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A REVISION OF THE GENUS CAPSICUM. 99 
at the nodes, green, or sometimes purplish striate, slightly 
purple at the nodes. Leaves broadly ovate acuminate, 3-6 
in. long, 2-3} in. wide, usually puffed or wrinkled, more 
or less pubescent especially along the veins.  Petioles 
medium, usually subciliaté. Peduncles slender, 1-2 in. 
long, often in pairs, usually longer than the fruit. Calyx 
usually cup-shaped embracing base of the fruit, teeth 
short. Corolla white or greenish-white, spreading $—} 
in., often with ocherous markings in the throat. Fruit red, 
ovate, obtuse, or oblong acuminate, 3-1} in. long, 4-4 in. 
diam. 
As the fruit of this species does not ripen freely except 
in tropical and subtropical latitudes it is not grown com- 
mercially in the north. However a number of cultivated 
varieties from Mexico and Brazil,* which evidently belong to 
this species, have been grown by Dr. Sturtevant at Geneva, 
New York, and by the writer at the Missouri Botanical 
Garden. By starting them early in the season with the aid 
of artificial heat most of the varieties produced some ripe 
fruit. The plants however did not attain the size and vigor 
which they reach in their native habitat. The fruit is 
often called ‘* bird pepper.’’ 
aa Fruit ovate or subround, usually seated on the calyx. 
C. frutescens baccatum (L.).f 
Capsicum baccatum Linn. Mant. 47. 1767.— Aiton, Hort. Kew. 1: 
253, 1789.—Linn. Syst. 226. 1784 [ed. 14 Murray].—Loureiro, FI. 
Cochin 1: 127. 1790; 1: 157. 1793 [ed. Willd.].— Lam. Enc. Meth. 
* The following varieties sent from Mexico by Dr. Palmer are referred 
to this species:— Chili de arvol, Chili pico de pijaro, Chili Piquin, Chilé 
Unque, and Mirasol, together with the following sent from Brazil by 
Prof. O. A. Derby:— Pimentas cemerim grande, Pimentas dido de dama, 
Pimentas Malagueti, and Pimentas pitanga. 
4 Supposed wild specimens examined from Bolivia (Bang, no. 1126, 
1891); Paraguay (Morong, no. 961, 1888-90); Mexico (Pringle, 1888) ; 
Texas (Pammel, 1888; Trelease, 1897). 
The following varieties sent from Brazil by Prof. Derby are referred 
to this group:— Pimentas Mariana, and Pimentas Cumary, together with 
one from Mexico by Dr. Palmer,—Chiltepin. 
