Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 337 



Var. acuminata, Fingerhuth. Fruit much longer than broad, 

 slender, rarely straight, always tapering to an acute or sub-acute 

 apex ; flesh thin, keenly pungent ; berry enclosed at the base by the 

 cupular calyx ; colour red or orange, or yellow. C. loncjmn, DC. Hort. 

 Monsp. 86 ; Fingerhuth, Caps. 33, t. 6, 7 ; Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 

 424. C. frutescens, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 17; Flor. Ind. I. 574; Bl. 

 Bijdr. 704 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 239. 



Cultivated in most of the provinces. 



Some of the forms of this variety seem to have been evolved since the introduction 

 of Cajmcum a)iniiuin to the Eastern Hemisphere. 



Vae. ahhreviata, Fingerhuth. Fruit conoid, ovate or -oblong, not 

 much longer than broad, apex usually blunt ; flesh thin, pungent ; 

 berry resting on the saucer-shaped fruiting calyx ; colour variable. 

 C. annuum, Eoxb. Flor. Ind. I. 573. G. frutescens, Dun. in DC. 

 Prod. I. 413. Capo Molago, Eheede Hort. Malab. II. 109, t. 56. 



Occasionally cultivated. 



Var. grossa, Sendt. Fruit swollen, somewhat angular, prismatic or 

 quadrate or oblate, obtuse, hardly longer than broad ; flesh thick, 

 hardly pungent ; berry resting on the saucer-shaped fruiting calyx 

 colour red. C. grossum, Linn. Mant. 47; Willd. Sp. PI. I. 1051 

 Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 17; Flor. Ind. I. 574; Fingerhuth, Caps. 21 

 Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 422 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 659 ; Clarke 

 in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 239. 



Occasionally cultivated. 



Vae. cerasiformis. Mill. Fruit globular, red, flesh thin, very pungent. 

 C. cerasiforme, Eoxb. Flor. Ind. I. 574. C. grossum, var. cerasiformis, 

 Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 239. 



Sometimes grown in gardens by European residents. 



Vae. nigra. Fruit much longer than broad; flesh thin, only slightly 

 pungent ; calyx hardly enclosing base of fruit ; berry at first dark 

 purple, at length becoming orange-red. C. purpureicm, Eoxb. Flor. 

 Ind. IV. 239. 



Occasionally cultivated. 



2. Capsicum feutescens, Linn. Sp. PI. 189. An erect, much-branch- 

 ing undershrub, 2 to 4 feet high, branches angled, the smaller ones 

 puberulous but soon, like the leaves, becoming quite glabrous. Leaves 

 petioled, membranous, ovate-acute, the base short-cuneate, truncate or 

 rarely sub-cordate, the margins entire ; lamina usually 2-5 to 4 in. long, 

 1*5 in. wide, green on both surfaces ; petiole '5 to -75 in. long. Floiuers 

 small, white or yellowish-white ; pedicels usually 2 to 3, sometimes 

 4 or more together in leaf-axils, never all of the same age, drooping in 



