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Show Tbeatrum Botanicum. COHAP.22, Caryophjllo'um affigtes jpu ta, A faile gure of the Clove tree. Tripe 17. Caryophyllorum tormelis genuina effigie. ' ‘A branchof the Clove tree with the finite truel yexprefied. planted by the Datch, inother places of the Indies more {carfely and leffe finitefull thenthere, whicharé called generaily by the Indians Calefur, andbythofe of the Maluccas amd in fome other placesChangue, The proper= are many and excellent, being hot-and dry in the third degree,yet fomefay the fecond,and of much tiés of Cloves nf both in meate and medicine, comforting the head andthe heart, and {trengthening theliver, the ftomacke, and all the inward parts that want heate, helping digeftion, to breake winde, and to provoke urine: The oyle cally drawne is much ofedfor the rooth-aché,and to ftop hollow aking teeth,asalfo to be put into perfumes ¢ teather and the like,the Cloves themfelves for their excellent fent, ferving asa {peciall part in all {weet powthers, {weet waters,perfuming pots,&c. Garcias faith that the Portugall women diftill the Cloves while they are freth, which make amoft {weer and delicate water, no leffe ufefull for fent, then profitable for all the paflions of the heart, the weakenefle of the ftomacke, &c. and with the pouther of Cloves applyed to the forehead helpe the head ach comming of cold, asalfo by eating them procure a {weet breath: Someashe faith procare {weating to thofe that have the Frenchdifeafe, bygiving Cloves, Nutmegs,Mace, long and blacke Peppers buc this hath noufe with us. T raeaa 17. The Theater of Plants, China ravi# officinarum, The true China roote. Cwa P.23. Pfendochina, Baftard China, fumptions,to rectifiethé evildifpoficion of thé liver, thé invéterace paines in the héad and ftomacke, and ftréng3 thenethit, and to dry up the defluxions ofrheumes,to helpe the jaundife and the burftings in children or others. by drying up the humour, which is the canfe thereof : ithelpeth alfo the palfic, and all the other difeafes of the’ joyntsand bladder, the gout and Sciatica, and thenodesalfo, and ulcérs of the yard, and is goodin all cold and melancholicke gricfes, fometake it to bea greatincendiaryto luft: the mannetoftakingit is divers, for fome boyle it being fliced thinne,and {teéped for a good while in water oncly, and fome adde wine thereto, and fome boyle itin the broth withachicken, tyed up inalinnencloath, andtotake from a quarter to halfe an ounce or more at a time,as the quantity of drinke or broth you will provide, or as the party canbeare, Wehave hada kinde of roote broughtus from the Welt Indies in forme fomewhatlike unto this true, bit harder, redder, and p;, more knotty,which fomecalléd baftard China; and was not afed by any that Iknow, Monardus faith that the true was planted in the Welt Indies,and brought from thence very frefhinto Spaine. Christophorus a CoSta faith that they binde the belly,and fiarpen the eye fight, clene finz themand taking away filmes,or clouds thardarken it, iftheir water be dropped into them, and that féure drammes of the poutherofCloves taken in milke, will procure and ftirre up venery or bodily Intt. Cuar. XXII China radix officinarem, Theroote China, Gae Herooté called China, is like tothe roote ofa great reed, fomeflattifh, others round, not fmaoth, S26) bat bunched or knotty ,reddifh for the moft part om the ontfide,and whitifh, or fometimes a lircle reddith on the infidesthe beit is folid or firme,and fomewhat weighty, frefh and not worme eaten, and without anytalte, butasit were drying: it growethup with many prickely branches, ofa b} reafonable great bignefle,like unto Sar/a parila, orthe prickely Bindeweed, winding —S=4 pour trees, and hath divers leaves growing on themlike unto broad Plantaine leaves, th growfomerimes many together.and maybe eaten while they are frefh,and forthe Indians doe with their r as we doe Carrets or Turneps :: it not onely growethin China,but in A¢alabar, Cochin, Craxganor,T anor ther places cherejand is called Lampatanby the Chinefes,° and Chophchina by the Arabians and Perf pefties whereofare many,and ofgreat ufe withusin divers cafes: it was atthe firlt knowledge thereof Chriftiansand ockersthac dwelt in India,chiefly ufed for dyer drinkes in Lva Venerea, the Frenchditeafe, fince it is foundiproficable in agues,whether quotidian ox intermittant, or peftilentiall, and alio he&tickes and con{umptions, Cuar, XXIII. Cinamomum,Canella & Caffia, Cinamon and Caffia: m Koow that divers learned men are of opinion that Cinamon, Canell, and Caffia are three dilting things, differing each from other, and that we have no true Cinamon brought to us ( which controverfie is too long to infert in this place) but that which weufually have, is.astheycall ic Canell or Caffia, andnot Cinamon, yet Garcias {heweth that the Chineffe and Arabian Merchants, and others were the caufe ofthis plurality of names given to one thing, and of the fables that are exf tant in Herodotus and othersof it,and other chings ; and that the diverfity of goodneffe,either thicknefle or blackneffe,or other outward forme,or quicke and fharpetafte,or dull andleffe fapid,or the place ofgrowing madethe feverall forts that paffe under feverall names, both now and heretofore with the ancient writers- for if one would be curious now to fearch among the great ftore of Cinamon, that commeth from the E aft Indies yeately unto us, as C/u/ius and others have done, he might finde as muchdiverfitie both in goodneffe and colour as he or any other did at onetimeor another : for being the barke ofa tree, the goodneffe followeth nfiially, either the place of growth, one being bettetthen another, or the oldneffe of the trees, the younger being the thinnet and (till having the quicker tafte and the frether colour, all the Arabians as Garcias {aith doe generally call it, be it of what tore foever, Querfaa, or Querfe (or Kerpha,whichin Avicenis aworfe fort, as Scaliger noteth, in Zeilan Crards, by the Perfians Darfini, that is, the woodofSina, which the Portugalls firft corruptly called China, and from thenee is the name China fed by all others: but whereas Garcia faith that thename of Cina~ ™mamuira Was given by thofe of Ormsis that bought it of the Chine/es,as though it weré Chine Amomsim. 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