554 



t. 243, &. 2-11; Kew Bull. Dec, 1887, p. 3; GreshofF, Nutt. 

 Ind. PI. t. 37, £f. 1-4 ; Kohler, Med. Pflan. {Cubeba officinalis) ; 

 Planchon& Collin, Les Drog. Simples, i. ff. 328-330; Greenish, 

 Materia Medica, p. 154, ff. 81, 82. 



Vernac. names.—Cuheha (Spanish, Descourtilez); Cumae 

 (Java, Woodville). — Cubebs or Java Pepper. 



Lagos, Old Calabar — ^in the Botanic Gardens; native of 



Java and the Moluccas. 



" Cubebs " of Commerce are the fruits, which closely resemble 

 those of ordinary Pepper (P. nigrum) ; they are used medicinally 

 and both the fruits and an oil extracted from them to the 

 extent of 10 to 18 per cent. (Parry, Chem. Ess. Oils, p. 202) 

 " Cubeb Oil " are official in the British Pharmacopoeia. Supplies 

 of the fruit come chiefly from Java, but the demand would 

 appear to be limited. India also imports fruits and to a small 

 extent produces some by cultivation (Diet. Econ. Prod. India). 



The cultivation is easy and plants may be conveniently 



grown 



&c. 



Eef.—"' Cubebae," in Pharmacographia, Fliickiger & Han- 

 bury, pp. 584-589. "Cubebs {Piper Cubeba, L.) " in Kew 



BuU. Dec. 1887, pp. 1-4. "Piper Cubeba" in Med. PL 



No. 243, 4 pages " Piper Cubeba," in Diet, 



Trimen 



Watt, vi. part U, 1892, pp. 257-258. 



" Piper Cubeba" in Nuttige Indische Planten, Greshoff, pp. 



157-1 59 .■ " Poivre Cubebe," in Les Drogues Simples d'Origin& 



Veg^tale, Planchon & ColHn, i. pp. 415-425, including particulars 

 of " Faux Cubebes " (Paris, 1895). 



Piper guineense, Schtcm. & Thonn. [P, Clusii, CDC] ; M. 



Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 1, p. 145, 



III. — De Wildeman, Mission E. Laurent, i. p. clxxv. (fruits); 

 Thonner, Bliitenpfl. Afr. t. 27; Engl. & Drude, Veg. Erde, ix, 

 p. 649, f. 560; De Wildeman, Etudes Fl. Bangala, p. 129, f. 51. 



Vernac. names. — ^^lasoro (Hausa, Dalziel) ; Komasimi (Sierra 

 Leone, Scott Elliot) ; Yaray (Sierra Leone, Col. & Ind. Exhib. 

 1886) ; [Sassama (Cape Coast) Assawansah (Axim) African 

 Plantations Ltd,) ; lyere (Lagos, Dawodu) ; Senna (Winnebah^ 

 Christy) ; Dojvie, Saosa (Gold Coast, Crowther) ; Ehien (Benin^ 

 Untvin) ; Jihefo or Jihefu (Golungo Alto, Welwitsch) ; Pimenta 

 (Island of St, Thomas, Welwitsch). — Black Pepper of West 

 Africa ; Ashantee Pepper ; African Cubebs (Wharton, Mus. 

 Kew) ; Benin Pepper, 



Lagos, Benin, Bornu, in Nigeria, and also found on the Gold 

 Coast, Sierra Leone, French Guinea in West Africa, and in 

 Uganda, Angola, &c* 



The fruits of this species was known as early as 1364 from 

 the Grain Coast (Liberia) and 1485 from Benin, exported from 

 the latter place by the Portuguese in a, vain attempt to sell it 

 in Flanders, and one cask of it was offered for sale in London 

 as '' Cubebs,'' Feb. 11th, 1858 (Fliickiger & Hanbury, Pharmaco- 



