138 sturtevant's notes on edible plants 



This history of the botany of the groups can best be seen by the synonymy, which 

 is founded upon figures given with the descriptions. 



I. 



The Calyx Embracing The Fruit. 



(a) Fruits pendulous. 



This form seems to have been the first introduced and presents fruits of extreme 

 pungency and is undoubtedly that described as brought to Evu-ope by Coliunbus. It 

 presents varieties with straight and recurved fruit and the fruit when ripe is often much 

 contorted and wrinkled. 



Capsicum longum. DC. from Fingerhuth. 



Siliquastrum terttum. Langer Indianischer pfefler. Fuch. 733. 1542. 



Siliquastrum minus. Fuch. 1. c. 732. 



Indianischer pfeffer. Saliquastrum. Roeszl. 214. 1550. 



Indianischer pfeffer. Trag. 928. 1552. 



Piper indicum. Cam. 07. 347. 1586. 



Capsicum oblongius Dodonaei. Dalechamp 632. 1587. 



Piper indicum minus recurvis siliquis. Hort. Eyst. 1613,1713. 



Piper iffdicum maximum longum. Hort. Eyst. 1613,1713. 



Capsicum recurvis siliquis. Dod. 716. 161 6. 



Piper Calecuticum, sive Capsicum oblongius. Bauh. J. 2:943. 1650. 



Siliquastrum, Ind. pfeffer. Pancov. n. 296. 1673. 



Piper Capsicum. Chabr. 297. 1677. 



Piment de Cayenne. Vilm. 151. 1885. 



Long Red Cayenne. Ferry. 



Mexican Indian, four varieties, one of the exact variety of Fuch. 1542. 



Siliquastrum ma jus. Fuch. 732. 1542. 



Long Yellow Cayenne. Hend. 



Capsicum longum luteum. Fingerhuth. 



(b) Fruits erect. 



Capsicum annuum acuminatum. Fingerhuth. 



Piper ind. minimum erectum. Hort. Eyst. 1613,1713. 



Piper ind. medium longum erectum. Hort. Eyst. 1613,1713. 



Piper longum minus siliquis recurvis. Jonston Dendrog. 56. 1662. 



Pigment du Chili. Vilm. 410. 1883. 



Chili pepper. Vilm. 151. 1885. 



Red Cluster. Vilm. 



Yellow Chili. Hend. 



II. 

 Calyx Pateriform, not Covering the Flattened Base of the Fruit. 



(a) Fruits long, tapering, pendent. 

 Piper indicum sive siliquastrum. Pin. 12. 1561. 

 Capsicum actuarii. Lob. O65. 172, 1576; /cow. 1:316. 1591. 

 Capsicum majus. Dalechamp 632. 1587. 

 Capsicum longioribus siliquis. Ger. 292. 1597. 

 Piper indicum. Matth. Op. 434. 1598. 

 Capsicum oblongiqribus siliquis. Dod. 716. 1616. 

 Pepe d'India. Dtu". C. 344. 1617. 



