557 



less than 1 lb. the first two years, about 1 lb. in the 3rd year 

 increasing to about 10 lb. of j)epper in the 5th year, continuing 

 so for 15-20 years, in the Straits Settlements under Chinese 

 Cultivation (I.e. p. 286). Preparation for market consists of 

 careful drying on mats in the sun or by artificial means for 



C6 



aking 



skins are readily removed and afterwards drying in the same 

 way for '' white pepper." 



This plant has been so often figured and discussed in the 

 course of the last two or three hundred years that one hesitates 

 to recommend the cultivation on a large scale in a new country ; 

 but where it is found to succeed w^ell it may be of value and for 

 full particulars of the cultivation, &c., the following works 

 may be referred to, 



Ref, — '' Pepper '' in The History of Sumatra, Marsden, 

 pp. 129-146 (Longman, & Co., London, 1811).—*^ Fructus Piperis 

 Nigri," in Pharmacographia, Fliickiger & Hanbury, pp. 576- 



582. 



Medicinal 



No. 245, 6 pages. " The Pepper Plant {Piper nigrum) " in 



Cultural Industries for Queensland, Bernays, jDp. 157-160 (Govt. 



Printing Office, Brisbane, 1883). ''Piper nigrum'' in Diet. 



Watt, vi. part U, 1892, pp. 260-267.- 



*' Poivre Noir," in Les Drogues Simples d'Origine Vegetale, 

 Planchon & Collin, i. pp. 407-412 (Octave Doin, Paris, 1895). 



Note on the Cultivation of Black Pepper in Assam, Basu, 



Agric. Dept, Assam, Bull. No. 4, 1898, p23. 1-5 (Assam Secre- 

 tariat Printing Office, Shillong). ''Cultivation of Pepper in 



the Bombay Presidency/' MoUison in Agric. Ledger, No. 3, 



1901, pp. 33-40. '' Pepper Cultivation in Malabar," Tropical 



Agriculturist, xxv. 1905 (1906), pp. 563-567. The Varieties 



of Cultivated Pepper, Barber, Bull. No. 56, 1906, Dept. of 

 Agric. Madras, pp. 123-133, vars. *' Balmacotta," ** Kallivalli 



and " Cheriakodi." '' All about Pepper,*' Fer|^ 



(A. M. & J. Ferguson, Colombo, 1907). — — "Piper nigrum 

 in Comm. Prod, India, Watt, pp. 896-901 (John Murray, 



Albemarle St., London, 1908), Die Piperaceae von Java 



(Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Flora von Java, No. 11), Skoorders, 

 jDp. 1-75 (Johannes Miiller, Amsterdam, 1908) including P, 

 Jongum and Ciiheha,— — " The Cultivation of Pepper in Sarawak," 

 Hewitt, in The Brirish North Borneo Herald, 190S, Aug. 

 1st, pp. 148-149; Aug. 17th, p. 157. *' Trang Pepper," 



Derry, in Str. Sett. & Fed. Malay States Bull. viii. No. 4, 

 1909, p. 240. " Black Pepper " in Materia Medica, Greenish, 



neon, DD. 1-94 



5» 



pp. 157-159 (J. & H. Churchill, London, 1909). *' Black 



Pepper,*' in Spices, Ridley, pp. 240-312 (MacmiUan & Co. 



Ltd., 1912). " Pepper- Growing in Upper Sarawak," Dalton, 



Sarawak Museum Journal, Feb. 1912, pp. 52-60. *' De Peper- 



Cultuur op Banka," Rutgers, in Medcdeelingen van bet Labora« 

 torium voor Plantenziekten, Batavia, No. 19, 1916, pp. 1-36, 

 illust. ; with an English Summary. 



