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SYNOPSIS. 



A Herbaceous or suffrutescent, annual or biennial. 

 C. ANNUUM L. 



Capsicum annuum Linn. Hort. Cliff. 59. 1737. 



Herbaceous or suffrutescent plants usually growing two 

 or three feet high, sometimes four or five, rarely only a 

 foot, with numerous erect angular branches usually rising 

 from near the ground, generally smooth, sometimes 

 sparsely pubescent. Leaves medium small to very large, 

 ovate acuminate to oblong elliptical; petioles smooth or 

 sparingly hairy. Peduncles solitary, sometimes in twos, 

 usually smooth. Corolla white or dingy white, except in 

 one variety when it is more or less blotched with purple. 

 Fruits variable in size, color and form. 



This species furnishes all the leading commercial varieties 

 now in cultivation. In temperate latitudes they are treated 

 as annuals, while in tropical countries some varieties are 

 biennial or perennial. 



a Fruit oblong linear. 



* Calyx usually embracing base of fruit. 



*- Fruit usually less than 1 in. long; peduncles about as long or longer. 



C. annuum conoides (Miller). 



Capsicum conoides Miller, Gard. Diet. 1771 [no. 8. ed. 6]. Linn. Syst. 



4: 662. 1819 [ed. Rom. et Schult.]. Fingerh. Monogr. Gen. Cap- 



Bici 14. t. 3. f. b. 1832. Don, Hist. Dich. PI. 4 : 446. 1838. Rich. 



Fl. Abyss. 2 : 96. 1851. Dunal in DC. Prodr. 13 1 : 414. 1852. See- 



mann, Bot. Herald 402. 1852-57. Miquel, Fl. Ned. Ind. 2 : 659. 1856. 

 Capsicum conoides sulcatum Fingerh. Monogr. 15. t. 3. f. c. 1832. Dunal 



in DC. Prodr. 13 1 : 415. 1852. 



Capsicum conoides chordale Fingerh. 1. c./. d. Dunal, 1. c. 

 Capsicum conoides oblong o-conicum Dunal, 1. c. 

 Piper oblongum, exiguum erectum pyramidale. Greg, de Reg. in Clus. 



Cur. Post. 97, /. 4, 98. 1611. Jonstonus, Dendrog. t. 56. 1662. 



Raius, Hist. PI. 1 : 677. 1686. 

 Piper Indicum siliquis surrectis & oblongis diff. 3. majus et minus (excl. 



majus). Bauhin. Pinax 103. 1623. 

 Capsicum exiguum erectum pyramidale. Parkinson, Theat. Bot. 367. /. 



6. 1640. 



