HUMULUS LUPULUS. ORD. XLI. Scabridz. 95 
Powder of Lupulin. Take of powdered lupulin one part, powdered loaf- 
sugar two parts. Mix—dose from ten to twenty grains. 
Tincture of Iupulin. Take of bruised lupulin one ounce, alcohol two 
ounces,—digest for six days in a close vessel ; strain, press strongly, filter, 
and add a quantity of alcohol, so as to make three ounces of tincture—dose, 
from thirty drops to one or two drachms.* 
+ Mr. Nicholas Mill affirms, that from forty to sixty minims of the saturated tincture 
of lupuline act as an anodyne, and have a powerful effect in allaying great nervous irri 
tation ; whilst.that stupidity which often wie eects the use of opium is never induced 
by Shia medicine. 
‘ORD. XLIV. PIPERIT-. 
PIPER CUBEBA. _ CUBEBS, or JAVA PEPPER. 
SYNONYMA, Piper caudatum. Ger. Em. 1540; Bauh. Hist. 2,185. 
Cubebe. Raii Hist, 1813; Park. Theatr. 1583 ; Clus. Exot. 184 ; Piper Cu- 
beba. Walla. Sp. Pl. 1. p.159; Gertn. de Fruct. 2. p.67. t. 92. Vahl. En. 
n. 61. 
Class UW. Diandria. Ord. III. Trigynia. 
Nat. Ord. Piperite, Linn. Urtice, Juss. Piperacee, Kunth. 
Gen. Char. Calyx O. CorollaO. Berry, one-seeded, coriaceous, smooth. 
Joints of the stem tumid. 
Spec. Char.’ Leaves, elliptico-lanceolate, smooth, five-ribbed, unequal at the 
base. Spike, solitary, on a peduncle opposite to the leaves. Berries on 
partial stalks, 
THIS species of pepper is a native of Java, where it is called cumac: it 
grows in great luxuriance in the woods of Tuntang; it also inhabits Sierra 
