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BULLETIN 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 

No. 12.] DECEMBER. [1887, 

XXI.—CUBEBS. 
(Piper Cubeba, L.) 
The rapid rise in value which in recent Joos has occurred in cubebs 
has drawn considerable attention to this er. It may be useful, 
summary of information on the soe i To this we are enabled to add 
drawings of the male and female plant of Piper Cubeba, L., taken from 
a Java plant, and one of Miquel’s types, in the Kew Herbarium. This 
is Cubeba officinalis, me er and Piper caudatum, Hort. non Vahl. 
There are good figures of this species given by Berg and Schmidt, 
Officinellen Gewdchse, t , and in Baillon, Histoire des Plantes, 
ol. TIL, The plant figured by Be and Trimen (except 
r Chaba, Hunter 
[Chavica officinarum, Miguel], belonging to the a dt group. 
The cubeb plant, like those which supply the black pepper and the 
long pepper, is a climbing shrub with smooth round stems, which are 
somewhat swo en at the joints. The leaves are Se ems ey on short 
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1887. 
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