Note 131 — V. HERE FOLLOWETH CONCERNING INDIA THE GREATER.
Reading edition
The cubeb (Piper cubeba and P. caricum) is the only one of the spices named which grows in Java proper. In those days it was probably exported as a condiment chiefly. This statement that pepper was not produced in the islands confirms the inference of the sagacious Crawfurd, that it is exotic in Sumatra. (See his Dict. of the Archip., article Pepper.)