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-H- Fruit usually more than 1& in. long; peduncles shorter. 

 w Leaves and fruit fascicled ; fruit erect. 



C. amiuum fasciculatuni (Sturt.). 



Capsicum fasciculatum Sturtevant, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 15: 133. 



1888. 



" Stems smooth, green, round, subverrucose, swollen at 

 the branchings and purple, dichotomous or triehotomous. 

 Branches angular, few, erect- spreading, green, purple at 

 insertion of petioles, subpubescent, bearing the leaves for 

 the most part clustered or bunched at the swollen summits. 

 Leaves spreading, crowded into bunches, nearly of one 

 size, the larger ones 3J in. by 1 in., usually 3 in. by f in., 

 elliptical-lanceolate, pointed at both ends, from the base 

 extending equally into the petiole, deep green above, paler 

 below, the middle nerve distinct; slightly scabrous, entire 

 or subrepand ; borne almost entirely in a confused mass 

 along with the berries at the summit of branches, very 

 rarely lower down. Petioles smooth, nearly as long as, or 

 sometimes even longer than the leaves, slender, margined 

 by the extension of the leaf blade. Peduncles smooth, 

 angular, thickish, erect, enlarging towards calyx end, 

 rather long, 1^ in., grouped in clusters rather confusedly 

 with the leaves, but the tendency of the grouping seeming 

 to be in twos or threes, axillary or extra-axillary. Calyx 

 cyathiform, embracing base of fruit, obscurely ten or 

 twelve-nerved (5 or 6 distinct), subpentagonal, subtruncate, 

 five or six-toothed, the teeth acute, erect, smooth. Corolla 

 white, quite large, about % in. in diameter, the divisions 

 very long and narrow, often twisted. Berry cylindro-con- 

 ical, straight or curved, about 3 in. long, by -J- in. diameter, 

 or smaller, usually rugose, sometimes smooth, at first a 

 shining green, then red; two-celled; the placenta thick at 

 the base ; acrid. 



" This species differs principally from Capsicum annuum, 

 Fingerhuth, by the round stem; pubescent and dichotom- 

 ous or triehotomous branchings; freedom from lower 

 leaves ; the leaves clustered at summits ; all of one size and 



