82 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



Piperis Indici varietas. Matth. Opera 434. /. 1598 ; 434. /. 1674. 

 Piper cum siliqua lata ac rugosa. Greg, de Keg. in Clus. Cur. Post. 99- 



100. /. 8. 1611. Jonstonus, Dendrog. t. 56. 1662. Raius, Hist. 



PL 1 : 678. 1686. 

 Capsicum siliqua lata & rugosa. Parkinson, Theat. Bot. 357-358. /. 5. 



1640. 



Capsicum bifurcata siliqua. Parkinson, Theat. Bot. 368. 1640. 

 Capsicum siliqua latiore & rotundiore. Bauhin. Hist. PI. 2: 943. /. 



1651. Tournef. Inst. 162. 1700. Boerhaave, Index. PI. 2:69. 



1727. Miller, Gard.Dict. 1771 [ed. 6]. 

 Piper Capsicum siliqua latiore & rotundiore. Chabraeus, Omn. Stirp. 



Sciag. 297. /. 1677. 

 Capsicum seu Piper Indicum siliqua longa ampliore & dulciore Mexi- 



canum. Morison, PI. Hist. Oxon. 8: 629. 1699. 

 Capsicum sive Piper Indicum longum ventre tumido, siliqua per summum 



tetragona. Morison, PI. Hist. Oxon. 8: 629. 1699. 

 Capsicum sive Piper Indicum maximum obtusum. Morison, PI. Hist. 



Oxon. 8:630. 1699. 

 Capsicum fructu longo, ventre tumido, per summum tetragono. Tournef. 



Inst. 152. 1700. 

 Capsicum fructu bifido. Tournef. Inst. 152. 1700. Tillus, Cat. PI. 



Pisa. 30. 1723. Boerhaave, Index PI. 2: 69. 1727. 

 Capsicum fructu tereti, oblongo, latifolium. Tillus, Cat. PL Pisa. 80. 



1723. 

 Capsicum; siliqua lata nervosa; rubra. Boerhaave, Index PL g: 69. 



1727. 

 Capsicum; Africanum, fructu pyramidal! pendulo rugosissimo. Miller, 



Gard. Diet. 1731 [no. 4]. 

 Capsicum; fructu maximo, oblongo rugoso plerumque nutante rubro. 



Miller, Gard. Diet. 1731 [no. 18]. 

 Solanum mordens bifurcata siliqua. Weinmann. Phyt. 349. t. 928. f. a. 



1746. 

 Turbilo-Pepper, Hughes, Hist. Barb. 213. 1760. Tide Maycock, Fl. 



Barb. 104. 1830. 



Plants herbaceous, 1^2 ft. high. Branches green, often 

 warty, glabrous, much enlarged at the nodes. Nodes 

 slightly blotched with purple, subhairy. Leaves thick, 

 dark green, often glossy on the upper surface, ovate, acu- 

 minate or sometimes obtuse ; lower ones very large, usually 

 3-5 in. long, 2|-3 in. wide, usually pendent, more or less 

 wrinkled, often slightly involute ; veins prominent, rarely 

 subpilose on the under surface; petioles 2-3 in. long, 

 stout, deeply channeled : upper ones smaller, quite erect, 

 rarely wrinkled or involute. Peduncles stout, -1 in. long, 



