362 SPICES 



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larger species C. frutescens, and indeed the most pungent 

 of any, except the small round-fruited C. baccatum, L. 



2. C. annuum, L., is a larger plant, with larger 

 leaves, and flowers over J in. across the corolla, lobes 

 shorter and broader, and the pod conoid, oblong-inflated, 

 narrowed to the point or blunt, very much larger, and 

 about 3 in. long. The seeds also are larger. 



This is the plant to which the name capsicum or 

 pod pepper is usually applied. 



There is a very considerable number of cultivated 

 varieties of it, some of which have received scientific as 

 well as popular names. 



C. longum, Dec., and C. frutescens, L. (in part, the 

 C. frutescens, L. , of the Species plantarum is said to be 

 C. minimum) do not seem to be specifically distinct. 



Other cultivated forms are long red capsicum, with 

 fruit of an elongate conical shape, 4 or 5 in. long, about 



1 in. through at the base, bright red, and rather hot ; 

 Long cayenne, pods more slender, curved at the tip, 

 more cylindric, about 3 in. long, red, pendent ; Long 

 yellow, pods conical, cylindric, very hot, yellow. 



Purple Capsicum. Stems, leaves, and flowers 

 tinted with purple, pods very variable, erect or pendent, 



2 or 3 in. long, blackish violet, or nearly black. Doubt- 

 less the Capsicum purpureum, Eoxb., described by 

 Roxburgh as received at Calcutta from the Moluccas. 

 The fruit is very hot. 



Erect Chili, with slender erect pods 2 in. long, and 

 hardly f in. through, bright scarlet, and very numerous. 

 A dwarf plant much grown in Europe. 



3. C. grossum. The bull -nose capsicum or bell 

 pepper. A short thick plant with large flowers, and 

 large thick blunt pods, usually red, and hardly or not at 

 all hot to the taste, with few seeds. Some forms. are 



3 in. through, and 6 in. long. They are variable in 

 shape sometimes almost globose, some forms oblong, 

 blunt, and truncate. This is cultivated largely in Spain 

 and southern France, and chiefly used as a vegetable. 

 There are a number of garden forms, large bell, cherry 



