CVBEBM. 3bo 



they are enumerated with almonds, saffron, raisins, white pe])pcr, grains 

 [of paradise], mace, galangal, and gingerbread, and entered as costing 

 2s. per lb. In 1285 — 28. (5d. to os, per lb.; while in 1307, 1 lb. purcha^^ed 

 ftu- the King's Wardrobe cost ds} 



From the journal of expenses of John, king of France, while in 

 England during 1359-60, it is evident that cubebs were in froqnent 

 use as a spice. Among those who could command such luxuries, they 

 were eaten in powder with meat, or tliey were candied whole. A 

 patent of pontage granted in 1305 by Edward I., to aid in repairing and 

 sustaining the Brid^re of London, and authorizing toll on various artielt..., 

 mentions among groceries and spices, cubebs as liable to nnpost.^ Cubebs 

 occur in the German lists of medicines of Frankfort and Nordlin-'cn, 

 about 1450 and 1480;^ they are also mentioned in the Confedhiicii of 

 Hans Folcz of Nuremberg, dating about 1480.* 



It cannot however be said that cubebs were a common spice, at all 

 comparable with pepper or ginger, or even in such frequent use as grains 

 of paradise or galangal. Garcia de Orta (1503) speaks of them as but 

 seldom used in Europe ; yet they are named by Saladinus as necessary 

 to be kept in every apotheca.^ In a list of drugs to be sold m the 

 apothecaries' shops of the city of Ulm, a.d. 1596, cubebs are mentioned 

 as Fructm carpesiorum vel cuheharum, the price for half an ounce being 

 quoted as 8 kreuzers, the same as that of opium, best manna, and amber, 

 while black and wdiite pepper are priced at 2 kreuzevs.^ 



Although it was always well known that the cubebs were a product 

 of Java and that island is stated to have exported in 1775 as «iuch as 

 10,000 lb. of this spice,^ its mother plant was made known only in 1/Sl 



by the younger Linnaeus. , ,, 



The action of cubebs on the urino-genital organs was known to the 



Yet modern writers on materja medica even at 



Java, by their Hindu servants." ,. . , . _,„ii 



CultivpHnn ..H Pro^nrtinn^«-Cubebs are cultivated m small 



. ^Rogers, in.t. of Agriculture and Prices « In ^^^ .^ '^'^ r f«''^^>T is very 



f« i^nrjland, i. 627 8, ii. 544. -To get some ton/, ed. 2. 1J}«, v J^ ^^ ^^ 



•clea erf the relative value of conmioclities briefly .^I'^^^^^f ' ^ \\^'e icSiuI properties. 



then and now, multiply the ancient prices VO^!f'''^g » J^ Pf 'f ^he same Ark (1811) 



y ^' -■■" v-k**v •i.x^A QpG also Mur- 



^; Liber nkjer Scaccarii, Lend. 1771, i. ^^ V\'^'t^f^^^ ^ 



•478.— A frnnclnf^^n ^ol i.n fn^.^rl in the rav's Sj/-^f^rn of Mat. 



-A translation may Lc found in the ray 



Chronicles of London Bridrje, 1S27, 155. ^^f SvS^r;/ of the Mian hhnds, 1856. 



/Richard, Beitrcige zur Geschichte der ^! ^\u if hp-Ji to our friends Mr. Binnen- 



^pothekcn, 1825. 124. 'i"v'' f Sie BuitciiTorg Botanical Garden 



(I'uSTat.S!!"'"''" ^'^'^'^^'■"^'"■'''' '• neai- Batavia, ami Dr. De Vry. 



