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TWO workers on the peppers (Capsicum), Smith and Heiser1, have recently discovered that among the peppers of Central and South America a new species of pepper, Capsicum sinense Jacq. had been present within the species C. frutescens L. This new species, which could not at first be detected when C. frutescens was itself separated from C. annuum L., is now recognizable by the 3–5 flowers at each node, the declinate pedicels, and the circular constriction at the base of the calyx in fruit, quite apart from the sterility barrier between it and the four other species of pepper in Central and South America, namely, C. pubescens R. and P., C. annuum L., C. pendulum Willd., and C. frutescens L.
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WILSON, J. A Third Species of ‘Pepper’ in West Africa. Nature 183, 1142 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831142b0
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