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SOLANACE^:. IV. CAPSICUM. 



I'ar. y, cordatum (Fing. diss. t. 6. f. a.) fruit cordate. 



Var. S ? pomiferum (Martius, hort. erl. p. 65.) stem downy ; 

 fruit large, globose. 



I'ar. t, gtobbsmn (Besser. cat. Krzem. 1811. p. 27.) fruit 

 globosely depre-sed, erect. 



I'ar. , luteum (Bess. 1. c.) fruit ovate-conical, yellow, erect or 

 drooping. Schultes, obs. p. 45. no. 299. 



I'ar. ij, bifidum; fruit bifid. Capsicum fructu bifido, Tourn. 

 inst. mant. p. 152. 



Large-fruhed Capsicum, or Bell Pepper. Fl. July. Clt. 

 1 759. Shrub 1 to 3 feet. 



13 C. HAVANE'NSE (H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. S. p. 49.) 

 t'rutesceiit, dichotomous, divaricate ; stem glabrous, striated, 

 terete ; branches angular ; leaves ovate-oblong, glabrous ; pe- 

 duncles solitary, fructiferous ones reflexed ; berries oblong. Jj . 

 S. Native of Cuba, on the sea beach, among sand about the 

 Havana. Leaves solitary, rounded at the base, running into 

 the petioles, which are smoothish. Berry red, half an inch 

 long, girded by the calyx. 



Havana Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. Shrub. 



* * Shrubby. Fruit erect. 



14 C. CONOI'DES (Mill. diet. no. 8.) stem suffrutescent ; fruit 

 ovate-conical, erect. Ij . S. Native of both Indies. C. coni- 

 cuin, Lam. ill. no. 2390. C. erectum, var. annuum, Mart. enum. 

 liort. erl. p. 65. C. cerasiforme, S, macrocarpum, Besser. cat. 

 hort. Krzem. 1811. p. 27. Lob. icon. 317.? Shrub glabrous. 

 Leaves lanceolate, acute. Flowers extra-axillary. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, with 5 short teeth. Corolla cream-coloured. 



Conoid-fruited Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. Fl. June, July. 

 Clt. 1750. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



15 C. I-YRAMIDA'LE (Mill. diet. no. 1. Fing. diss. t. 3. f. 1.) 

 stem shrubby; leaves linear-lanceolate; fruit pyramidal, erect, 

 yellow. lj . S. Native of Egypt. Perhaps C. torulosum of 

 Jacq. hort. vind. 



Pyramidal-fmited Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. Fl. April, 

 July. Clt. 1750. Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 



16 C. CERASIFORME (Willd. spec. 1. p. 1651. exclusive of 

 the syn. of Mill. enum. 1. p. 242.) fruit globose; petioles gla- 

 brous ; stem shrubby. Tj . S. Native country unknown. Very 

 like C. frutescens ; but is distinguished from that species in the 

 fruit being globose, and the size of a cherry, red or yellow. 



Cherry-formed-frmied Capsicum, or Cherry Pepper. Fl. 

 June, Sept. Clt. 1739. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



17 C. CERASII'LORUM (Link, enum. 1. p. 190.) young petioles 

 ciliated ; berries erect, globose, solitary. Tj . S. Native coun- 

 try unknown. Very nearly allied to C. cerasiforme, but differs 

 in the petioles being ciliated. 



Cherry-floTvered Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. Fl. June, Sept. 

 Clt. 1823. Shrub. 



18 C. FRUTE'SCENS (Lin. hort. cliff, p. 59. spec. 271.) fructi- 

 ferous calyx cylindrical, subtruncate; fructiferous peduncles soli- 

 tary ; berry conically attenuated, incurved ; leaves oval, acumi- 

 nated at both ends ; petioles and branches, which are angular, 

 downy. ^ S- Native of India. Willd. spec. 1. p. 1051. Roxb. fl. 

 ind. 2. p. 201. Blum, bijdr. 704. H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. 3. p. 

 48. Nees, in Lin. trans. 17. p. 63. Capsicum minus rubrum 

 et flavum, Humph, amb. 5. p. 248. t. 88. f. 1 3. Capo Molago, 

 Rheed. mal. 2. p. 109. t. 56. Corolla white. Fruit size of an olive, 

 red or copper-coloured, or reddish-yellow. The red-fruited 

 kind is called Tschili-cuning, and the yellow-fruited sort Tschi- 

 li-mera. This species also furnishes the Cayenne-pepper of the 

 shops. The ripe pods are dried in the sun, and then in an oven, 

 after bread is baked, in an earthen or stone pot, with flour be- 

 tween the strata of pods. When quite dry they are cleaned 

 from the flour, and beaten or ground to fine powder. To every 

 ounce of this a pound of wheat flour is added, and it is made 



into small cakes with leaven ; these are baked again, that they 

 may be as dry and hard as biscuit, and then are beaten into 

 powder and sifted. It is then fit for use as a pepper, or for 

 being packed in a compressed state, and so as to exclude air, 

 for exportation. 



Var. /3, torulosum (Jacq. hort. vind.) fruit twice as large as 

 the species. 



Frutescent Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. Fl. June, Sept. Clt. 

 1756. Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 



19 C. BI'COLOR (Jacq. fragm. t. 99. f. 1.) fruit oblong, mu- 

 cronate ; petioles glabrous ; stem shrubby. Ij . S. Native of 

 the West Indies. Sims. bot. mag. 1835. C. nigrum, Willd. 

 enum. 1. p. 242. C. violaceum, Brouss. elench. monsp. 1804. 

 Desf. tabl. de 1'ecole, p. 83. D. C. cat. hort. monsp. 1813. 

 p. 87. Flowers large, subviolaceous. Fruit black or dark 

 purple. Calyx campanulate, obsoletely 5-toothed. 



Two-coloured Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. Fl. June, Sept. 

 Clt. 1804. Shrub 3 to 4 feet. 



20 C. PURPU'REUM (Vahl, herb, ex Horn. hort. hafn. 1. p. 

 224.) peduncles generally solitary ; fruit oblong, erect, mucro- 

 nate ; petioles glabrous ; stem shrubby ; branches divaricate. 



^2 . S. Native country unknown. Stem dark purple ; branches 

 striped with dark purple ; and the leaves spotted with the same 

 colour. 



Purple Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. Fl. June, Sept. Clt. ? 

 Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 



21 C. CHAM^CE'RASUS (Nees, in. Lin. trans. 17. p. 65.) fru- 

 tescent ; branches subtetragonar, contracted, glabrous ; fructi- 

 ferous calyx loose, large, cup-shaped, quite entire ; peduncles 

 solitary, erect ; berry globose ; leaves lanceolate, glabrous. Tj . 

 S. Native of India. C. cerasiforme, Poir. suppl. 5. p. 325. 

 but not of Willd. C. purpureum, Wall. cat. suppl. no. 206. 

 This species differs from C. cerasiforme in the large, cup- 

 shaped, entire calyx. 



Palse-cherry-fimted Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. Shrub. 



2. Peduncles generally twin. Fruit erect or pendulous. 

 * Shrubby. Berries erect. 



22 C. FASTIGIA'TUM (Blum, bijdr. 705.) frutescent ; branches 

 tetragonal, fastigiate, diverging, pubescently scabrous ; fructi- 

 ferous calyx subcylindrically truncate ; fructiferous peduncles 

 generally twin, erect ; berry oblong-cylindrical, straight ; leaves 

 oval or lanceolate, acuminated at both ends, minutely and serru- 

 lately ciliated. J? . S. Native of India. C. frutescens, Lin. spec. 

 1. p. 271. but not of hort. cliff. Burm. fl. ind. p. 58. Fing. diss. 

 exclusive of many of the synonymes. C. minimum, Roxb. fl. 

 ind. 2. p. 201. but not of Mill. 



Fastigiate-brnnched Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. Fl. June, 

 Sept. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



23 C. GLOBI'FERUM (Meyer, esseq. p. 113.) frutescent; 

 branches terete, tubercular ; fructiferous calyx nearly entire ; pe- 

 duncles twin ; fruit globose, .erect ; leaves twin or solitary, 

 ovate, acuminated at both ends, subciliated. (? . S. Native in 

 plantations about the Essequibo. C. baccatum, Rodschied, obs. 

 p. 38. Branches glabrous. Leaves rather scabrous on both 

 surfaces, downy while young. Flowers minute, drooping. 

 Berry size of a small cherry, pale yellow. 



Globe-bearing Capsicum, or Chilli Pepper. Fl. June, July. 

 Clt. 1824. Shrub 2 feet. 



24 C. MICROCA'RPUM (Brouss. elench. 1804. p. 12. D. C. 

 cat. hort. monsp. 1813. p. 86.) frutescent; petioles and leaves 

 downy ; calyx with 5 subulate spreading teeth ; peduncles 

 twin ; fruit ovate, erect, fj . S. Native country unknown. 

 Horn. hort. hafn. 2. p. 958. C. ciliare, Willd. enum. 1. p. 

 243.? Flowers small, white, furnished with 10 green spots on 

 the lower part of the limb. Pedicels striated, downy, ex D. C. 



