86 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



from Ruby King about 1886. The fruit appears to be a 

 little shorter in proportion to the diameter than Ruby 

 King, otherwise the same except that the color is a bright 

 golden yellow. Introduced about 1893. Plate 22, f. 1. 



++ ++ Fruit erect, not usually oblate. 



BRAZILIAN UPRIGHT.* Plant about 2 ft. high, foliage 

 rather dense. Leaves 3-5 in. long, ovate acuminate to ovate 

 obtuse. Penduncles 1-1^ in. long, comparatively slender, 

 sometimes slightly bent under weight of fruit. Fruit 2-5 

 in. long, 1^2^- in. diam., prismatic, subconic or subtruncate, 

 irregularly rugose, rarely nearly smooth, in general 2-3 

 lobed at apex, 2-3 deep furrows at base becoming obscure 

 or lost at the middle ; base usually depressed ; flesh firm, 

 about -J in. thick, mild; seeds acrid. Introduced about 

 1890. Plate 23. 



GOLDEN UPRIGHT.! About 1^ ft. high, with few large 

 stout branches. Leaves dark green, few. Fruit yellow, 3-4 

 in. long, 2-3 in. diam., subtruncate, deeply 3-4 lobed, flat or 

 slightly depressed at base, 3-4 shallow sinuses radiating 

 from the calyx, vanishing toward the middle, reappearing 



* New Brazilian Sweet Upright. Thorburn, Cat. 1892. 

 Piper rotundum majus surrectum. Greg, de Reg. in Clus. Cur. Post. 



96-97. /.I. 1611. Raius, Hist. PL 1: 677. 1686. 

 Piper Indicum siliquis surrectis rotundis, diff. 1. maximum obtusum. 



Bauhin. Pinax 103. 1623. 

 Piper Indicum siliquis surrectis & oblongis. diff. 4. siliqua bifurcata. 



Bauhin. Pinax 103. 1623. 

 Capsicum rotundum majus surrectum. Parkinson, Theat. Bot. 256-357. 



/. 3. 1640. 

 Capsicum sive Piper Indicum siliqua bifurcata. Morison, PI. Hist. Oxon. 



8: 530. 1699. 

 Piper Indicum bifurcata siliqua. Hort. Eyst. 1. Autum. Ord. 1: 8. /. 2. 



1713. 

 Piper Indicum maximum rotundum erectum. Hort. Eyst. 1. Autum. 



Ord. 1: 11. f.l. 1713. 

 Capsicum Af ricanum ; f ructu pyramidale rugosissimo plerumque erecto. 



Miller, Gard. Diet. 1731 [no. 5]. 



t Burpee, Cat. 1883. Golden Upright Sw.eet Mango. Senary, Cat. 

 1893-4. Yellov) Nocre. Benary, Cat. 1893-4. 



