72 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



Leaves medium, dark green, l|-3 in. long, 1-1^ in. 

 wide; petioles medium, 1-1-} m - long. Peduncles solitary, 

 medium stout, 1-1^ m ' l n g curved or recurved. Corolla 

 white, spreading f-li in. Fruit 3-4 in. long (rarely more), 

 i-f- in. diam., pendent, oblong acuminate, usually sub- 

 rugose and more or less curved, usually transversely fur- 

 rowed; flesh very thin and extremely pungent. Plate 

 11, f . 3. 



The earlier catalogue accounts of Cayenne, True Cayenne, 

 or Small Cayenne, refer to another variety, here called 

 Cayenne. Vilmorin mentions Long Cayenne as a sub- 

 variety of Long Eed and belonging to a different botanical 

 species from the True Cayenne. 



LONG YELLOW CAYENNE.* Identical with the preceding 

 except that the fruit is of a bright yellow color. Plate 12, 

 f. 1. 



Capsicum siliquis longis recurvis. Bauh. Phyt. 155. 1596. 



Piper longum minus siliquis recurvis. Greg, de Reg. in Clus. Cur. 



Post. 101, /. 10, 102. 1611. Jonstonus, Dendrog. t. 56. 1662. 

 Piper Calecuticum, sive Capsicum oblongius. Bauhin. Hist. PI. Ebrod. 



2:943. 1651. 

 Chilli, Piper siliquosumMexicanum. Hernand. Nov. Hist. Romae 1 : 135. 



1651. 



Siliquastrum. Pancovius, Herb./. 296. 1678. 

 Piper Capsicum. Chabraeus, Sciag. 297. /. 1677. 

 Solanum Capsicum dictum, propendentibus siliquis oblongis recurvis. 



Hermann. Hort. Acad. Lugd.-Bat. 576. 1687. 

 Capsicum sive Piper Indicum minus siliquis recurvis. Morison, Hist. PI. 



Oxon. 3: 529. 1699. 

 Solanum, urens siliqua propendente rubra. Morison, 1. c. Sect. 13. t. 2. 



f. 1699. 

 Capsicum siliquis recurvis, minus. Tournef. Inst. 152. 1700. Tillus, 



Cat. PI. Hort. Pisa. 30. 1723. Boerhaave, Index PI. Lugd.-Bat. 2: 



68. 1727. 

 Piper Indicum minus recurvis siliquis. Hort. Eyst. 1. Aut. Ord. 1: 6. /. 



2. 1713. 

 Solanum mordens siliquis oblongis recurvis. Weinmann. Phyt. 349. J. 



927. f.d. 1745. 



* Henderson, Cat. 1884. 

 Capsicum longum luteum Fingerh. Monogr. t. 7. /. b. 1832. 



