted. It is then fit for use as a pepper, or for 
being packed in a com pressed state, and so as to exclude air, 
for exportation. ; j 
Var. B, toruldsum (Jacq. hort. vind.) fruit twice as large as 
the species. $ 
Frutescent Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. 
1756. Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 
19 C. mYcoron (Jacq. fragm. t. 99. f. 1.) fruit oblong, mu- 
cronate; petioles glabrous; stem shrubby. kh.S. Native of 
the West Indies. Sims. bot. mag. 1835. C. nigrum, Willd. 
enum. 1. p. 242. C. violàceum, Brouss. elench. monsp. 1804. 
Desf. tabl. de l'ecole, p. 83. D.C. cat. hort. monsp. 1813. 
p. 87. Flowers large, subviolaceous. Fruit black or dark 
purple. Calyx campanulate, obsoletely 5-toothed. 
Two-coloured Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. Fl. June, Sept. 
Clt. 1804. Shrub 3 to 4 feet. 
20 C. purru'reum (Vahl, herb. ex Horn. hort. hafn. 1. p. 
224.) peduncles generally solitary ; fruit oblong, erect, mucro- 
nate; petioles glabrous; stem shrubby; branches divaricate, 
h.S. Native country unknown. Stem dark purple; branches 
striped with dark purple; and the leaves spotted with the same 
colour. 
Purple Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. 
Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 
21 C. cnamaxce’rasus (Nees, in. Lin. trans. 17. p. 65.) fru- 
tescent; branches subtetragonal, contracted, glabrous ; fructi- 
ferous calyx loose, large, cup-shaped, quite entire; peduncles 
solitary, erect ; berry globose ; leaves lanceolate, glabrous. h. 
S. Native of India. C. cerasifórme, Poir. suppl. 5. p. 325. 
but not of Willd. C. purpüreum, Wall. cat. suppl. no. 206, 
This species differs from C. cerasifórme in the large, cup- 
shaped, entire calyx. ; 
False-cherry-fruited Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. 
Fl. June, Sept. Clt. 
Fl. June, Sept. Clt.? 
Shrub. 
§ 2. Peduncles generally twin. Fruit erect or pendulous. 
* Shrubby. Berries erect. 
22 C. rasricrA TUM (Blum. bijdr. 705.) frutescent; branches 
tetragonal, fastigiate, diverging, pubescently scabrous ; fructi- 
ferous calyx subcylindrically truncate; fructiferous peduncles . 
generally twin, erect ; berry oblong-cylindrical, straight ; leaves 
oval or lanceolate, acuminated at both ends, minutely and serru- 
lately ciliated. h.S. Native of India. C. frutéscens, Lin. spec. 
1. p. 271. but not of hort. cliff. Burm. fl. ind. p. 58. Fing. diss. 
exclusive of many of the synonymes. C. minimum, Roxb. fl. 
ind. 2. p. 201. but not of Mill. 
Fastigiate-branched Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. Fl. June, 
Sept. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 
23 C. cLosi'rerum (Meyer. esseq. p. 113.) frutescent; 
branches terete, tubercular ; fructiferous calyx nearly entire ; pe- 
duncles twin; fruit globose, erect; leaves twin or solitary, 
ovate, acuminated at both ends, subciliated. ^5. S. Native in 
plantations about the Essequibo. C. baccàtum, Rodschied, obs. 
p. 38. Branches glabrous. Leaves rather scabrous on both 
surfaces, downy while young. lowers minute, drooping. 
Berry size of a small cherry, pale yellow. 
Globe-bearing Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. Fl. June, July. 
Clt. 1824. Shrub 2 feet. 
24 C. microca’rrum (Brouss. elench. 1804. p. 12. D.C. 
cat. hort. monsp. 1813. p. 86.) frutescent ; petioles and leaves 
downy ; calyx with 5 subulate spreading teeth ; peduncles 
twin; fruit ovate, erect. h. S. Native country unknown. 
Horn. hort. hafn. 2. p. 958. C. ciliare, Willd. enum. 1. P- 
243.? Flowers small, white, furnished with 10 green spots on 
the lower part of the limb. Pedicels striated, downy, ex D. ©. 
