3Q0 EEMARKS ON THE SPECIES OF PETPER, 



The island pepper is more esteemed than that which 

 comes from the Malay continent and Sumatra, and it 

 sells for about one Dollar more per picol. The dif- 

 ference is occasioned by the haste of the Malays to 

 gather the fruit before it is sufficiently ripe. 



2. Piper Betle. Lin. sp. 40. Syst. 74. Reich. 1.75. 



Wiild. 159. Fl. Zeyl. n. 27. Loiireir. Cochinch. 



31. Burman. Zeyl. 193. t. 83. f. 2. Moris. Hist. 



3. 603. Miller's Diet. No. 2. Leaves obliquely 

 ., cordate, acuminate, waving, seven- nerved, smooth. 



Beteje Tamhulswe. Betre. Burm. Zeyl. aQ, 



Beire, BeteJle, Betele, Beth. Bauh. Hist. i. p. 437. 

 Ray. Hist. 191 3. Acost. Arom. c. 10. Clus^ exot. 

 176. t. 176. Dale pharm : 313. 



Beetla Codl Rheede Mai. 7. p. '29. t. 15. Bulat 

 waela. Herm. Zeyl. 34. 36. 66. 



Sans. TamhuU, ParnaJata, NagavaUi. 



Hind. Tdmhul, TamUI, Naghcl, Pun. 



Tamul. F^tillay-Chuddi, 



Malay. Siru 



Saumaise has shown at length, and with considera- 

 ble strength of argument, that the ancient Greek writers 

 meant this leaf by Malabathnan, rather than the leaves 

 of Laurus Cassia, or Tez-fat ^5. The Arabick and 

 Persian Languages have no names for this plant. 

 Ta7nhol\s borrowed from the Hindi by Persian Authors, 

 who name the leaf Bergitambol. It is called Pan in 

 Hindi, from the Sanscrit Partia, a leaf in general ; in 

 the same manner as it was known to the Romans under 

 the name of folium H, The Indian writers enumerate 



U Salmas. Exer: Plin. p. 1070. 

 ^4 Id. ib. p. 1071, 1072. 



