Betel pepper

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An evergreen vine which attaches itself to the ground like ivy. The betel pepper has larger berries than most peppers. In the East Indies and South Pacific inhabitants consider the betel pepper as a necessity of life, and the leaf, with quicklime and the areca nut is chewed.

Source

Thomas T. Smiley. Encyclopaedia of Geography (Hartford:Belknap & Hamersly, 1839) 228

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