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Siliquastrum rotundum angustifolium. Bassaeus, Kicones 859. f. 1590.— 
Tabern. Kreuterbuch 2: 530. f. 1591; Volkom. Kreuterbuch 2: 559. 
f. 1618. 
Capsicum, Piper Indicum brevioribus siliquis. Lobel. Icones Stirp. 817. 
1591. 
@apsicum Brasilianum. Garcias ab Horto, Aromatum 888. 1593.— Clus. 
Exot. 340. f. 1605.— Pancovius. Herb. f. 297. 1678. 
Capsicum minimis siliquis. Gerarde, Herball 292. f. 2. 1597; 364. /. 
8. 1686.— Dodon. Hist. Stirp. Antv. 705. 1583; 717. 1616. 
Piper Brasilianum. Greg. de. Reg. in Clus. Cur. Post, 104. 1611. 
Capsicum minus Brasilianum. Parkinson, Theat. Bot. 856-857. f. 1640. 
Quiyaapua. Marcg. in Piso, De Med. Bras. 89. 1648. 
Piper siliquosum magnitudinis baccarum Asparagi. Bauhin, Hist. Pl. 2: 
944. f. 1651. 
Capsicum Brasilianum fructu rotundo. Munting, Waare Oeffen. Pl. 
841. 1682. 
Capsicum minus fructu rotundo, erecto, parvo, acerrimo. Sloane, Cat. 
Pl. Jam. 111. 1696. 
Capsicum sive Piper Brasilianum fructu erecto é rotundo oblongo 
minimo. Morison, Hist. Pl. Oxon. 3: 580, 1699. 
Capsicum minus rubrum. Rumph. Herb.Amboin. 5: 248.¢. 88. f.2. 1747. 
Capsicum; fructu parvo, rotundo, acerrimo. Miller, Gard. Dict. 1781 
{no. 15]. 
Plants 1-3 ft. high, under cultivation often 6 ft. 
Branches numerous, slender, fastigiate, flexuose, usually 
quite densely purple striate, scabrous, pubescent. Leaves 
ovate acuminate, rather abruptly narrowing into the 
petioles, solitary or in twos, more or less pubescent along 
the veins and sometimes on the surface. Petioles short, 
usually hairy, broadened at base. Peduncles solitary or in 
twos, extra axillary, vertical (giving a peculiar character 
to the plant), slender, 1-1} in. long, smooth or on young 
specimens subhairy. Calyx short, cyathiform, subhairy, 
subciliate. Corolla small, spreading about 4 in., greenish 
white. Fruit ovate or subround, about }in. diam. Un- 
ripe fruit sometimes changing from green to blackish 
spotted, finally ripening into a red or yellow. 
