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Show Crape.iod, 638 T ripe17, Theatrum Botanicam, Trrse1. acceptedtoa dainty palate, theskinne being fo tender that as in a Plumme or Cherry, it cannot be pared away, the {mell ofeach refembleth the Rofe, and in propertyiscold and moift. The trees never without greene and ripe fruite thereon, and bloffomes alg anall times, which falling abundantly. on the — _ it feeme’all red therewith, theripefrutte bythe thaking ofthe tree are foone made tofall, gathere thirft, Cuar.109, 4saca or Iaca. The Diamond fathioned Chefnut Gourd, His tree groweth in fiindry of the Indian Ilands nearé the water fides to be of avalte bigneffe, having leavesot an hand breadth with athicke hard ribbeall the length thereof, and of a pale greene colour 2 the fruite is very great(not growing from the ~ younger branchesor with the leaves, but out Iaaea veltaca, The Diamond fafhiond Chefnut Gourd, of the body,and elder boughes thereoflong andthick, Cwar. the leaft whereof is greater then the greateft Gourd, having a hard thicke rinde of a darke greene colour, Jangoma,. ladian Services. fet with fhort Diamondpointed like blackifh prickes, WAC- Anzomas axe Intliahfruites ikeServiees, growing on trees not much unltke our Service treé, both.in Na leaves anid flowerg, but fet withthorhes, and are manured or planted in Orchards as well as found Fy wild abroad : abe feuice is harth likean unt ipe Sloe whenitisripe, and muft therefore be rowled 2 berwetne the inetrs, tomakeit mellowbefore it can beaten, and is generally taken to binde or reftraine, when{eever theres caufe of fuch an operation. which a farre off threaten danger in the handling, but fhewing favour in doing no harme, which when they are ripe {mel {weet,and grow fomewhatfoft,that they will yeeld to the preffing of ones hands, and being cut longwife, not athwart, have a thicke yellowifh white meate within them, devided into fundry cells or par- Crap. Leecoma.~ titions full of long and thicke Chefnut like fruites, greater then any Date, withan afh coloured ontfide, CVII “The Indian Chefnut. ¥LasssHis tree groweth very great, anid the wood is {trong and firme, havingleaves like to the Strawberry, SA PN tree, the frvite every like to our Che{nut, as wellincolourasbigneffe, asalfo in that white or {pot SAS thereon, but itfeemed to have the kemell loole within it, for that ic giveth a noyfein thaking,the fruic “is edible and pleafanr,-yeralittlealtringent, and white fubffance within like a Chefnut, which while they are rawtafte hatfh and breed mach winde, but being roafted as Chefnuts ufe to be,or fodden, tafte favory and {titre up venery, for which purpofe the people cate them much: the whitifh pulpeor {ubftance wherein thefelye is of a pleafane tate but hard of difgeftion, and breedeththat peftilent difeafe called’ 420exi, if they be much oroften eaten,or that they lye cor= rupted in the ftomack : Thofe that grow in AZ«labar are accounted thebeft, and better then thofe of Goa; Cuaz, CVIII. Linfchote faith the two forts hereof are called Girafol Charamei. Purging cornered Hafell nuts. léré are two kindesof this tree, called Charamei byall the Indians generally, but the. Perfians and A- rabiaxs Arbbela,the oneis as great asthe Med- Charamei. Purging cornered Hafell Nuts, and Chambafol, bue Palxdanss Barca and Papa, and that thofe other nameg doefignific the goodneffe or meanneffe of wares, m Fillberd Nuts,ending in fundrycorners, ofthe tafte of fowre Grapes, yet more pleafanr, whichthcypickleup as well being ripe as unripe, and nfually eate them withfalr, The other kinde is of the fame bignefle,but hath leffer leaves then the Apple tree,and a greater fruite, which the Indians ufe being boyled with Saunders & give the decoction againft feavers: the barke of the roote of the for- mer kinde, which growerh by the waterfides, is chicfely nfed ({oas itgrow farre from the {ea ) which yeeldeth milke, by taking foure fingers length thereof, which being bruifed with a dramme of Muftatdfeed, theygive to thofe that are purfieand fhort winded: for it pargeth mightily both upwardsand downewards: but if a {uperpurgation chance thereupon, they give oneof the fruits of Carambolas tohelpeit, orelfeadraught of the vinegar of Canara (whichis‘nothing elfebut the decoction of Rice fet byfor a day; two orthree,uhtill it grow fower, The fruite is familiarly eaten throughall parts, unripe as well asripe.and pickled,or eaten with faleand vinegar to procure an appe= tite,putting it to their meatestogive thema rellith by reafonof its tartne fle. 1639 Cwar. CIX. — ~ as allo cafily gachered by-baad\ The Indians!oPCWalabar and Canara call it Jambolin, the Portege s that-dwell there Jambos, thé Miabiansand P erfians Tupha, and T zphat,cheTsarkes elma, :Theythere ufetoeate this fruic before meate mot niuaily, yet they are not refifed at other timesalfo: both flowers and frutite - prefent ed with Sugar, and? kept to giveto chofe thar. have hot agues tocooletheir ftomackes and liver,and to quench The Theater ofPlants. ee Cap. €X. Cachi & Ciccara, The Pine apple like Chéefnut Melon, SyHere isa prickly of thornytree Stowing in AZalabar which the y call Cachi & the fruit théreofC iccara; the tree is as preatasa Figtree, with Dateli ke leaves, and hard wood like Box, which they put to many ufes : the fruit groweth not on the b rahches, but out of the body, and elder bonghes as the rfue yy) Sycatnore or Egiptiax Fig doth, and Nd isa isa f foote in length, of the thickneffe oforie s thigh, and of a " brownithyellow outfide when i Cisripe, being formed fomewhat like a Pine apple, and having many feyérall cells or partitions within it asa P omegatnet hath ; the inner fubftan ce whereo fis and well {ented,bur talting like a Muske Me lon,a Peach, a fweete Or >and b 7 fomewh ~ at nrme taine inthem 250. or 300. {mallfruits in thapeand ate like ¢Figges ¢ Orrengeand hony together; thefe cells cons without skinnes, within fruit ig another lefler, refembling a Che(nut, which of whictf is eaten toaalted by the fire 4s Chefnutsare,and every will cracke like them in theroafting, Cxi Pe |