82 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
Piperis Indici varietas. Matth. Opera 434, f. 1598; 484. f. 1674. 
Piper cum siliqua lata ac rugosa. Greg. de Reg. in Clus. Cur. Post. 99- 
100. f. 8. 1611.—Jonstonus, Dendrog. t. 56. 1662,— Raius, Hist. 
Pl. 1: 678. 1686, 
Capsicum siliqua lata & rugosa. Parkinson, Theat. Bot. 857-358. /. 3, 
1640. 
Capsicum bifurcata siliqua. Parkinson, Theat. Bot. 358. 1640, 
Capsicum siliqua latiore & rotundiore. Bauhin. Hist. Pl. 2: 943. f. 
1651.— Tournef. Inst. 152. 1700,— Boerhaave, Index. Pl. @: 69. 
1727.—Miller, Gard. Dict. 1771 [ed, 6]. 
Piper Capsicum siliqua latiore & rotundiore. Chabraeus, Omn. Stirp. 
Sciag. 297. f. 1677. 
Capsicum seu Piper Indicum siliqua longa ampliore & dulciore Mexi- 
canum. Morison, Pl. Hist. Oxon. 8: 529. 1699. 
Capsicum sive Piper Indicum longum ventre tumido, siliqua per summum 
tetragona. Morison, Pl. Hist. Oxon. 8: 529. 1699. 
Capsicum sive Piper Indicum maximum obtusum. Morison, Pl. Hist. 
Oxon. 8: 530. 1699. 
Capsicum fructu longo, ventre tumido, per summum tetragono. Tournef. 
Inst. 152. 1700, 
Capsicum fructu bifido. Tournef. Inst. 152. 1700.— Tillus, Cat. Pl, 
Pisa. 80. 1723.—Boerhaave, Index Pl. 2: 69. 1727. 
Capsicum fructu tereti, oblongo, latifolium. Tillus, Cat. Pl, Pisa. 80. 
1723, 
Capsicum; siliqua lata nervosa; rubra. Boerhaave, Index Pl. §: 69. 
1727, 
Capsicum; Africanum, fructu pyramidali pendulo rugosissimo. Miller, 
Gard. Dict. 1781 [no. 4]. 
Capsicum; fructu maximo, oblongo rugoso plerumque nutante rubro, 
Miller, Gard, Dict. 1781 [no. 18]. 
Solanum mordens bifurcata siliqua. Weinmann. Phyt. 349. ¢. 928. f. a. 
1745, 
Turbilo-Pepper, Hughes, Hist. Barb. 218. 1750. Fide Maycock, Fl. 
Barb. 104. 1830, 
Plants herbaceous, 14-2 ft. high. Branches green, often 
warty, glabrous, much enlarged at the nodes. Nodes 
slightly blotched with purple, subhairy. Leaves thick, 
dark green, often glossy on the upper surface, ovate, acu- 
minate or sometimes obtuse ; lower ones very large, usually 
3-5 in. long, 21-3 in. wide, usually pendent, more or less 
wrinkled, often slightly involute; veins prominent, rarely 
subpilose on the under surface; petioles 2-3 in. long, 
stout, deeply channeled: upper ones smaller, quite erect, 
rarely wrinkled or involute. Peduncles stout, {1 in. long, 
