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fruit. Corolla duU-wliite. Truit tapering, much longer tbau 

 broad, usually more or less curved, red, yellow or orange ; flesh 

 thin, pungent. Irish, Eev. Caps, in Missouri Bot. Gard. Eep. 9 

 (1898) p. 69, t. 10. Capsicum frutescens, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. v. 1, 

 p. 574 (not of Linn.) ; Grab. Cat. 4). 139 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. 

 p. 61 ; C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. FL B. I. v. 4, p. 239 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 173 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. V. 2, p. 137. The common ChilU largely cultivated.— 

 Vebk. Mirclii; LdlmircJii. 



Var. albreviata, Fingerh. Monogr. Gen. Caps. (1832) p. 14, t. 2, 

 fio- / Plant 1-2 ft. high ; branches numerous, more or less 

 angled. Leaves broadly ovate. Pedicels 1-1 1 in. long, usually 

 solitary. Berry seated on the calyx, not enclosed by it at the 

 base. Corolla 'dull-white. Fruit not or but Httle longer than 

 broad, circular in cross-section, usually snbconical, ovoid or 

 ellipsoid, more or less rugose, red or yellow when ripe, often 

 variously blotched with brown before ripening; flesh thni, 

 pungent. Irif^b, Eevis. Gen. Caps, in Missouri Bot. Gard. Eep. 

 9 (1898) p. 88, t. 28. Capsicum annmrm, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. v. 1, 

 p. 573. Cultivated sparingly, chiefly in the gardens of 

 Europeans. 



Tab. qrossa, Sendt. in Mart. Fl. Bras. v. 10 (1846-1856) p. 147. 

 Plant herbaceous, l|-2 ft. high; branches green, often warty, 

 enlarged at the nodes which are often blotched with purple. 

 Leaves thick, the lower ones very large, on stout petioles 2-3 in. 

 long. Pedicels stout. |-1 in. long. Calyx not emhracnig the 

 base of the fruit. Corolla large, spreading, dull-white. Fruit 

 large, angular in cross-section, prismatic, quadrate, or oblate, 

 more' or less sulcate, usually with a basal depression ; flesh thick, 

 scarcely at all pungent. 'Irish, Eevis. Gen. Caps, in Missouri 

 Bot Gard. Eep. 9 (1898) p. 80, tt. 15-24. Capsicum grossum 

 (sp ), Linn. Mantiss. (1767) p. 47 ; Grab. Cat. p. 139 ; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Suppl. p. 61 ; C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v^ 4, 

 p. 239 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 173; 

 Watt Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 139. C. ceratocarpum, Fingerh. 

 Mono'gr. Gen. Caps. (1832) p. 22, t. 6, fig. c. Spanish or 

 Monstrous Pepper, grown sparingly, chiefly in the gardens ot 

 Europeans. — \EJin.Kafri-mirchi ; Bopala-mirchi. 



Var. cerasiformis, Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. Martyn (1807) n. 1, f. 

 Shrubby, 1-2 ft. high ; branches numerous, 4-angled, green or 

 purplish, usually purple and much enlarged at the nodes. 

 Leaves ovate or oblong, acuminate. Pedicels |-^ in. long, usually 

 solitary. Calyx not embracing the bnse of the fruit. _ Corolla 

 laro-e, dull-white. Fruit spherical, subcordate, ^-1 in. in diam., 

 often, when unripe, blotched with purple on the side next the 

 sun • 'flesh firm, thick, extremely pungent. Irish, Eevis. Gen. 

 Caps, in Missouri But. Gard. Eep. 9 (1898) p. 92. Capsicum 

 cerasiforme (sp.). Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 6 (1752) n. 5 ; Fmgerh. 

 Monogr. Gen. Caps. (1832) p. 19, t. 5, fi-. h. C. grossum var. 

 cerasiformis, C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 239. 



