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4. ‘The Natural Fiiftory of Jamaica. 
Of Long-Pepper. 
Lthough that which is the Long-Pepper of the Shops is not to be 
found in the We/f-ndies, yet there are many of that Tribe and Fa- 
mily. They have no perfect Flower, or at leaft it is fo little, that ’tis noe 
taken notice of, for there comes out a {mall Fulus, which increafes ’till the 
Fruit comes to its juft dimenfions, which is various, in differing forts of i, 
but all of them are generally longer, and {maller than that of the Shops or 
Eaff. They feem to come neareft the Nettle of any of this Tribe, which 
havea String with Seeds fticking to it round about, fomewhat like thofe of 
this ju/us. All of them which are not herbaceous, have an hollow jointed 
Trunc, at every joint there is a Leaf, and oppofite to it the Fulvs or Fruit, 
which is moftly {weet {melled, Aromatick, and biting. The Leaves are for 
the greateft part nervous, by which marks, they are eafily diftinguifhed from. 
any other Plants. The Fruit, Tail, or Julus, is a String, on which are 
faftened round it many very finall Seeds clofe to one another, as if they were 
united. The others, with thefe, are for Affinities fake added. The 
round black or white Pepper, feems in every thing to be the fame, only ro 
differ in having much larger Acizi, aad of this fort likewile is the Betle 
eat in the Faft-lZudies. 
Faborandi guacu Braf, Mentz.is of this Kinds. 
XVI. Piper longum arboreum altins, folio nervofo minore, [pica graciliori 
breviori. Cat. p. 44. Tab. 87. Fig. 1. Ciriboa Worm. mu. p. 196. quoad defer. 
Mecaxuchitl Ejufd. p. 208. quoad fig. An Planta Fulifera aromatica in uligi« 
nofis crefcens locis. D. Banifter? Long-Pepper of Leigh ap. Purchas, lib. 6, 
cap. 13. p.1254. where ’tis propofed asa Commodity from Guiana? 
This has feveral Stems rifing tsyelve or fifteen Foot high, they are ftraighr, 
green, {mooth, jointed, and at eVery joint they are protuberant, diftant from 
each other fometimes low near the Root, a Foot, hollow, wheftce the name of 
Elder. Upwards the joints are at lef$ diftance from one another. The Stalks 
have a Pith fomewhat like our Elder. Towards the top ftands the Leaves, 
one at a joint, they {land on one tenth part of an Inch long Foot-Stalks, 
are two Inches long, one broad near the round Bafe, where broadeft; whence 
they end in apoint. The Nerves or Fibers, run the lengths of the Leaves 
from the Foot-Stalks end, as from a common Center, and have tranfverfe 
ones, making a pleafant {how in a very dark green, fmooth Leaf The {cent 
of the Leaves, when rubbed, is very Aromatick. Oppofite to the Leaf 
comes a Fulus about one Inch long, flender, and of a yellowith pale colour, 
refembling Long-Pepper. 
_ There isa variety in this, as to the length and fhape of the Leaves, they 
being fometimes longer, and not fo broad at Bafe. 
Pifo’s Figure is good. 
It grows in Famaica near Colonel Cope’s Plantation, on a Hill above his 
Houle, and in Barbades. 
The Leaves and Fruit of this is thought good againft the Belly-ach, being 
boiled and eaten in their Pepper Pots or Pottages. 7 
The Leaves and Root (the Fruit being not much ufed, becaufe of fo many 
other forts of Pepper) are very hot, and efteemed extraordinary good, 
when dryed, to make all forts of corroborating and ftrengthning Baths, 
againft all manner of cold Diftempers, in lieu of all other hot and ftrength- 
ning Herbs. Pifo = 
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