92 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



a lemon yellow, usually 4-celled, extremely pungent. An 

 ornamental English variety which originated about 1876 

 and is said to be the result of a cross between Prince of 

 Wales and Yellow Gem, possessing the habit of the former 

 and fruit of the latter. Not very generally catalogued by 

 American seedsmen. 



aaaa Fruit generally smooth, oval, spherical, cherry or heart shaped, 

 |-li in. in diameter; calyx seated on the base. 



C. annuum cerasiforme (Miller). 



Capsicum Olivaeforme Miller, Gard.Dict. 1771 [no. 6. ed. 6]. 

 Capsicum ovatum DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 86. 1813. Poiret, Enc. Meth. 



Suppl. 4: 414. 1816. Linn. Syst. 4: 661. 1819 [ed. Bo'm. et 



Schult.]. Fingerh. Monogr. 28. t. 9.f. b. 1832. Don, Hist. Dich. 



PI. 4: 445. 1838. Dunal in DC. Prodr. IS 1 : 426. 1852. 

 Capsicum oxycarpum Dunal in DC. Prodr. 13 1 : 426. 1852. 

 Piper cum siliqua olivaria. Greg, de Reg. in Clus, Cur. Post. 99-100. /. 6. 



1611 . Jonstonus, Dendrog. t. 58. 1662. Baius, Hist. PL Oxon. 1 : 



677. 1686. 

 Piper Indicum propendentibus siliquis rotundis, diff. 3. eiliqua olivari. 



Bauhin. Pinax 102. 1623. 

 Capsicum siliqua Olivaria propendens. Parkinson, Theat. Bot. 367. /. 10. 



1640. Morison, Hist. PL Oxon. 8: 629. 1640. 



Capsicum siliqua Olivaria erecta. Parkinson, Theat. Bot. 357. 1640. 

 Solanum urens siliqua propendente, etc. M orison, Hist. PL Oxon. Sect. 



13. t. 2. f. 12. 1699. 

 Capsicum sive Piper Indicum perenne siliqua Olivae magnitudine & 



forma. Morison, Hist. PL Oxon. 8: 630. 1699. 

 Capsicum siliqua Olivae forma. Tournef. Inst. 153. 1700. 

 Capsicum; fructu Olivario erecto. Miller, Card. Diet. 1731 [no. 13]. 



Plants suffrutescent, 1-2 ft. high, spreading 2-2-J- ft., 

 with rather dense foliage. Branches numerous, quite uni- 

 formly 4-angled, green or purplish striate, purple and much 

 enlarged at nodes. Leaves ovate or oblong acuminate, 1^ 

 3J- in. long, ^-1^ in. wide, flat, usually slightly wrinkled, 

 margins usually subciliate ; petioles medium slender, -J-l in. 

 long. Peduncles curved or straight on different plants or 

 often on the same plant, f-Jin.long, stout, much enlarged 

 toward calyx end, solitary, sometimes in twos. Calyx 

 somewhat wrinkled, seated on base of fruit. Corolla large, 

 dingy white, spreading f-l^ in. Fruit spherical, subcordate, 



