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“ (* or Sendafour) from whence the black pepper 
“ is brought.” 
Avicenna, in his Canon, fays of Tebafhir, « it is 
“ the lower part of the cane which has been burnt ; 
<c it is reported that the canes are fired by being 
<c .rubbed one againfl another by the violence of the 
ce winds. This drug is produced on the coafl of 
« India.” 
Mamitha. 
Ebn Beitar in his Treatife of Simples calls it Ma- 
mitha. Abu’i Abbas the Nabathaean (* the botanifl) 
calls it Mamithfa. (* i.. e. the letter is written fome- 
times with j two, fometimes with 5 three points over 
it). Both thefe names are fuffi'ciently known. 
In the treatife of fimples called Ma-la-Yefa (*i. e. 
a treatife of thofe things which no phyflcian ought to 
be ignorant of) L£j*Lo Mamithfa, is “ the name 
** of a plant like the papaver maritimum, or cornicu- 
latum. At the lower part of the Mamithfa is a 
“ rooiffure which flicks to the hand : it has a yel- 
“ low flower like the papaver before mentioned; its 
“ feeds are different, inclining to black, like and 
“ about the fize of the feeds of fefamum. The 
“ plant is of a ftrong and offenfive fmell, and very 
“ fucculent. The difference between thefe two 
“ plants is this ; the papaver corniculatum dies to the 
<c root in the winter, and fprouts again from its root 
* l in the fpring; the Mamithfa, on the contrary, 
“ fprouts again in the fpring from the top of its Hem.” 
Avicenna, in his Canon, fays, “ Mamithfa is 
tc like acorns, of a yellow colour inclining to black, 
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