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Show 1606 é_AnAppendix to Per(ea arbor. Toh Stoned > = ¢a, Phyfition and oo Pro florof Valen” The PerfianPlum. garden of a Monaftes: _the Hiftory ofPlants. a,wh red methetree m a eee WhO fhewed growing ; ae SOWIE In the Cuar,16. Va}on, Monafteriea ia, roughta thither,as tia,br theymile fay from ott f ce &Y,Oure Yo te hefo: faid theycalled it cag i : ) Latmay-Ame. by 1¢ Spaniards who hauedefcribed ‘A y: but Bie this name to another tree PhSsii yore after, I vnderftood by the mof ue ; Tamarindifiliqua. The cod of the Tamarinde. Tamarindus. The Tamarinde. imon de Tovar.a Phyfition ofCiy; , math the fame treein his garden exotick : Of Lamarindes. et Oe ee -N, With oth ticke plants,that itis not called oe ut dguacate, Thus much o ; ¥; ) where UC OF Clifins . : ete fuchas aredefirous, may finde more e rgely handled the queftion ‘hi the Perfea of the Anti entsee 0 anise Sete tS OF NO ? Rariarums plan Hiffl 1.0.2, CuHap. 1%, Of efners wilde Ouinee : q The Defription, Cotonafter Gefperi. Ge{ners wilde Quincetre (| He thrubwhich There figure out ofCl. 7 ne-meuely both bybim and others, byGener a oer or Cidonago,mentioned Wath bas . Epiftles, lib, 3. pa. 88. It baer nes fome cubit long, tough, and piace ote : - their Jower parts, coucred tthe pres atke : and towards the tops thofe of Ou ac eae Ieaues fomewhatlike aia haat oe ofa darke greene aboue, sedat ihe fon Spagi fnipt aboutthe edthay fon oO the branches grow vfually fe oo fiue purplithcotheir middt s is oe withfomethreddes in care - :thefe decaying , vnder them Saco ihe ; . berries without any pulpor lat ieede +3 themcontaining foure trianguwate a this flousing in Tune queftions a icWere savas ears a yeyment 'e rth not this whichBeletlcogs at he mountains of Candy, and fad in Dire, 1.cap. 17. This is notvPapeete: ylicke, nor the faculties thereof q The Defcription. frequently vfed, and vulgarly knowne 1n fhops, y> Amarinds, which at this day area medicine to fome of the latet, as ed étiarins, and that by but e s, were not knowne to the antient Greek bicke ap, drawneas it may feemefrom thi the name of oxyphenice, that is, foure Dates nameis vnpropct, neither tre enor fruit being is, Indian Date: but this pe lation, Tamarindi, that cke Tamar beawordvied incompofition forfruits of any affin itiewith the Date,vnleffe the Arabi m,and Apple withvs inEnglith; forwe call cMalu e Latin the maw, e Greek he of many kindes, ast by the name of Pine Apple, and Oke Apafe, Okele the of ce efcen the Cone of the Pine, an dexcr erit be proper or no,if fo be thar ic wheth name, the for atter is nom. ple. But howfocuer itbe,it is denotedby it. Th-Malauar they what know we and others, ferue to diftinguith the thing from parts of the Eaft Indies. by which name itis kno wne in moft call ir pati : in Guzarat, _Ambili, 10. The Tamarind (faith he) Abgypti,cap. Plant. de Profper Alpinus, This tree is thus defctibed by thofe ofthe Myrtle, tree,with many boughes and Ieaues like } it carrieth white isa tree of thebigneffe of a Plum end: the oneat againft another, witha fingle ¢ manyftanding vpon one rib [one comes forth foure white and ‘very tree : out orw hole middle floures verylike thofe ofthe Orange andlarge > cods, at firft greene, but when theyare tipe ofan flender threds : after thefe come thicke feeds, ¢ rida blacke a thicke, hard, brow nih, cornered afh colour; and within thefe are contained haue bin broug! tout of they whither Egypt, of gardens v in fomefew ¢ alwaies follow the Sun, cide pulpe. Thefe tree ftrange qualitie that theleauc Arabia and Ethiopia. This plant haththis open out themfelues 4 themfelues,and and when it fets theyall contract they cl fely (hut vp at {uch force in this motion, that them againeandthere is obferued to be the rifine of the Sunthey forgoe plants (ifany be on the tree) andthen at be common Pp other Beypt'ar 3 5 Otic to leattes obferued this folding vp of Lifise Abrus, A) d Cp $n. Sesé tT mutch out of Alpinus. |