( 1835 ) 



Capsicum bicolor. Dark- fruited 

 Capsicum. 



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C7#ss «wd Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 

 Cor. rotata. Bacca exsucca. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Capsicum bicolor; pedunculis solitariis fructibus oblongis 



subconicis, corollae laciniis trinerviis bicoloribus, caule 



fruticoso. 

 Capsicum bicolor. Jacq. Fragm. t. 99. /. 1. 

 Capsicum nigrum; pedunculis solitariis, fructibus oblongis 



erectis mucronatis, petiolis glabris, caule fruticoso. 



Willd. Enum. 242. 



As Jacquin had given a figure of Capsicum bicolor in bis 

 Fragmenta, some time prior to Willdenow's publication, 

 we do not see that the latter author had any good reason for 

 changing its name, we have therefore thought it right to 

 restore the original appellation. 



In a genus so subject to vary in the form of its fruit, it is 

 not easy to find good specific characters ; in this instance the 

 fruit, though sometimes terminated in a sharp point, is at 

 others quite obtuse, without appearance of mucro. The 

 most striking difference between this species and frutescens, 

 consists in the size and colour of the corolla, and the dark 

 purple colour of the unripe fruit ; for when mature this 

 changes to red ; the leaves and branches, when the plant 



is 



