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in. wide, more or less blotched with purple especially along 

 the veins, smooth, slightly puffed; petiole -J-l^- in. long. 

 Peduncles straight or curved on same plant, -J-ly in. long, 

 quite slender. Corolla spreading J f in., purple or purple 

 striate along the margins of the petals. Ovary green at 

 first but soon after the corolla drops becoming a dark glossy 

 purple. Fruit upright, spreading, or pendent, on same 

 plant, 2-4 in. long, -J-f in. diam., tapering to a rounded or 

 sometimes acute apex, smooth or somewhat irregularly 

 curved, 1-2 celled; base usually narrowing into the calyx; 

 flesh about -fa in. thick, quite firm, extremely pungent; 

 black or dark purple, ripening into a deep orange-red 

 mottled with dingy brown spots. 



- Corolla white. 



n- Calyx pateriform, usually not entirely covering the flat base of 

 the fruit. 



LONG RED.* Branches often quite prominently purple 

 striate. Corolla spreading about 1^ in. Fruit 4-7 in. 

 long, i-l|- in. diam., oblong conical, frequently more or 

 less curved, with an acute, rounded or sometimes obscurely 

 2-3 lobed apex, smooth, sometimes obscurely furrowed 



Capsicum bicolor purpureum Fingerh. Monogr. Gen. Capsici 16. 1832. 



Dunal in DC. Prodr. IS 1 : 414. 1852. 

 Capsicum Hamiltonii Don, Hist. Dich. PI. 4: 447. 1838, Dunal in DC. 



Prodr. IS 1 : 429. 1852. 



Capsicum longum violaceum Dunal in DC. Prodr. IS 1 : 424. 1852. 

 Capsicum Narunca Hort. Matr. ex Dun. in DC. Prodr. IS 1 : 414. 1852. 



Fide Index Kewensis. 

 Capsicum siliquis longis, propendentibus, purpureis. Haller, Enum. 



Hort. Gott. 215. 1753. 



* Burr, Field & Gard. Veg. 622. 1863. Vilmorin-And. Veg. Card. 150. 

 1885 [Eng. ed. Robinson] . Bailey, Bull. Mich. Agr. Col. 31 : 39. 1887. 

 Coral Peppers. Titford, Hort. Bot. 1812. French, Piment rouge long, 

 Piment rouge long ordinaire. German, Langer rother Pfeffer. 



Capsicum longum DC. Cat. Monsp. 86. 1813. Linn. Syst. 4: 560. 1819 

 [ed. Rom et Schult.]. Hornem. Hort. Hafn. Suppl. 27. 1819. 

 Link, Enum. PI. Hort. Reg. Berol. 1: 190. 1821. Miquel, Fl. Ind. 

 2:658. 1856; Mus. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 117. 1867. 



