A REVISION OF THE GENUS CAPSICUM. 17 
in. wide, more or less blotched with purple especially along 
the veins, smooth, slightly puffed; petiole 3-134 in. long. 
Peduncles straight or curved on same plant, 41+ in. long, 
quite slender. Corolla spreading {-4 in., purple or purple 
striate along the margins of the petals. Ovary green at 
first but soon after the corolla drops becoming a dark glossy 
purple. Fruit upright, spreading, or pendent, on same 
plant, 2-4 in. long, 4-$ in. diam., tapering toa rounded or 
sometimes acute apex, smooth or somewhat irregularly 
curved, 1-2 celled; base usually narrowing into the calyx; 
flesh about J, in. thick, quite firm, extremely pungent; 
black or dark purple, ripening into a deep orange-red 
mottled with dingy brown spots. 
+ Corolla white. 
++ Calyx pateriform, usually not entirely covering the flat Lase of 
the fruit. 
Lone Rep.* Branches often quite prominently purple 
striate. Corolla spreading about 14 in. Fruit 4-7 in. 
long, $-14 in. diam., oblong conical, frequently more or 
less curved, with an acute, rounded or sometimes obscurely 
2-3 lobed apex, smooth, sometimes obscurely furrowed 
Capsicum bicolor purpureum Fingerh. Monogr. Gen. Capsici 16. 1832,— 
Dunal in DC. Prodr. 131: 414. 1852. 
Capsicum Hamiltonii Don, Hist. Dich. Pl. 4: 447. 1838.— Dunal in DC. 
Prodr. 18!: 429. 1852. 
Capsicum longum violaceum Dunal in DC. Prodr. 181: 424. 1852. 
Capsicum Narunca Hort. Matr. ex Dun.in DC. Prodr. 181: 414. 1852. 
Fide Index Kewensis. 
Capsicum siliquis longis, propendentibus, purpureis. Haller, Enum. 
Hort. Gott. 215. 1753. 
* Burr, Field & Gard.Veg. 622. 1863.— Vilmorin-And. Veg. Gard. 150. 
1885 [Eng. ed. Robinson ].— Bailey, Bull. Mich. Agr. Col. 31:39. 1887.— 
Coral Peppers. Titford, Hort. Bot. 1812,— French, Piment rouge long, 
Piment rouge long ordinaire.— German, Langer rother Pfeffer. 
Capsicum longum DC. Cat. Monsp. 86. 18138.— Linn. Syst. 4: 560. 1819 
(ed. R6m et Schult.].— Hornem. Hort, Hafn. Suppl. 27. 1819.— 
Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Reg. Berol. 1: 190. 1821.— Miquel, Fl. Ind. 
2:658. 1856; Mus. Lugd.-Bat. 8: 117. 1867. 
