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^ 5 Piper Caudatum. 
Tailed Pepper. 
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together^greene at the firft,and afterward blac- 
kifh j in tafte (harper and hotter than common 
blacke Pepper, yet fweeter, and of better tafte. 
t For this figure alfo I acknowledge my felfe 
beholden to the learned and diligent C/ufi m 
who caufedittobe dravvne from a branch of" 
fome foot in length, that he receiued from D r , 
Lambert Hortenfius, who brought it from the In- 
dies. The order of growing of theleaues, and 
fruit is like that of the blacke ; but the joints 
ftand fomewhat thicker together, the leafe alfo 
doth little differ from that of the blacke, onely 
it is thinner, of a lighter greene, and (as Clutim 
thought) hath a fhorrer loot-ftalke, the veines 
or nerues alfo were ltfle imminent, more in 
number, and run from the middle rib to the 
Tides, rather than alongft the leafe. t 
4 This other kinde of Pepper brought vnto 
vs from ^Ethiopia , called of the country 
where it growcth, Piper J&thiopicum . in (hops, 
Amomum,and alfo Longa Vita. Itgrowethvpon 
a fmall tree, in mannerof an hedge bufh, where- 
upon grow long cods in bunches, a finger long, 
ofa btowne colour, vneuen, and bunched or puft 
kers or cels, each whereof contained a round feed o£nv 
Wh ° fe « » ^t to 
, 5 , Another kinde of Pepper is fometimes brought, which the Spaniards do call pimentaderabe 
. d of.;^ PP W V a : 1 I s \ vm ° C " beb «, round, full, fpmewhat rough, blacke of colour 
and ofa (harpe quicke tafte like the common Pepper, of a good fmell: it groweth by cinders vp 
on fmall ftems or (hikes which fome haue vnaduifedly taken for Amentum. The King of Portin- 
gal forbad this kinde of Pepper to be brought ouer,for feare lead the right Pepper (hould be the 
leffe efteemed,and fo himfelfe hindered in the fale thereof 8 1 
%The Place, 
Blacke and white Pepper grow in thekingdome ofMalauar.and that very good • in Malaca al 
■ i and a fo *» .^e Wands Sunde and Cude /there is great (fore ^growingTn the' 
kingdomeof China, and fome in Cananor 3 but not much ^ D 
thago^nTfi^uamd^'^he^ h" Al ? cr .t ca ’ V 1 abtbc trad of the country where Nata and Car- 
tnago are iituated . The reft hath been fpoken of in their feuerall defections The white Pcnocr 
is not fo common as the blacke, and is vfed there in dead of fait. P PP 
T > , . _ . if The Time. 
le plant nfethvp m the firft of the fpring; the fruit is gathered in Auguft. 
tu /- ■ .... If The Names. 
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iMeffet : in Englifh, Pepper. ’ f ' $P ° ’ P,menU : 111 Frcndl ' Po!ure ■ m high-Dutch, 
whlreSSldTtw bSkid^I ***’ aild ° ffom ^ardamomum, 
T > A , . , V The Temperature. 
B^tt'tdTanpJ P r rfian P K yf L ti ; lnS iud § e ’ that Pe PP« is hot in the third degree, 
almoft nde h d 7? P T Em Pf ckeS ’ hoId A>P« is cold, as 
we haue faid, is thought to be the belt of all tbekiades?^ “ h0t ^ “ the thlrd degree ’ and as 
. . % The Vertues. 
A be puCmedicLtnM 3 ^ rmCj that Pepper reflfteth poifon,and is good to 
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