1 7 6 PIP ERA CE^. 



The individual fruits are nearly as lai*ge as cardamom seeds, the 

 whole catkin having much the appearance of a small hlack- 

 berry. 



PIPER CHABA, Hunter. 



Fig. — Miq. III. Pip., t. 34; Ilayne, Arnz., Gewaclis. xiv., 





t. 21 ; Wight Ic, t. 1927. Long Pepper {Eng.), Poivre Ion 

 [Fr. ). 



Hab. — Cultivated in India and tlie Malay Islands. The 

 fruit and stem. 



Vernacular.— Q}xih {Hind.), Oliai {Beng.), Chavak {Uar.). 



PIPER LONGUM, Linn, 



Fig 



Ml 



t 244 ; Miq. III. Pi}}., t. 30 ; Ea-h 

 Wight Ic, t. 1928; PJieede, Hi 



Hab, — Hotter provinces of India. The fruit and root. 



Vernacular.— "IIlq fruit.— Pipal, Pippali {Bind.), Tippi^ 

 {Tarn.), Pippallu (,Tel.), Tippali (J/a/.), Yippali (Cf/^.), Pip^ 

 [Beng.), BangaH-pipali [Mar.), Pipara ( Giiz.). The root.— rip' 

 pali-miil, Pipla-mul, Pipla-mur {Hind), Tippili-mulam, Tip- 

 piH-ver {Tarn.), Modi, Pippali-katta {Tel), TippiH-ver (3/flZ.)* 

 PipuH-mul {Beng.), PipaH-miil {Mar., Gus.). 



History , U ses , &C . — xVs we have already stated, vre think 

 it highly probable that long pepper was the kind of pepper first 

 known to the ancient inhabitants of Western Asia and Europe. 

 (See P. nigrum.) In Sanskrit works on medicine, P. lonrjum i^ 



unaer 



ChapaU, Pala, M%adhi "growing in South Bihar/' Kand, 

 Shaundi, &c. It is considered to be digestive, sweet, cold, hit- 

 ter emollient and light ; useful in rheumatism, asthma, cough, 

 abdominal enlarffemenis ■Fo.rr.^ i^^„„„„ -u^^ r^ilfis and 



spleen. Old long pepper is to be preferred to fresh. A mixt«r« 

 ot long pcpner. Ion o- r.or.T^^^ «..„+ i.i i j -^n-or in 



pepper, long pepper root 



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