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at the nodes, green, or sometimes purplish striate, slightly 

 purple at the nodes. Leaves broadly ovate acuminate, 3-6 

 in. long, 2-3^- in. wide, usually puffed or wrinkled, more 

 or less pubescent especially along the veins. Petioles 

 medium, usually subciliate. Peduncles slender, 1-2 in. 

 long, often in pairs, usually longer than the fruit. Calyx 

 usually cup-shaped embracing base of the fruit, teeth 

 short. Corolla white or greenish-white, spreading f J 

 in., often with ocherous markings in the throat. Fruit red, 

 ovate, obtuse, or oblong acuminate, ^-1^- in. long, -J-^- in. 

 diam. 



As the fruit of this species does not ripen freely except 

 in tropical and subtropical latitudes it is not grown com- 

 mercially in the north. However a number of cultivated 

 varieties from Mexico and Brazil,* which evidently belong to 

 this species, have been grown by Dr. Sturtevant at Geneva, 

 New York, and by the writer at the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden. By starting them early in the season with the aid 

 of artificial heat most of the varieties produced some ripe 

 fruit. The plants however did not attain the size and vigor 

 which they reach in their native habitat. The fruit is 

 often called " bird pepper." 



a a Fruit ovate or subround, usually seated on the calyx. 

 C. frutescens baccatum (L.).f 



Capsicum baccatum Linn. Mant. 47. 1767. Aiton, Hort. Kew. 1: 

 253. 1789. Linn. Syst. 226. 1784 [ed. 14 Murray]. Loureiro, Fl. 

 Cochin 1 : 127. 1790; 1 : 157. 1793 [ed. Willd.]. Lam. Enc. Meth. 



* The following varieties sent from Mexico by Dr. Palmer are referred 

 to this species: Chili de arvol, Chili pico de pijaro, Chili Piquin, Chili 

 Unque, and Mirasol, together with the following sent from Brazil by 

 Prof. O. A. Derby: Pimentas cemerim grandc, Pimentas dido de dama, 

 Pimentas Malagueti, and Pimentas pitanga. 



| Supposed wild specimens examined from Bolivia (Bang, no. 1126, 

 1891); Paraguay (Morong, no. 961, 1888-90); Mexico (Pringle, 1888) ; 

 Texas (Pammel, 1888 ; Trelease, 1897). 



The following varieties sent from Brazil by Prof. Derby are referred 

 to this group: Pimentas Mariana, and Pimentas Cumary, together with 

 one from Mexico by Dr. Palmer, Chiltepin. 



