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+ + Not changing from green to light yellow. 
++ Usually more or less turbinate. 
Rep Wrinxiep.* Plants 1-2 ft. high, often spreading 
2-3 ft. Branches often purple striate. Leaves 2-3} in. 
long, 14-2 in. wide; petioles 1-1;¢ in. long. Peduncles 
curved, usually $-1 in. long, slender, slightly enlarged 
toward calyx end. Corolla greenish white, spreading 3-4 
in. Fruit very rugose, about 1 in. long, {-% in. diam., 
pendent or nodding, usually turbinate, with projecting 
nipples, bright red when ripe.— Plate 27, f. 3. 
Yettow Wrinstep.t Identical with the preceding 
except that the fruit is of a bright yellow color. 
++ ++ Not usually turbinate. 
Prinogss or Wates.t— Plants 1-1} ft. high, quite erect, 
branches numerous, slender, stiff, puberulent, scarcely 
more hairy at the nodes, leaves often puffed or wrinkled, 
2~3} in. long, 1}-2 in. wide, pubescent on veins below, 
ciliate; petioles medium short. Peduncles usually curved, 
slender, smooth. Corolla greenish white, usually spread- 
ing about } in. Fruit conical to ovate-elliptical, 1-14 in. 
long, 4-1 in. diam., more or less sulcate, rarely turbinate, 
at first dark green, becoming blotched with purple, finally 
* Thorburn’s Fancy Red Wrinkled. Thorburn, Cat. 1892— German, 
Runaliger rother Pfeffer. 
Capsicum umbilicatum Vell. Fl. Flum. Repr. in Rio de Jan. Arch. Mus. 
Nac. 6: 60. 1881.— Dunal in DC. Prodr. 181: 428. 1852. — Sturt. 
Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 15: 108. 1888. 
¢ Thorburn, Cat. 1892.— German, Runeliger gelber Pfeffer. 
¢ Williams, Cat. 1878. 
Capsicum luteum Lam. Enc. Meth. 2:26. 17983 [no. 2392].— Poiret, 
Enc. Meth. 5: 327. 1804.— Linn. Syst. 4: 462. 1819 [ed. ROm. et 
Schult. ].— Fingerh. Monogr. 26.t. 8.f.¢. 1882.— Don, Hist. Dich. 
Pl. 4: 445. 1838.— Dunal in DC. Prodr. 181: 425. 1852. 
Piper siliqua flava. Greg. de Reg. in Clus. Cur. Post. 102. 7.72. 1611.— 
Raius, Hist. Pl. 1: 678. 1686. 
Solanum mordens seu Capsicum fructu flavescente. Weinmann. 349. ¢. 
930.f.a 1745. 
