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Siliquastrum rotundum angustifolium. Bassaeus, Eicones 859. /. 1690. 



Tabern. Kreuterbuch i: 630. /. 1691; Volkom. Kreuterbuch 2: 659. 



/. 1613. 

 Capsicum, Piper Indicum brevioribus siliquis. Lobel. Icoues Stirp. 817. 



1691. 

 Capsicum Brasilianum. Garcias ab Horto, Aromatum 888. 1693. Clus. 



Exot. 340. /. 1605. Pancovius. Herb. /. 297. 1673. 

 Capsicum minimis eiliquis. Gerarde, Herball 292. /. 2. 1697; 364. /. 



3. 1636. Dodon. Hist. Stirp. Antv. 705. 1583; 717. 1616. 

 Piper Brasilianum. Greg. de. Reg. in Clus. Cur. Post. 104. 1611. 

 Capsicum minus Brasilianum. Parkinson, Theat. Bot. 856-857. /. 1640. 

 Quiya apua. Marcg. in Piso, De Med. Bras. 39. 1648. 

 Piper siliquosum magnitudinis baccarum Asparagi. Bauhin, Hist. PL 2: 



944. /. 1651. 

 Capsicum Brasilianum fructu rotundo. Munting, Waare Oeffen. PI. 



841. 1682. 

 Capsicum minus fructu rotundo, erecto, parvo, acerrimo. Sloane, Cat. 



PI. Jam. 111. 1696. 

 Capsicum sive Piper Brasilianum fructu erecto e rotundo oblongo 



minimo. Morison, Hist. PL Oxon. 3: 580. 1699. 



Capsicum minus rubrum. Humph. Herb.Amboin. 5 : 248. t. 88. f. 2. 1747. 

 Capsicum; fructu parvo, rotundo, acerrimo. Miller, Gard. Diet. 1731 



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Plants 1-3 ft. high, under cultivation often 6 ft. 

 Branches numerous, slender, fastigiate, flexuose, usually 

 quite densely purple striate, scabrous, pubescent. Leaves 

 ovate acuminate, rather abruptly narrowing into the 

 petioles, solitary or in twos, more or less pubescent along 

 the veins and sometimes on the surface. Petioles short, 

 usually hairy, broadened at base. Peduncles solitary or in 

 twos, extra axillary, vertical (giving a peculiar character 

 to the plant), slender, 1-1^ in. long, smooth or on young 

 specimens subhairy. Calyx short, cyathiform, subhairy, 

 subciliate. Corolla small, spreading about -J- in., greenish 

 white. Fruit ovate or subround, about -J- in. diam. Un- 

 ripe fruit sometimes changing from green to blackish 

 spotted, finally ripening into a red or yellow. 



