1885.] Kitchen Garden Esculents of American Origin. 547 
1700.1 The name is the same as used by Long for one of his 
Jamaica varieties, and is perhaps one of the sorts described by 
Ligon, 1647-53, as occurring in Barbadoes, “ shaped like a large 
button of a coat.” The fruit is described by Miller as variable, 
some being bell-shaped, and Tournefort’s name would imply a 
heart-shaped fruit. 
C. baccatum L,—Bird pepper, eaa to Miller, and synony- 
mous with C. frutescens var. L., C. fructu minimo conico rubro 
Brown, etc., and described among Jamaica plants by Sloane and 
Brown, in Amboina by Rumphius (1750), and as C. drazilianum 
Clusius (1601). It differs little from C. frutescens, and the berries 
are very pungent. Bird pepper is mentioned by name by Long 
in Jamaica, and by Wafer for the Isthmus ; is perhaps the pepper 
“as large as haws” described in Brazil by Hans Stade. It has 
been in England since 1731,? and a “ dird or West Indian” was in 
American gardens preceding 1828. It is mentioned as well 
known in India by Firminger and Drury, but I do not identify it 
with any of the present varieties of our seed catalogues. From 
an uncertain authority? it is said to grow wild from Southern 
Texas to Arizona, but it is not catalogued in the report on the 
plants of the “United States and Mexican Boundary Survey,” 
1858, unless it be synonymous with C. microphyllum Dun. 
C. cerasiforme Mill.—Cherry pepper, also described by Tourne- 
fort, 1700, It was sent from the West Indies. It is probably one 
of the sorts described for Peru by Garcilasso de la Vega under 
the name chinchi uchu. It is also among the names listed by 
Long for Jamaica, and was in American gardens in 1806 or 
before. It is a variety of C. annuum, and the fruit is quite varia- 
ble in form and color, some sorts being yellow. The form figured 
in Hortus Eystellensis, 1613, is precisely the cherry pepper of 
our gardens, 
C. conoides Mill—Came to Miller from Antigua cites the 
name of hen pepper. This isa name which appears in Long’s 
list of Jamaica sorts. The description of the fruit would answer 
to that of the oxheart of some of our seed catalogues. 
C. cordiforme Mill., or heart-shaped Guinea pepper, was also 
described by Tournefort, 1700.4 It has several varieties, the 
1 Miller’s Dict. 
? Booth, Treas. of Bot. 
"Vicks ae 1879, 184. 
t Miller’s Dic 
