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4. The fruit versicolored : 
Mala aurea odore foetido quibusdam lycopersicon (versicolor). J. B., 
1650, 3, 620. Mala aurea (versicolor). Chab., 1677, 425, ic. 
5. Stems variegated. 
Amoris pomum II. Blackw., 1750, t. 133. 
Dunal, the authority on this subject, gives the habitat as the warmer por- 
tions of America, but^doubtfully. The species is recorded as growing wild 
in Cochin China by Loureiro, at the Cape of Good Hope by Thunberg, at the 
Mauritius by Bojer, and in Central Africa by Grant. It is an American 
plant and was grown in tropical America in improved varieties at the time 
of the discovery, for many of the earlier figures in our references exhibit 
fruit of a form as highly improved as those existing under present culture. 
For the history of its use in America, see the American Naturalist for 
July, 1885. 
The principal characters are the depressed fruit; these fruits, always 
more or less angular, may be quite even or ribbed on the same plant. 
There has been little improvement in form gained within recent times, as 
the figures in our references quite clearly indicate. That we have gained in 
flavor, prolificacy and earliness may be claimed, as such claims are difficult 
to disprove, and represent changes very probably within our power. 
Sub-var. grandifolium. Leaves very large, 1-pinnate ; leaflets few, and 
entire. The leaves of very young plants entire. 
Tomate macrophyllum. Damman & Co. cat., 1884, fig. 
Lycopersicum esculentum, var. grandifolium. Bailey, am. nat., June 
1887, 576. 
Potato Leaf, N. Y. Sta., 1886. 
Mikado, N. Y. Sta., 1886. 
This section represents plants which have but recently appeared under 
cultivation. Keyes' Early Prolific, grown by us in 1883, is the first of this 
class we had seen. In character of fruit, allied to our var. b, but the leaf 
habit very distinct, and suggesting specific differences. 
Sub-var. validum. Erect ; stem very thick and stout ; leaves dark green, 
short, dense ; leaflets wrinkled and recurved. 
Tomate a tige raide de Laye. Vil. les pi. pot., 1883, 557, fig. 558. 
Station. N. Y. Agr. Exp. Sta. Kept, 1886, 172, fig. p. 173. 
Lycopersicum esculentum, var. validum. Bailey, Am. nat. 1. c. 
Var. c. Oblongum. Fruit oblong, or longer through the axis than through 
the diameter, frequently pear-shaped, fig-shaped, or plum-shaped; 
2-celled ; color red or yellow. 
Solanum pomiferum. Pers. syn., 1805, 1, 226 — Poir. supl., 1813, 3, 759. 
Lycopersicum pyriforme. Dun. sol., 1813, 112 — Don. gard. diet, 1838, 
4, 443. 
Pear-shaped. Hort. trans., 1819, 3, 347. 
This form is not recorded as wild, but is noted by Dunal and others as 
cultivated in botanic gardens. Ked and yellow varieties were in American 
gardens preceding 1848. 
