S84 REMARKS ON THE STECIES OF PEPPER. 



Gr. UsTTspi 



Sans. MaricJm^ Maruha. 



Hind. Mirch^ Golmirch^ Culinurcli. 



Arab. Fidful, Filfil - 



!Pers. Tilp'il. 



Malay. Ladda. 



The Greek name of this species, from which- the 

 name of the genus is taken, has been said to be derived 

 from IIs^lw, because it is supposed to promote digesti- 

 on ^ But we have it on the authority of Hippocrates 

 that the Greeks received this term from the Persians^; 

 and these undoubtedly, had it from tl e Indians 2, from 

 whose country they imported the drug itself. In fact, 

 the Persian and Arabick, as well as the Greek and Latin 

 names, are derived from Pippali, the Sanscrit deno^ii- 

 nation of LongPepper. The ancients in general, with 

 tlie siiigle exception of Theophkastus, supposed the 

 . black, the white, and the long pepper to be the produce 

 of one plant. Hence, they might naturally enough ap- 

 ply to one species the Indian name of another. Sal- 

 MASius. vvfho notices this-^, has fallen, in common 

 with other modern writers ^, into the opposite error, 

 by supposing the black and white peppers to grow 

 on difterent plants. Pi so appears to be the first 



I Soapulfe Lexic. in voce. Alex. Aphr. in praef. 1. ] . probl. 



* DeMorb. Mul'er: ed. Foes. p. 6/2. 1. 14. 



3 Sajmas. Plinian. Exercit. in Solin. (Paris 1629. fol.) p. 1026. d. 



•J Ibid. 



5 Garcias Hist. Arom. apiid. Clus, exot. p. 182, 



