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the leaves but slightly darker on the upper surface than 

 below. The larger growing plants are stouter and more 

 branchy. Fruit usually slender, fusiform, smooth, ex- 

 tremely pungent, red, sometimes blotched with brown 

 before ripening, usually scattered so thickly over the 

 plant as to give the appearance of a bouquet of corals. 

 Plate 9, f . 2. 



TABASCO.* Plant usually about 2^ ft. high, with an 

 erect spreading habit. Leaves often 4 in. long by 2^- in. 

 wide, dark green, usually distinctly pubescent along the 

 veins. Fruit oblong cylindrical, obtuse or acute, usually 

 compressed at the base by the calyx, deep red when ripe, 

 the unripe ones often drying to an orange color, more fre- 

 quently borne in twos than in other varieties of this group. 



CAYENNE. f Plant more woody than others. Branches 

 fewer but more erect, and quite rigid. Leaves deep green 

 on upper surface, decidedly paler below. Calyx occasionally 

 seated on base of fruit. Fruit usually as long as or slightly 

 longer than the penduncles, subconical or ovate, obtuse, 

 about 1 in. long, -J- in. diam., at first green, changing to 

 blackish, then yellowish-red, finally red. 



ORANGE-RED CLUSTER. J Plants usually with a flattish 

 top. Branches slender but rigid, purple striate, and de- 

 cidedly purple at nodes. Leaves smooth, quite erect, very 

 dark green on upper surface, much paler below. Fruit 

 1-1-J- in. long, about as long as or longer than peduncles, 

 very rigidly erect, standing prominently above the leaves, 

 of a beautiful orange-red color. The great number of 

 fruits equally distributed over the symmetrical plant make 

 it one of the most ornamental varieties. Plate 9, f. 3 



* Described from Dr. Sturtevant's notes and herbarium specimens. 

 Seed received by him from Mcllhenny of New Iberia, La., 1888. 



f Hovey, Seed Cat. 1888. Described from Dr. Sturtevant's notes 

 and herbarium specimens. Seed received by him from Livingston, 

 Columbus, O., 1888, who listed it as Cayenne of Commerce, in contrast 

 with the Long Cayenne. 



J Listed in Haage & Schmidt, Seed Cat. 15, 1893, under the German 

 name Orangerother Trauben-Pfeffer. 



