Chap. 14.] 
THE PEPPEB-TEEE. 
ill 
the bowels. Alexander issued strict orders, forbidding any- 
one in the expedition to touch this fruit, 
CHAP. 13. lOTIAN TREES, THE NAMES OF WHICH ARlE UNKNOWN. 
INDIAN TEEES WHICH BEAE ELAX. 
The Macedonians^* have made mention of various other 
kinds of trees, the greater part of which, however, are without 
names. There is one which resembles the terebinth in every 
respect, except the fruit, which is very similar to the almond, 
though less in size, and remarkable for its extreme sweetness. 
This tree was met with in Eactria, and some persons looked 
upon it as a variety of the terebinth, rather than as bearing a 
strong resemblance to it. As to the tree from which they 
manufacture a kind of linen cloth, in leaf it resembles the 
mulberry-tree, while the calix of the fruit is similar to the 
dog-rose.*^ This tree is reared in the plains, and there is no 
sight throughout the cultivated parts of the country that is 
more enchanting than the plantations of it. 
CHAP. 14. (7.) THE PEPPEE-TEEE.— -THE VAEIOUS E:INDS OF 
PEPPER — BEEGMA ZINGIBBEI, OE ZIMPIBEEI. 
The olive-tree*^ of India is unproductive, with the sole 
exception of the wild olive. In every part we meet with trees 
that bear pepper,*^ very similar in appearance to our junipers, 
See Theophrastus, B. iv. c. 5. 
Dalechamps and Desfontaines are of opinion, that the pistachio, or 
Pistacia terebinthus of Linnaeus, is here alluded to ; but Fee considers that 
there are no indications to lead to such a conclusion. 
It is not improbable that he may here allude to the cotton-tree, of 
which further mention is made in c. xxi. of the present Book. 
Fee is of opinion that Cynorrhodon here means, not the dog-rose, hut 
the gall which is formed on the tree by the sting of the Cynips bedeguar. 
Fee expresses himself at a loss to conjecture what trees are here meant 
by Pliny. 
Fee remarks, that there are many inaccuracies in the account here 
given by Pliny of the pepper-tree, and that it does not bear any resem- 
blance to the juniper-tree. The grains, he says, grow in clusters, and not 
in a husk or pod ; and he remarks, that the long pepper and the black pep- 
per, of which the white is only a variety divested of the outer coat, are 
distinct speoies. He also observes, that the real long pepper, the Piper 
longum of Linnaeus, was not known to the ancients. 
