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Show Cr APTQ, &beatram Botanic. dotes to refift venome, poyfons, and infectionof the heplague or otherdifeafes: it is goodin wounds and ulcers toreftraine the heate,andis of much ule with womenthat defireto preferve their beaury,by adding a lufter to the sKinne, CraPr. XIX. Caranka.. The Gumme Caranha, Aranka, Caravna,or Caragna, isa cumme brought fromthe Welk Indiés,whofe tree isnot de(cribed by anythat have writtenof it, bucis a foftkind ofGum, wrapped upin leaves that one peece fhould not fticke unto another, for itis very cleaving, and is of adarke or muddy greenith colour, having Z} (omewhata fharpe pierfing fent : bur there isanother fort as CMonardus faith, that is as cleere as Chriltal!, which Ineverfaw: It isa moft efpeciall'and {peedy helpe,when Tacamahaca could not as Afonardus faith be had,forall cold aches,and paines in thenervesand joynts,and thé {wellings and paines therin,the defluxions alfo of humours onthem,or on the cyes,or on any other part co be laid on the temples or behind the eares: it is alfo ufed as Well as 7acamahaca for the toothachto be laid on the templeslike Mafticke. Trvae 17. i erie The Theater of Plants, ae ast eS Se See Bes agreater and aleffer, but Fuck/is and RaeliwBeen thought the Capficumor Siliquajtram, our red Indian Pepper in long horned huskes,was the Arabians Cardamomumminus, which CMatthiolus difproveth as improbable, yea impoffible, the difference both in forme and propertyfo farre difabling it, and fome fuppofing the -#el, wera orgrana Paradif, which we callofually graines, or Ginney gtaines, to be the Grecians Cardamoraum, anid tlie Monkes that commented upon 4 ', tooke the {aid ALelegueta to be the lefler Cardamomes ofSerapio ‘all whichand many other opinions may now be burye d we better retolved that Diofcorides his Carda hothad not onely agreeth with Galens,whereot divers made a doubt, becanfe Diofcorides maketh his to be fharpe in talte, and fierce inthe fent, pierfing the (enfes,when and ina Galenreceipt pleafant, underftood tharpe or hot as7.de fame of Diofcorides, Crefles: for Galen doube thatand he not had fo from Pamphilus, comp. med, (ecund,no locos. c. $- heappointeth Cardamomum delibratum ; Cardamomes that were husked ro be taken, as alfoin (ectinda es dot, Zeno calteth away th: huskes,and in the Theriaca of Damocrates in verfe, Cardamomes in huskes are narhed and Diofcorides mentionech not any huskes, or other forme the of, becaufe it was fo familiarly knowne in his time, bue that ic was not eafie tobe broken, which che hus 1g toushdoe but it alfo agreeth w ch thofe wenfe in our fhoppes, and wich that which P/izy mentioneth, who-asdeclares I faid in the Chapter of Uist faith Cardamomumis like thereunto, thatisto Amomum, both inname ahd growth, but that che feed isloncer meaning the huske with he feed in it, asic isufed to be taken byhimand others in many things. And taece Dioféorides agreeing with that we ule in out hops, cann tbeany otheralfo then that of the Arabians Cwars RE Gardamomum, Cardamomes. 4 Here hath beene formerly much controvetfie concerning Cardamomes, whether we have either that } of thé Grecians,or thofe of the Arabians, fome fuppofing we haveneither, and that the Cardamomes wedaily ule,agree with neither of all their defcriptions. Theopbrajtus,D iofcorides and Gaien,among the auincient Greekes,and Pliny among the Latines mentioning but one fort, and rhe Arabians two, Meliguette (ve Cardamomum maximum et Grana P atadifi. Cardamomum pee : minus @cevulgare, Ginny graines, The erdinarylefict forts of Cardamome s, ufually brought toall thefe Chriftian parts, from the Balt Indies as Garcias confeffech; ‘and efpeciallythe lefler which as Garcias faith is the better, althoughashe faith, they be both of one Kinde, differing in bigneffe, the oper fort being fomewhat longer and rounder, and the {mall fhorter and not {o great, buc as ic were three {quare, Now as concerning Garcias his opinionthat the Arabians Sacolaa quibir,and ceguer Cardamomum majus &mintes Was not knownc to the ancient Grecians or Latines, afluredly he was miftaken therein, for the notes and markes ofDio/corides his Cardamomum doe in ail things agree both withours in ufe, brought from India, Pliny as 1 {aid before, fo thatnowfecing both Greekes, Arabians,aud Latinesare thus reconciled and thar of together,there needeth notreft any further doubt hereofto ule our Cardamomes in any of their receipts: butthe Azeleoneta eS Grana Paridifi; which is in formelike toaFigge, and fallof reddith {ced although it be good and fafe {pice to be uféd, yet can it notbe the Cardamomum mags , as divers have formerly takenit, andto this day is fo {uppofed by many, but as Garcias faith, it maybe the Co nbafbogue of Avicen, the greater and leffer Cardamomes differ not in kind but in greatneffe, the one fromthe o:her, and is called as Garcias faith by the Merchants of 47 bavar Etrimelli.by them of Zeilan Enfal, in both which places it growethplentifully as Garcias faith, in Beng and Serrat Hil, and of fome Elachi, but generally of the commonpeople Dae, in all thofe places: The y tues whereof are thefe: itis hot and dryin the third degree: itbreakecli the ftone, provokethurine whenitis ftopped or paffeth with paine : itrefifteth poy{on and the ting of the Scorpioa,-or ether venemous creatures, and killeth the birth if they be perfumed therewith: itis good againft the falling fickneffé, the cough, the broad Wwormes, and the tormentsorgriping paines in the guts,or bowels, and expelleth winde powerfully, both fron the ftomacke and entralls, eafeth thofe thatbyfalls or beatings are bruifed and broken, thole that have loofe and weake finewes,and the paine of the Sciatica orhip-gout, and ufed with y inegarit is good againlt fcabbes = itis ufed in many ofour compofitions, cordia\ls, Antidates and others : the indians as Garcias faith,put this to the Sompofition of their Besre leaves, whichthey continually chew intheir mouthes, ~ Cuap, XXI, Caryophylli, Cardavtomum majue vuleare. The greater fort of Cardamomes! Cardamomum scdium & minitam The two (mallet forts of Cardamo Cloves. f Lthough Clovesand Nutmégs, and {ome other {pices and drogués were not knowneto Diofcoride?: Galen, andthe other auncient Greekes, for Serapioin citing’ Galens authority fot Cloves, is eis ther falfe ormiftaken,for Paxlus eLginetaa later Greeke writer doth not mention it,ncicher yet doc S the Latines, or Péing inhis time ( forhis Caryophyllon, or Garyophyllon lib.12,c.7, is a round graine . like Pepper, asis fhewed before with the Amemum,but greater and fome in thefe dayestobe Amomum, and byothers Carpobalfamum) yet were morebrittle, and wastaken by they knowne to the lacer Greekes y meanes of the Arabian Authours, who have brought a more ample and exa@ knowledgeof the Indiancomnodities, and of manyother things,then were formerly knowne, fo that now what by the Portugals travels, the Dutch and ours by fea. unto thofe parts ; thetres hath beene well obferved, to be great and tall, covered With an afh-coloured barke, the younger branches being more white, having leaves growing by conpies one again(t another, fomewhat long and narrow like unto the Bay treethat beareth narrow €s, Witha middle nb, and fundryveines running there through, each of them {tanding onalong footeftalke,the ends ofthe branches are dividedinto manyfmall browne fprigs,; whereon grow theflowers on the toppes of the Cloves them{elves, which are white atthe firft, with their {prigges, greene aftérward, and laftly reddifh before they be beaten offfrom the tree, and being dryed before they be put up growblackithas we feethem, hdviug fourefmalt toppes at the heads ofthem, and a {mall round head, in the middle of them, the flowerit felfe {tanding betweene thofe, confifteth of foure {mall leaves like unto aCherry bloffome, but of anexcellent blewcolour, as it is con« fidentlyreported with three white veines in every leafe, and divers purplifh threds in the middle of 4 more daintyfine ent then the Clove it felfe, whichis fmall {lender fruite, like a fmall nayle, /and thetefore, called C/avms by many,and from thence the Dutch call them Naegelen »almoft being of a hot quicke and tharpetatte,| Which are firlt ripe and gathered, but thofe that doc abide longer on the trees, doc grow fomewhatthicker and Steater,and are not of halfe the others goodneffe, being called by molt Faffes, yer tome call the ftalkes of the Cloves Fuftes, and erowoftheir ownefalling, and are not gtafted: Hereout likewife commetha certainé darke redgum, and are found ufually put together; Thefe growchiefly in the Malacca Batherthem twife every yeare, thatis, in June and December, the leafe, barke and wood, Mlands, where théy being nothing fo hot In talle as the Clove: they growallo in Amboyna,where they grow well; and beare plentifully, being piers Bae, plante: |