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usually embracing base of fruit. Corolla medium, spread- 

 ing -J-J in., dingy white. Fruit very slender, -J-4^- in. 

 long, -J | in. diani., smooth or subrugose, usually more or 

 less curved, 2-celled; flesh very thin, about -fa in. thick, 

 extremely pungent, red or yellow. The long fruit of this 

 and the preceding variety is sometimes called finger-pepper. 



= Fruit erect. 



CHILLI.* Plants about 2^ ft. high, very branchy. Fruit 

 borne about even with the leaves, at first a shining green 

 afterwards becoming coral red, 2-3 in. long, nearly straight, 

 smooth or subrugose ; base sometimes slightly compressed 

 by the calyx. This differs from Chili as described by 

 Burr f in having shorter and erect fruit. Dr. Sturtevant's 

 notes indicate both pendent and erect forms. Plants 

 grown by us from seed of many sources produced almost 



* Bed ChiU. Hovey, Cat. 1889. Chili Pepper. Burr, Field & Gard. 

 Veg. 622. 1863. Long Cayenne. Hend. Cat. 1884. ChiU Pepper, or 

 Chillies. Vilmorin-And. Veg. Gard. 151. 1885 [Eng. ed. Robinson]. 

 Chili. Bailey, Bull. Mich. Agr. Col. 31: 38. 1887, French, Piment du 

 Chili. German, Chileniacher scharfer Pfeffer. 



Capsicum conicum Meyer, Fl. Esseq. 112. 1818. Linn. Syst. 4: 809. 



1819 [ed. R6'm. et Schult."]. Fingerh. Monogr. Gen. Capsici 16. 



1832. Don, Hist. Dich. PL 4 : 445. 1838 . Dunal in DC. Prodr. 13 1 : 



415. 1852. 

 Capsicum annuum acuminatum Fingerh. Monogr. Gen. Capsici 13. t. 2.f. 



c. 1832. Dunal in DC. Prodr. 13 1 : 412. 1852. 

 Capsicum conicum orientale. Dunal, 1. c. 415. 

 Capsicum Chilense Hort. Vilmorin-And. Fl. Pleinc Terre 886. 1870 



[3d ed.]. 



Piper Indicum surrectis corniculis. Camerar. Hort. Med. 127. 1688. 

 Piper Indicum siliquis surrectis & oblongis. difC. 1. Pyramidale majus. 2. 



pyramidale minus. Bauhin. Pinax 102. 1623. 

 Capsicum siliquis surrectis & oblongis, brevibus. Tournef . Inst. 162. 



1700. Miller, Gard. Diet. 1771 [ed. 6]. 

 Piper Indicum medium longum erectum. Hort. Eyst. 1. Aut. Ord. 1 :11. 



/. 2. 1713. 



Capsicum surrectum, medium Styli forma. Tillus, Cat. PI. Pisa. 30. 1723. 

 Solanum mordens fructu longo erecto. Weinmann. Phyt. 349. t. 928. /. 

 e. 1745. 



t Burr, Field and Gard. Veg. 611. 1866. 



