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diflinguifticd from the blacke by the very inhabitants and planters tkereof.untill itccrr.e toripercfTe (lorihc 
white and the blacke Pepper doe grow on ftvcrall trees or buffet Jbut that 1 he leaves are of a litile palergreene 
colour: the graines or berries are white, folid: or fiitr.e without wiincles, and more arcmaticall. CluJIm fir ft and 
"XattbkKa frcmhim would make a certaine Orange fiuit brought to Cluj «i to be the Btefma or Brnfma of Ditfco. 
ea and CtWicralfo as 1 verily thinke were 
deceived in this th’cir opinions, ro 
rides ,as Lil’.txot,x.caf. 22, frnCl. 4, but furely Cfrfiui and Baukiuur, y 
Tipet Lovgjm. Long Pepper. F i»8tu V'-ter Impm. 
’Piper K-tticpictm Matthitli O' Piper eaniaeum Orietialt; 
tnattbielm 1 11 Etl jopian Pepper,and a kind of Eaft India* 
fruite called Pepper wich a taiie. 
thinke that Diofcoridei Brsfma was a fort 
of Pepper differing from theblacke.when 
as it is but the light graines o( Pepper 
that have 110 fubftance in them, as it hap¬ 
pens to many other graines or berries, 
fomc to idle and nothing worth, and 
therefore wee call it light Pepper. The 
long Pepper hath leaves very neare to 
the fame forme and largene(Te,buta lit¬ 
tle longer pointed, of a paler greene 
colour, thinneralfo, and with a fhorrer 
footftalke, and not having foure fo emi¬ 
nent ribs paffing from the middle one, as 
in the other, but foure or five on each 
fide or more fometimes according to the 
largeneffeoftheleafe, with many other 
fmiller veinesthcreinlikewifc, and of 
little lefle acrimony and hot tafte then 
the blacke : the fruite of this alfo grow- 
cth in the fame manner as I fayd before 
oppofite to each leafe at the Joynts, 
Which are dofer let together then in the 
blacke, fome being greater or IcfTer, 
fliorter or longer th:n others, yet none 
thicker or longer then ones finger, con¬ 
fiding of many fmall graines as it were 
fet clofe together jn rowes, and not open 
and feperate as in the blacke and white 
Pepper, of an alh colour when it is ripe 
Piper luxpsB mmt'Mum Af/iunum fivt Felftl caul Aiplr.i, 
Long Pepper of Africa. 
