S62 REMARKS ON THE SPECIES OP PEPPER, 



JPtper Longum Tsjahe» Rumph. Amb. 5. p. 333. t. 

 116. f. I. 



Malay. Chahatddi. 



This species has been generally confounded with 

 Piper Longum ; but a comparison of the figure above 

 quoted from Rumphius, with that of Rheede's Cattu- 

 iirpali. H. M. /. p. 27. t. 14. will clearly evince them 

 to be different. 



The Piper Longum is called in Sanscrit Pippali, in 

 Hindi Pipel, and in Persian Ptlp'il'i derdz. The species 

 now under consideration appears to be the same that is 

 called in Sanscrit Chavicd and in Hindi Chab. All the 

 Sanscrit medical writers, as well as vocabularies of that 

 language, concur in stating the produce of this plant 

 to be Gaja pippali or Gaj pipel. This name was how- 

 ever assigned to a very different plant examined by Sir 

 William Jones '^^, the Tetranthera Apetala of Dk. 

 Roxburgh ^1. And the fruit of a plant, very diffe- 

 rent from both, is sold under that name by the native 

 druggists in Calcutta. 



5. Pifer Latifolium P 



Fruit like the former. Leaves alternate, deeply 

 cordate, obtuse, nine-nerved. 



Mai. Gddu ov Gddiikh, 



The leaves are used as a pot-herb. - 



Having seen only a small specimen, without fructi- 

 fication, which I know merely by description, I cannot 

 speak with certainty of this species. 



1*5 Asiat. Res. v. 4, p. 303. 

 17 PI. Corom. No. 147. 



