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COLLOQUY XIX. 
Das Cubebas. 
[Cubebs — The fruit of Piper cuheha, Linn. A climbing dioecious 
shrub, indigenous to Java, Southern Borneo, and Sumatra.] 
E'ames — ciiieh and cabeh by the Arabs ; calelechini (Jcahala chini) 
by people in India generally except those who speak Malay, because 
it was brought to India from Java by the Chinese ; cmnac or cumacos 
in Java. 
It was used by the Mahommedans in India, as an aphrodisiac. It 
grows like the pepper, but its leaves are somewhat narrower than those 
of the pepper. The fruit is cooked before exportation to prevent its 
cultivation elsewhere. Garcia points out that it was a mistake to 
confound it with pimenta, which was also exported from Sunda, but 
in much larger quantities ; being used as an article of food not a medi- 
cine. He further states that Serapion and Avicena were in error in 
regarding cubebs to be the same as the carpessio of Galen, and the 
myrto agreste of Dioscorides. He also denies that it is to be identified 
with the vitex or agnus castus, the latter being an aphrodisiac. 
[References. — Linsclioten ii., p. 130 ; AinsUe i., p. 98 ; Fluchiger 
und Sanhury, p. 526 ; Khory, p. 494.] 
COLLOQUY XX. 
(1) Do Datura (2) e dos Doeioes. 
(1.) Patura. 
[The Datura plant, Patura stramonium, Linn., and P. alha, jSTees.] 
Garcia describes the intoxicating efPects produced by datura, and 
takes Ruano to see a woman under the influence of a dose adminis- 
tered by her servant previous to robbing her. He prescribes for the 
woman emetics, clysters, and bleeding, and says this treatment never 
fails. 
[References. — Clusius (Acosta) p. 77 ; Zinschofen, i., pp. 210, 211 ; 
II., pp. 68, 72, 212 ; Amslie, i., pp. 443, 446 ; Fluchiger and Sanhury, 
p. 412 ; Khory, p. 451.] 
(2) Porioes. 
[The Durian fruit, Purio zilethinus, D'C] 
