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68 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
+ Fruit usually more than 14 in. long; peduncles shorter. 
++ Leaves and fruit fascicled; fruit erect. 
C. annuum fasciculatum (Sturt. ). 
Capsicum fasciculatum Sturtevant, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 15: 133. 
1888. 
‘«Stems smooth, green, round, subverrucose, swollen at 
the branchings and purple, dichotomous or trichotomous. 
Branches angular, few, erect-spreading, green, purple at 
insertion of petioles, subpubescent, bearing the leaves for 
the most part clustered or bunched at the swollen summits. 
Leaves spreading, crowded into bunches, nearly of one 
size, the larger ones 3% in. by 1} in., usually 3 in. by 4 in., 
elliptical-lanceolate, pointed at both ends, from the base 
extending equally into the petiole, deep green above, paler 
below, the middle nerve distinct; slightly scabrous, entire 
or subrepand; borne almost entirely in a confused mass 
along with the berries at the summit of branches, very 
rarely lower down. Petioles smooth, nearly as long as, or 
sometimes even longer than the leaves, slender, margined 
by the extension of the leaf blade. Peduncles smooth, 
angular, thickish, erect, enlarging towards calyx end, 
rather long, 14 in., grouped in clusters rather confusedly 
with the leaves, but the tendency of the grouping seeming 
to be in twos or threes, axillary or extra-axillary, Calyx 
cyathiform, embracing base of fruit, obscurely ten or 
twelve-nerved (5 or 6 distinct ), subpentagonal, subtruncate, 
five or six-toothed, the teeth acute, erect, smooth, Corolla 
white, quite large, about 4 in. in diameter, the divisions 
very long and narrow, often twisted. Berry cylindro-con- 
ical, straight or curved, about 3 in. long, by 3 in. diameter, 
or smaller, usually rugose, sometimes smooth, at first a 
shining green, then red; two-celled; the placenta thick at 
the base ; acrid. 
** This species differs principally from Capsicum annuum, 
Fingerhuth, by the round stem; pubescent and dichotom- 
ous or trichotomous branchings; freedom from lower 
leaves ; the leaves clustered at summits ; all of one size and 
