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the French, Danes, Swedes, and English, can scarce be said to have given us any information. So that out knowledge of the East India Plants must be still extremely confined and imperfect, as will appear from the following Catalogue.
Catalogue 2d
Plants growing between the Tropicks in Asia which afford commercial Simples, and who Species are as yet unknown to Botanists to be translated to Jamaica.
1.
Cubebe vulgaris . Bauh. pin 412. The Cubebs of the Shops.
This is the dried Fruit of a Plant which grows in Java, and it is said, no where else in the East Indies. From the imperfect Notices we have of it from Travellers, it appears to be a Species of Piper, as Linnæus conjectures. The Javanese, we are told, will not sell them unboiled, nor suffer a Plant of them to be exported.P
2.
White Pepper.
It is well known that the White Pepper commonly used, is only the Black Sort divested of its Rind. But there is another kind, sometimes brought from the East Indies, which Doctor HillQ supposes to be naturally white, and from a Specimen
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P. Harris's Voyages Vol.1. p.786
Q. Mat. Med. p.463.