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PIPER LONGUM 
LONG PEPPER 
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T NO- NT MA 
Piper longum. Pbarm. Land. & Edinb. Gerard, 
E 
mac. 
39 
Park. The at. p 
604 
R 
1 
Amb 
343 
vo 
L 5- A 333- '« II6 -/ 
ez 
8 
P/V?. p. 4 
77/C Mant. Aromat.p 
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Exot. 
83 
Piper longum orientale. 
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Piper 
um piftolochia? foliis abfq 
ped 
Tnaderafpatanum. P/#/£. ^//;^ p. 297. /. 104, £ 4, C 
Rheed. Hort. Mai. V. 7. p 
t. 
4 
1 ■ 
Diandr 
E/fl Gen. Ck. Cal 
Ord. Trigynia. Lin. Gen.' Riant. 43 
1 
I 
o. Car. o. Bacca monofperma. 
Sp, Ck 
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P. foliis cordatis petiolatis feflilibufq 
THE root is perennial 
th 
\* 
Hems are lhrubby 
nd. fm 
» 
branched, (lender, and climbing; but do not rife to any confiderabk 
height : the leaves differ much in fize and form ; they are commonly 
heart-fhaped, pointed, entire, fmooth, nerved, of a deep green colour 
nd ft and alternately upon footftalks : the flowers are fmall, and pro 
? 
a 
denfe terminal fpikes, which are nearly cylind 
duced in ihort 
the parts of innorefcence, though lefs diftincT:, correfpond with the 
defcrip 
Indies. 
g 
of the former 
It is a native of the Eaft 
fpecially J 
The b 
or 
g 
Malabar, and Beng 
fmall. 
are 
very 
d lodged in a pulpy 
matter ; like thofe of the black pepper 
ey 
are 
nrft 
g 
en. 
? 
and 
become red when ripe. This fruit is hotteft to the tafte in its imma 
ture ftate, and is therefore gathered while g 
» 
d dried by the 
heat of the fun, when it changes to a blackifh or dark grey colour.* 
It is obferved by Dr. Cullen, that Long pepper has precifely the 
•ee :.* Bergius 
: ; an opinion 
fame qualities with thofe of black, only in a weaker deg 
alfo judges black pepper to be hotter than this fp 
which 
app 
to us unfounded 
the contrary is afferted by 
aliorumque quo- 
Lewis and Murray: the latter fays, " Ad meum alio 
rundam fenfum, in lingua acrius et calidius adhuc eft Piper longum 
1 
ehquis dictis ipeciebi 
iph. I 
Mat. Med. vol it. p. 209 
Apt. Med. vol. S'P- 3 6 - 
BRYONIA 
