Of thcHiftoryof Flatus. 
thing it mecreth withall. The Ieaues are few in nn nber, f growing at each iontone.fird onoie 
nde ofche ftalkc, then on the other, like in iTupe to the long vn Jiuided leaner of hr/, o it chiimc-, 
fharpe pomted,and fometimes fo broad, that they are foure inches oner, but m 1 1 co n noiiy two 
hm 1 1 anil frt Iirp lAltrr tiinmrr-iliH'iiac Cun n»nc»>< I . 
! large nerues running along.l them. The 
inches broad, and fonre long, hailing ahvaies fine pretty 
fruit grow cindering together vpon long (talks, which com? forth at the iointsagaTndthe 'leaiies 
as you miy fee in the figure .-the root (asonemayconiefhire) is creeping; for the branches that 
lie on the ground do at their ioints put forth new fibres or roots. We^re beho'den to cUftus for 
this exafl figure and defcription,which he made by certaine branches which were brought home 
by the Hollinders fro m the Eaft Indies. The curious may fee more hereof in his Exocickes and 
notes vpon Garcias. $ 
2 The Plant that brings white Pepper is nottobediftinguifhed from the other plant, but only 
by the co our o the fruit, no more t^an a Vine that beareth biacke Grapes, from that which brin- 
geth white : and o, fome it is thought, that the felfe fameplantdoth fometimes change it felfe 
from black to white, as diners other plants do. * Neither Jufius, nor any otherelfe that I haue vet 
metwith, hauedeliuered vs any thing of certaine, of the plant whereon white Peppergrowes : clu. 
Jins only hath gmen vs the manner how it growes vpon the ftalkes, as you may fee it here exprefi ± 
There is alfo another kmde of Pepper, feldrme brought into thefe parts of Euroue called Pmr 
Ctnarmm • it is hollow within, light, and empty, but good to draw flegme from the head, to helpe 
the tooth- ache and cholerickeaffe&s. 1 
3 The tree that beareth long Peuperhathnofimilirudeatall with the plant that brings black 
and white Pepper: fome hauc deemed them to grow all on one tree, which is noc confonant to 
truth, for they grow in countries fardiftant one from another,and alfo that countrey where there 
is biacke Pepper hath not any of the long Pepper; and therefore Galen following Diomids wre 
together both ouerfeen in this point.This tree, faith 'JMonardesM nor great, yetof awooddy fob- 
nance, difper ling here and there his clafping tend rels, wherewith ittaketh ho'd of other trees t-d 
Inch other things as do grow neerevnto it. The branches are many and twiggie whereon srowes 
me fruic, con lifting of many graines growing vpon a flcnderfoot-ftalkc,thruil or compaS'clofe 
together, 
f t Fip’r tongum. 
Long Pepper. 
4 Piptr ^Ethiepicum,fme Vita Ion? a. 
Pepper of Ethiopia. 
