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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. longum, DC. Hort. 
Monsp. 86 ; Fingerhuth, Caps. 23, t. 6, 7 ; Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 
424. C. frutescens, Roxb. 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 Capsicum annuurn to the Eastern Hemisphere. 
Var. abbreviata, 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, Boxb. Flor. Ind. I. 573. C. frutescens, Dun. in DC. 
Prod. I. 413. Capo Molago, Rheede 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. PL I. 1051 ; 
Roxb. 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. 
Var. cerasiformis, Mill. Fruit globular, red, flesh thin, very pungent. 
C. cerasiforme, Roxb. Flor. Ind. I. 574. C. grossum, var. cerasiformis, 
Clarke in Plook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 239. 
Sometimes grown in gardens by European residents. 
Var .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. purpureum, Roxb. Flor. 
Ind. IV. 239. 
Occasionally cultivated. 
2. Capsicum frutescens, 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-euneate, 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. Flowers 
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 
