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Show 1634 Cuar.g7. Theatrum Botanicum, CHa. THARP. XOvI ‘ _PLhl e heata er of Plan n ts, ts , —~Cune.pas Cuar.995 " ‘Trise17 Guajave arboris ramus @& frufus, The Wel Indian Bay Plum. Cwar. Gaayava, The Welt Indian Bay Piumme, Melo Corcopali, S$ His tree ( whichis very frequent and well Knowne throughall the Weft Indies, and XCILX.° The American Quince Melon cree, east Orcopall, isa Province of the Indiés, whereinas alfoneere the Promo mtori Comars, growetha tree like : ae Unto the Quince tree,both for forme and leafe, bearing a large fruite as great Saw Ovahe ourfide like thereunto, very fweeté asa Melon, withribbes and pleafanttobe eaten, and phifica ll alfo, within which lye three or foure graines or kernel els ls like I Gra ¢ (tones," wh ich are’a fe s bitter as Cherryy ftone kernels thefickoas well as the found doe eate of this ; fruice,baving a quality thetein roev which they call Gwayabo, as they doe the fruite Grayaba,) groweth great bike unto an Orrenge ttee; butrhinner of branghes, bearing large leaves on them, two alwayes fee together,and oppofite aeuare evill humours, In the fame Province alfoof Corcopall groweth a white Medlar as'eteat as an Apple, whiehare like unto Bay Jeaves but larger, even foure inches long, and one and a halfe, ortwo inches broad, SaIEaRans Byte eee SC S gray oF of an hoary afh-colour underneath, with great ribs and {maller veines therein, ‘burof a fad. greene a- Cuap, boye; fmooth,and without any Thew of Veines almoft, Darian, fomewhathardin handling, and both {melling andtafting fomewhat likea Bayleafe: the flowers are like that is, fomewhatlong, greene before ic is ripe, and yellowith after (yet C/efeys faith that he received one from Doétor Tovar out of Spaine, th:t was blackith, pOpcenep iittiee light and fhrunke, which he impaiteth to the untipe- nefle of it) fomeaving areddith phlpe.wichin, and fomea white; very{weete and delicate in talte, diyjded as it were inro foure parts, ineach whereof lye ma- Crap, CI. Carcapuls, ny {mall graines or hard whire kernells, The Properties of the fruite befides the delicacyto be caten, hath an a(tringent power therein to ftay laskes, efpecially if theybe eaten while they are greene and not ripe. Cuar. XCVIIL The hard griftly Plumméof India called Ambare, Ba ae (ie leaves that grow onthisgrcat tree, called Ambare by all the Nations there abiding; although they may fecme fomewhar like thote of the Wallnut x cree forthe largencfle, yer are they not of " that fathion, for being {mail at the bottome; and they are broadeft at the end, and a littledented in in the middle thereof, “elaborate with many veines, and of @ pale greene colour: the fowers are fmalland white, andthe fruite that followeth of the bigneffe of a Wallnut, with a {moother and paler preeng skinne, ofa ftrong heady fent; and fowre harth tafte being unripe, but yellowwhenit is ripe, and of a more pleafant fent, containing a hard griftly fubfance within them, with fundry crofic hard nerves or threds running through, yet of fo pleafantatart fowre tafte that come mendeth it much, and therefore are nfed bythe Natives and ftrangers alfo inftead of vinegar,or fuchlike faw{e,to rellith their meate, and ftirre upanappetite, beingeat en withfalt andvinegar, while they are frefh or pickled to ferve for the yeares following, which endure very well : theyufetogive the freth fruite alfo to thofe that have hot agues, to coole their blood and humours, C, The Melon like bearing Orrerige. SS) His Melonlike bearing Orrenge it a finite called: former Corcopally whichis as grest'as a Citrull Coin Sumatra, Darian, isalfofomewhat like unto the and biggencilt like Orrenges butlonger, and tatteweumber, Having within ic five frites in fha é like unto freth fweete butrer: e thofe of the Orrenze or Pomecitron tree, {melling {weete like the lafmine ;'gfter which followeth the fruite, as great as a{mmall Apple, and like untoa Plum, Ambares, oes Ambares: The hard geiftly Plummeof India called mbar: j The Indian yellow Orrengés of Adalavar, SEXO Cofta maketh mention ofa great treein. ALalabar called Carcapuli differing from the Dari NING a the fruite an, for i ith jslike he (ith is ti an Orrenge, when eC) Corcaputi, The Indian yellow Orrenge aiYOON Yate the outer pill iscaken away, which confilt~ of Afalabar. mm eth offundry lnmpes ofpulpe; not /td-be feparated as they maybein the Orrenge, whole/rin de ie thinne; fmooth, ahd thining as gold whenitis ripe,of an auftere talte, and binding quality; yet pleafane, and are goodto {tay Auxes ofall forte, “and to refreth a dejected appetite, taken with fowre milke or Rice ; the ‘Midwives give it women in hatd boyled labour,to caufe a fpeedy delivery, as alfo to expell the afterbirth ¢ the juyceis profitably ufed tocleare the eyes of mits and rheumes, : Uebilere albssza, |