PIPERALS. 132 PEPPERWORTS. 
Habitat. East Indies. 
Quality and Uses. Like the last, but more pungent. 
* Cuavica. Miquel. 
Woody. Spikes solitary, opposite the leaves. Flowers sessile, diccious. 
Fruit sessile. Bracts stalked, quadrangular, peltate. Style 0. 
1. C, Roxburghii Miquel.—(Common Lone Peppsr.) Fig. 192. 
Rather hairy ; lower leaves roundish ovate, 7-nerved; female spikes cyli 
drical, about as long as their stalk. 
Habitat. Bengal. 
Quality and Uses. Yields the common 
Long Pepper of the shops ; see 
C. officinarum, 
2. C. offcinarum Miquel. Piper 
longum Linneeus. — (Java 
Lone Perrer.) Fig. 193. 
Smooth ; lower leaves ovate-cor- 
date, 3-5 nerved; female 
spikes cylindrical, short, 
rather narrowed at the point. 
Habitat. Indian Archipelago. 
Quality and Uses, Same as Piper 
nigrum ; said to be more acti 
3. C. Betle Miquel. £7 
Betle Linneous. — (BE 
PEPPER.) ; 
Leaves smooth, the lower 
broadly cordate, acuminate, 
7-9-nerved; female sp! 
4 short, reflexed, on 
194 stalks. 
_ Habitat. All over the East Indies. ea 
_ Quality and Uses. The leaf wrapped round the Areca, witha little quicklime, is 
by Oriental nations as a stimulating narcotic and astringent: but it is w 
what its precise quality is, 
mee nt Cusrpa, Miquel. . 
Woody. Spikes solitary, opposite the leaves. Flowers dicious. 
stalked. Bracts sessile. 
1. C, officinalis Miquel. Piper Cubeba Linnzeus.—(CuBEBs.) 
rabies o. smooth, rather large ; fruit globose, shorter than t i 
stalks, : 
z a aera aneenremr a e IE TES  Sasee 
Fig. 194,—Cubeba canina. 
