[2141] It has been particularly described by one of us in Pharm. Journ. ix. (1868) 279, with woodcuts.
[2142] Hanbury, Science Papers, 73.
[2143] Some information will be met with in Capt. Hunter’s Account of Aden, 1877. p. 107. In 1875-1876 there were exported from Aden 42,975 lb. of Waras.
[2144] The word pepper, which with slight varieties has passed into almost all languages, comes from the Sanskrit name for Long Pepper, pippali, the change of the l into r having been made by the Persians, in whose ancient language the l is wanting.
[2145] Vincent, Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients, ii. (1807) 458.
[2146] Vincent, op. cit. ii. 754; also Meyer, Geschichte der Botanik, ii. (1865) 167.
[2147] Migne, Patrologiæ Cursus, series Græca, lxxxviii. (1860) 443. 446.
[2148] Bar (as in Malabar) merely signifies in Arabic, coast.
[2149] Mirabilia descripta by Friar Jordanus, translated by Col. Yule. London, Hakluyt Society, 1863. 27.
[2150] “Piperis arbor persimilis est ederæ, grana ejus viridia ad formam grani juniperi, quæ modico cinere aspersa torrentur ad solem.”—Kunstmann, Kenntniss Indiens im xv. Jahrhundert, München (1863) 40.