Order I. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 161 
^ 6. Prickly. Leaves sinuate, angular and lobed. 
2565 Stem prickly, Leaves ovate subsinuate downy prickly, Flowers many-parted. Seeds naked 
2566 Stem prickly, Leaves ovate tomentose, Pedunc. pendulous thick, Cal. prickly 
2567 Stem nearly unarmed. Leaves rvate subrepand tomentose unarmed. Berries ovate oblong. Seeds pulpy 
2568 Stem diffuse. Prickles straight dilated at base, Lvs. obi. sinuate pinnatifid, Pedunc. 2-fid, Berries globose 
2569 Stem prickly. Leaves oblong tomentose sinuate angular, Segm. sinuate toothed. Sepals reflexed 
2570 Leaves ovate oblong sinuate repand downy white beneath, middle nerve beneath with smooth prickles 
2571 Leaves subcordate sinuate lobed beneath hoary above white at edges. Berries 3-celled globose 
2572 Stem very prickly hairy, Lvs. cord. obi. lob. Lobes tooth. Fertile cal. very prickly. Berries cher.-shaped 
2573 Stem very prickly, Lvs. cordate lob. Lobes acute toothed villous and prickly on both sides, Berries round 
2574 Stem vil. with scat, prickl. Lvs. subcord. lob. prickly on both sides very vil. Ber. like the teat of an animal 
2575 Stem prickly, Lvs. cordate sinuate acutely lob. vil. and prickly on both sides, Pedunc. and cal. unarmed 
2576 Stem prickly, Lvs. cord, angular toment. with the racemes and calyxes prickly, Ber. hairy cov. by calyx 
2577 Stem prickly. Leaves smoothish lobed obtuse prickly. Peduncles in pairs 
2578 Sf^m prickly, Leaves 3-lobed obtuse smooth. Flowers racemose violet 
2579 Stem prickly. Leaves ovate oblong tomentose sinuate angular acuminate. Racemes simple ax 
2780 Stem prickly. Leaves oblong acute sinuate pinnatifid downy. Prickles straight scarlet 
2581 Stem erect prickly, Lvs. pinnat. sinuated prickly on both sides, Segm. sinuated obtuse. Racemes prickly 
2582 Stem decumbent diffuse prickly, Leaves sinuate pinnatifid prickly on both sides smooth. Calyxes prickly 
§ 7. Prickly. Leaves pinnatifid or bipinnatifid. Berries covered by the enlarged and prickly calyx. 
2583 Stem villous prickly, Lvs. pinnatifid, Segm. acute sinuate toothed. Racemes cymose lateral and terminal 
2584 Stem shrubby rounded prickly. Leaves bipinnatifid prickly on both sides villous 
2585 Leaves cordate entire. Racemes divided, Cal. unarmed 
2586 Leaves elliptical sinuate tomentose. Flowers several large terminal 
2587 Stem and leaves prickly. Leaves ovate pinnatifid hairy on both sides 
2588 Stem woody prickly hairy. Leaves deeply pinnatifid. Anthers small 
2589 Fruit oblong pendulous and erect their stalks smooth. Stem herbaceous 
2590 Fruit globose pendulous. Stalks smooth. Stem shrubby 
2591 Fruit globose ovate erect in pairs. Stalks smooth, Stem shrubby 
2592 Fruit ovate pendulous in pairs. Stalks pubescent. Stem shrubby 
2593 Fruit oblong ovate subcompressed erect. Stalks smooth, Stem herbaceous 
25&t Fruit oblong obtuse. Stalks smooth. Stem erect 
2595 Fruit oblong mucronate. Stalks smooth. Stem shrubby 
2596 Fruit globose. Stalks smooth. Stem shrubby 
2597 Fruit oblong. Stalks pubescent. Stem shrubby 
2598 Fruit oblong acuminate incurved. Stalks smooth. Stem herbaceous 
2590 Fruit heart-shaped. Stem herbaceous 
2600 Fruit very large angular obtuse. Stem herbaceous 
2601 Fruit heart-shaped angular. Stem herbaceous 
2602 Fruit ovate conical erect. Stem half shrubby 
2603 Leaves linear lanceolate. Fruit pyramidal erect yellow, Stem shrubby 
2604 Fruit ovate erect. Footstalks and leaves pubescent, Teeth of the calyx 5 subulate spreading 
2605 Young stalks ciliated. Berries erect globose 
2606 Leaves ovate acuminate, Stalks ciliated, CaL obtuse 
2586 f\ Jf ^ 2595 ""^^\ a i) ^592 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
ripe, dried in the sun, pounded and mixed with salt: it is then kept stopt in bottles, and is commonly known 
by the name of Cayenne-pepper. A mixture of sliced cucumbers, shallots or onions cut very small, a little lime 
juice and Madeira wine, with a few pods of bird pepper, well mashed and mixed with the liquor, seldom fails 
to provoke the most languid appetite in the West Indies. It is there called Man-dram Gathered fresh from 
the plant, the pods of all the species are liberally used both in the East and "West Indies, to assist digestion and 
correct flatulencies. 
C. frutescens and minimum, the latter by many considered only a variety of the former, low shrubs with 
an oval red berry more sharp and biting than any of the others, furnish the Cayenne pepper of the shops. 
The ripe pods are dried in the sun, and then in an oven after bread is baked, in an earthen or stone pot, with 
flour between the strata of pods. When quite dry they are cleaned from the flour, and beaten or ground to 
fine powder. To every ounce of this, a pound of wheat flour is added, and it is made into small cakes with 
leaven ; these are baked, cut into small pieces, baked again that they may be as dry and hard as biscuit, and 
then are beaten into powder and sifted. It is then fit for use as a pepper, or for being packed up, in a com- 
pressed stale, and so as to exclude air, for exportation. 
_ C. annuum, Piment, Fr., Spanischer Pfeffe'r, Ger., Peberone, Ital., is cultivated for its fruit, which is used 
uj a green state for pickling, and ripe for mixing with other ingredients, as Tomatos, &c. to form sauces. 
fV '^"^^ ^"'^ ground, and used like Cayenne pepper. The seed is sown in the end of March or beginning 
^ moderate hot-bed, and covered a quarter of an inch. When the plants are two or three inches in 
^°*th. some are transplanted into a new slight hot-bed to forward them for final planting ; or in default or 
^^^"^ hot-bed, they are placed in a bed of light rich earth, from twelve to eighteen inches apart, where they 
are hnally to remain in the end of May, and protected during night by mats. They will flower in July, and 
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