PIPER LONGUM. ORD. XLIV. Piperite. 725 
flowers are small, and produced in short dense terminal spikes, 
which are nearly cylindrical: the parts of inflorescence, though 
less distinct, correspond with the description given of the former 
Species. It is a native of the East Indies, especially Java, Malabar, 
_ and Bengal. : 
The berries, or grains, are very small, and lodged in a pulpy 
matter; like those of the black pepper they are first green, and 
become red when ripe. This fruit is hottest to the taste in its 
immature state, and is therefore gathered while green, and dried 
by the heat of the sun,~ i ish or dark grey 
colour. : ae 
It is observed by Dr. Cullen, that Long pepper has precisely the 
same qualities with those of black, only in a weaker degree: * 
Bergius also judges black pepper to be hotter than this species ; 
an opinion which appears to us unfounded, and the contrary is 
asserted by Lewis and Murray: the latter says, “ Ad meum aliorum- 
que quorundam sensum, in lingua acrius et calidius adhuc est Piper 
longum reliquis dictis speciebus.”” 
* Rumph. f. c. 
* Mat. Med. vol. it. p- 209. * App. Med. vol. 5. p. 36. 
“ 
ACORUS CALAMUS. : SWEET FLAG, Or ACORUS. 
SYNONYMA. Calamus aromaticus. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. 
Acorus verus, sive Calamus aromaticus officinarum. Bauh. Pin. 
p. 34. Park. Theat. p. 140. Raii Hist. p. 1313. Synop. p. 
437. Acorus verus, officinis fals6 Calamus. Gerard. Emac. p. 62. 
Acorus. Hall. Stirp. Helv. n. 1307. Acorus Calamus. Hudson. 
Flor. Ang. p. 147. Withering. Bot. Arr. p. 357. Relhan. Flor. 
Cant. p. 140. Thach xuog bé. Flor. Cochin. p. 208. 
No. 52.—vot. 4. 8x 
