[1102] Pimienta, the Spanish for pepper, is derived from pigmentum, a general name in mediæval Latin for spicery.—Malaguetta ([see article Grana Paradisi]) is also a name which has been transferred by the Spaniards and Portuguese to the drug under notice.
[1103] Lib. i. c. 17.
[1104] Theatrum Botanicum (1640) 1567.
[1105] Description of the Pimienta or Jamaica Pepper-tree.—Phil. Trans. xvii. No. 191.
[1106] Parliamentary Return, March 1805, quoted in Young’s West India Commonplace Book, 1807. 79.
[1107] Blue Book for Jamaica, printed 1872.
[1108] Figured in Bentley and Trimen, part 20.—The fruit of this species is easily distinguished, being crowned by 5-calyx lobes.
[1109] Exodus xxviii. 33, 34; Numbers xx. 2; Deut. viii 8; Cant. iv. 13; viii. 2.
[1110] Layard, Nineveh and its Remains, ed. 5, ii. (1849) 296.
[1111] Wilkinson, Ancient Egyptians, ii. (1837) 142.