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the leaves but slightly darker on the upper surface than 
below. The larger growing plants are stouter and more 
branchy. Fruit usually slender, fusiform, smooth, ex- 
tremely pungent, red, sometimes blotched with brown 
before ripening, usually scattered so thickly over the 
plant as to give the appearance of a bouquet of corals.— 
Plate 9, f. 2. 
Taspasco.* Plant usually about 24 ft. high, with an 
erect spreading habit. Leaves often 4 in. long by 2} in. 
wide, dark green, usually distinctly pubescent along the 
veins. Fruit oblong cylindrical, obtuse or acute, usually 
compressed at the base by the calyx, deep red when ripe, 
the unripe ones often drying to an orange color, more fre- 
quently borne in twos than in other varieties of this group. 
CaYENNE.{ Plant more woody than others. Branches 
fewer but more erect, and quite rigid. Leaves deep green 
on upper surface, decidedly paler below. Calyx occasionally 
seated on base of fruit. Fruit usually as long as or slightly 
longer than the penduncles, subconical or ovate, obtuse, 
about 14 in. long, } in. diam., at first green, changing to 
blackish, then yellowish-red, finally red. 
ORANGE-RED CiusTER.{ Plants usually with a flattish 
top. Branches slender but rigid, purple striate, and de- 
cidedly purple at nodes. Leaves smooth, quite erect, very 
dark green on upper surface, much paler below. Fruit 
1-14 in. long, about as long as or longer than peduncles, 
very rigidly erect, standing prominently above the leaves, — 
of a beautiful orange-red color. The great number of 
fruits equally distributed over the symmetrical plant make 
it one of the most ornamental varieties.— Plate 9, f. 3 
* Described from Dr. Sturtevant’s notes and herbarium specimens. 
Seed received by him from MclIlhenny of New Iberia, La., 1888. 
+ Hovey, Seed Cat. 1888.—Described from Dr. Sturtevant’s notes 
and herbarium specimens. Seed received by him from Livingston, 
Columbus, O., 1888, who listed it as Cayenne of Commerce, in contrast 
“with the Long Cayenne. 
t Listed in Haage & Schmidt, Seed Cat. 15, 1893, under the German 
name Orangerother Trauben-Pfeffer. 
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