= i a 
Beaters 2 rons 
80 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
++ ++ ++ Calyx usually seated in a basal depression. 
Exvepnant’s Trunx.* Evidently a large form of Cardi- 
nal. Fruit 6-9 in. long, rarely about a foot, 24-34 in. 
diam., deeply furrowed and wrinkled, tapering gradually 
from the base to a prominently 3-4 lobed apex, often much 
curved and twisted, dark red; flesh somewhat pungent. 
Introduced about 1892.— Plate 13, f. 2. 
Procopr’s Giant.t Fruit 5-8 in. long, 13-2} in. diam. 
at base, very rugose and irregular in form; flesh quite thick 
(about } in.), slightly pungent. Introduced about 1888. 
Because of the many peculiar contortions it ordinarily 
assumes it is often considered a monstrosity.— Plate 14, f. 
2, and plate 15, f. 1. 
++ ++ ++ ++ Calyx usually cup-shaped and inclosing base of fruit. 
Ivory Tusx.t Plant quite a rank grower. Peduncles 
slender. Fruit 3-6 in. long, }-3 in. diam., pendent, 
straight or slightly curved, usually smooth at first, the ripe 
fruit often with few shallow longitudinal furrows, the 
glossy surface of the unripe fruit resembling a tusk, often 
of an ivory white sometimes tinged with green, finally 
becoming a deep red; flesh medium thin, moderately 
pungent. Introduced in 1894, and not yet very gen- 
erally disseminated.— Plate 11, f. 2. 
aa Fruit oblate or oblong, truncated, deeply lobed, furrowed and 
wrinkled; flesh mild, ;y-$ in. thick. 
C. annuum grossum Sendt. 
Capsicum grossum Linn. Mant. 47. 1767.— Thunb. Fl. Jap. 98, 1784.— 
Linn. Syst. 226, 1784 [ed. 14. Murray].— Aiton, Hort. Kew. 1: 254. 
* Benary, Seed Cat. 1895.—French, Trompe d’ éléphant.— German, 
Elephanten-Riissel. 
Capsicum annuum proboscideum. Haage & Schmidt, Gartenflora 41: 582, 
583, f. 125. 1892. 
+ Benary, Seed Cat. 1894.— German, Procopp’s riesen Pfeffer. 
¢ Childs, Cat. 1894, 
Capsicum ceratocarpum. Fingerh. Monogr. Gen. Capsici 22. t. 6. f. ¢. 
1832.— Dunal in DC. Prodr. 18!: 428. 1852. 
