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+- -H- Not changing from green to light yellow, 

 n- Usually more or less turbinate. 



RED WRINKLED.* Plants 1-2 ft. high, often spreading 

 23 ft. Branches often purple striate. Leaves 2-3^ in. 

 long, 1^2 in. wide; petioles 1 1-J- in. long. Peduncles 

 curved, usually -J1 in. long, slender, slightly enlarged 

 toward calyx end. Corolla greenish white, spreading -J-^ 

 in. Fruit very rugose, about 1 in. long, f-|- in. diam., 

 pendent or nodding, usually turbinate, with projecting 

 nipples, bright red when ripe. Plate 27, f. 3. 



YELLOW WRINKLED.! Identical with the preceding 

 except that the fruit is of a bright yellow color. 



- -M. Not usually turbinate. 



PRINCESS or WALES 4 Plants 1-1^ ft. high, quite erect, 

 branches numerous, slender, stiff, puberulent, scarcely 

 more hairy at the nodes, leaves often puffed or wrinkled, 

 2-3^- in. long, 1-J 2 in. wide, pubescent on veins below, 

 ciliate ; petioles medium short. Peduncles usually curved, 

 slender, smooth. Corolla greenish white, usually spread- 

 ing about J- in. Fruit conical to ovate- elliptical, 1-lf in. 

 long, ^-1 in. diam., more or less sulcate, rarely turbinate, 

 at first dark green, becoming blotched with purple, finally 



* Thorburn' s Fancy Red Wrinkled. Thorburn, Cat. 1892 German, 

 Runtliger rother Pfeffer. 



Capaicum umbilicatum Veil. Fl. Flum. Repr. in Rio de Jan. Arch. Mus. 

 Nac. 5: 60. 1881. Dunal in DC. Prodr. 13 1 : 428. 1852. Sturt. 

 Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 16: 108. 1888. 



t Thorburn, Cat. 1892. German, Runeliger gelber Pfeffer. 

 % Williams, Cat. 1878. 



Capsicum luteum Lam. Enc. Meth. 2: 26. 1793 [no. 2392]. Poiret, 

 Enc. Meth. 6: 327. 1804. Linn. Syst. 4: 462. 1819 [ed. Rom. et 

 Schult.]. Fingerh. Monogr. 26. t. 8.f. c. 1832. Don, Hist. Dich. 

 PI. : 445. 1838. Dunal in DC. Prodr. IS 1 : 425. 1862. 



Piper siliquaflava. Greg, de Reg. in Clus. Cur. Post. 102. /. 12. 1611. 

 Raius, Hist. PL 1 : 678. 1686. 



Solarium mordens seu Capsicum fructu flavescente. Weinmann. 349. t. 

 930. f. a. 1745. 



