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usually embracing base of fruit. Corolla medium, spread- 
ing 3-} in., dingy white. Fruit very slender, 4-4} in. 
long, 3-3 in. diam., smooth or subrugose, usually more or 
less curved, 2-celled; flesh very thin, about ; in. thick, 
extremely pungent, red or yellow. The long fruit of this 
and the preceding variety is sometimes called finger-pepper. 
= Fruit erect. 
Camu." Plants about 2} ft. high, very branchy. Fruit 
borne about even with the leaves, at first a shining green 
afterwards becoming coral red, 2-3 in. long, nearly straight, 
smooth or subrugose ; base sometimes slightly compressed 
by the calyx. This differs from Chili as described by 
Burr ¢ in having shorter and erect fruit. Dr. Sturtevant’s 
notes indicate both pendent and erect forms. Plants 
grown by us from seed of many sources produced almost 
* Red Chili. Hovey, Cat. 1889.— Chili Pepper. Burr, Field & Gard. 
Veg. 622. 1863.— Long Cayenne. Hend. Cat. 1884.— Chili Pepper, or 
Chillies. Vilmorin-And. Veg. Gard. 151. 1885 (Eng. ed, Robinson ].— 
Chili. Bailey, Bull. Mich. Agr. Col. 31: 38. 1887.—French, Piment du 
Chili.— German, Chilenischer scharfer Pfeffer. 
Capsicum conicum Meyer, FI. Esseq. 112. 1818.— Linn. Syst. 4: 809. 
1819 [ed. Rém. et Schult.].— Fingerh. Monogr. Gen. Capsici 16. 
1832.—Don, Hist. Dich. Pl. 4: 445. 1838.—Dunal in DC. Prodr. 18): 
415. 1852. 
Capsicum annuum acuminatum Fingerh. Monogr. Gen. Capsici 13. ¢. 2. i. 
¢. 1832.—Dunal in DC, Prodr. 18!: 412, 1852. 
Capsicum conicum orientale. Dunal, |. c. 415, 
Capsicum Chilense Hort. Vilmorin-And. Fl. Pleine Terre 885. 1870 
[3d ed.]. 
Piper Indicum surrectis corniculis. Camerar. Hort. Med, 127. 1588. 
Piper Indicum siliquis surrectis & oblongis. diff. 1. Pyramidale majus. 2. 
pyramidale minus. Bauhin. Pinax 102. 1623. 
Capsicum siliquis surrectis & oblongis, brevibus. Tournef. Inst. 152. 
1700.— Miller, Gard. Dict. 1771 [ed. 6]. 
Piper Indicum medium longum erectum. Hort. Eyst.1. Aut. Ord. 1:11. 
be Fue ot i 
Capsicum surrectum, medium Styli forma. Tillus, Cat. Pl. Pisa. 30. 1723. 
Solanum mordens fructu longo erecto. Weinmann. Phyt. 349, ¢. 928. A 
e. 1745, 
+ Burr, Field and Gard. Veg. 611. 1865, 
