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Show 1612 An'Appendix to Knother kinde of this was afterwards found in searseen a the Ifland of S.Iohn de Puerto rico Deere tot} former: it is alfo like the laft deferibed, but altogether leffe, being almott without fmelling ftrongersand being bitteter than the former swhich and left,rhis is powmatrix in vie oraih, the wondrous effets it is called Lignum fanétum . neither without defert, being (experience * 0 Cnpa Guayave arboris rammed. The Orange-Bay. teftimonie) it excells the other: yet boththeir faculties are admirable in curing the Fretth dit eafe, and thetéfore the water The wood which is now in-vfe with vgis ofa large tree, whofe woodis very heauy,follid, and g feene hath been wholly without matrix rm pith;and commonlyit is ofa darke browaith colou r, fomewhat inclining to yellowshauingg tin ofwhite ingirting it next of a golden colour when theybe ripe, with their inner pulpe White, and fometinies red ; diuided(: it hatlrfoure cells,wherein lie the tothe barke’;1 haue obferued tree whale diametre hath becn two foot and)a.quarterjto haue had asilittle or leffe ofthis whitea wood one whofe diameter wasthirteene inches; and this which was thirteene inches had only a white as circle about it ofoneinchin bredth; Athinke the yongerthe tree is, the bigger the whitecircle is : nifh leauing aquicke and biting tafte in the deco&ion, as alfathe beft woodis denfe, heauy, brow. his fmell and colour, The barke of this woodis.alfo denfe.and heauy, ofa hard fubftance and yellowith colour within, but rough and greenith, orelfegrayith without, and of fomewhat bitteti~h tafte. Thus-muchforthe de. fstiprion of the wood and his barke,, Now, Jet me fay a fomewhat bricfely ofthe temperature'and qualities, feeds, like thofe ofthe Medlers, very hard, of abrownifhcolour,wholly ftony,withourkernell and tafte. The frit is vfually eaten, therinde being A firft taken off; it is plealing to the palate, wholefome and/cafieof concodion 3 being 8reene itis goodin fluxes ofthe belly, fort powerfully ‘bindes and ouer,/or throughly ripe it loofeth the belly; bucbetweene both, that iris neither too greene, nor Ouer-ripe, if tofted, itis godd both for foundand ficke. for fo handledit is wholefommer,and ofa more, pleafing tafté; that-alfois the better whichys gathered from domefticke aad hut. bandedtrees. ‘The Indians profitably bathe their fwolnelegges in-the decoction of the leaues , and bythe fametheyfree the {pleene from obftruétion.’ Thefruit feemes to be cold, whetefore they.giue it rofted to fuch as arein feuets. Itgrowes commonlyin all the Thetemperature andVertues, Itis indged to be hot and dry in thefecond degree: it hatha drying,attenuating,diffoluingand clenfingfacultie, as alfo to moue fweat,and refit contagion and putrefa@ion, the French Poxes, and it is the moft antient and powerf ull antido te thatis yet knows againitthat ade thereof, becaufe theyarewel enough eyare aboundantly fet downebyafl thofe that haue treated ofthat difeafe, Italfo conduceth tothe cure ofthe dropfie, Afthma, pilepfie, the difeafes of the bladder and reines, paines of the ioints, fatulences, crudities, and Elaftly all chronical].difeafes proceeding gs poicane moift catifes ; for it oftentimes workes fingulareffe &s whereas other medicineslittle preuai Ce x It dothalfo open the obftru@ions of the liver and {pleene, warmes and comforts the ftomac ke and all the intrals, and helpsto free them of any groffe vifcous matter which maybe apr to breed difeafes in them, id VVeft Indies. Thus much Mexardys, Cua. 21. Of the (orall tree. | The Defcription, He fame laft mentioned Simon de Touar a learned andprimePhyfition of Ciuill fent « Visi three or foure branches ofthis tree, from whencehe framedthishiftory and figure. He writ = Oe Of the Guayana, or Orange-Bay. q The Defcription, Imon dé Towar {ent Clufius a branch ofthe tree which the Spania rdscall Guayauas,fromwhich he drewthis figure, and thus defcribesir. This branch( Clufius) whofe vpper part together with the fruit I caufed tobe drawne, was fome foot faith long, foure {quare, alternately ferwith OFete eeeben anid inches Jong, and one and ahalfeor two broad softhe forme 1es, > 4 welling rib running alongft the lowerfide, with veins running obliquely from thenceto the fides, of an ath or gtayifh colour beneath, bur {mooth aboue, with the veities leffe appearing ; which broken,thoughold,yc t retained the {mell ofBay leaues,and allo after fome fort the tafte: the fruit was {mooth, yet fhriucl ed, becaufe peraduenture it was varipe, ofthe bionefleofa {mall apple, longish, blackifh ontheout fide likea ripe plum, butwithin fall ofa teddith pulpe, ofan acide tafte ; and in the middle were many whitith feeds of the bignefleof Milletorthofe that arein Figs, _ Neslas Monardus (ashe is turned into Latine by } thus giues vs the hiftorie ofGuajass in his fixty fourth Chapter. It is a tree, faith he,ofClufivs an indifferent bigneffe, and hath {preading branches, the leafe of the Bay, and a whitefloure, like that of that it is accountedas aweed, for it {poile s the grafle of many pattures, with the coo like to ourapples,6fthe bigneffe of thofe the toturne into bowles or thellike, andall that I haue yet Knowne toall to whomthis knowledge belongs, andth 1613, andwell fmelling , ireafily growes,wherefoeuer it be fowne,and fo {preds and creepes Spaniards call Camuefassexecn at the firft,and ee difeafe, I forbeare to f;pecifie any particular medicine/m Ee much {preading as brambles do, the fruit is Or decotion of both of them are drunke,eithermixed tosether. ie A uerally, both for the cure ofthe forementioned difeafe,as alfoapaint divers otheratfeas has muchfor 1onardys hisdefeription. the Hittory ofPlants. the Orange, yet fomewhat bigs (faith Cluf.) that this tree grewin his garden, {prung vp of feeds fent from America,which had the tame of Corall impofed on them,by reafonthe floures werelike Corall,but hedid os fet downe there fhape , writing onely this in his letter: That he had two little thrubs, which hadborne floures,and that the greater of thembore alfo codsfull of large beanes, but inthe extreme Winter, whichthey had the yeere before, he loft nor onely that tree, and others {prungvp of Indianfeed, but alfomany otherplants.. Nowfecing that/thistree.carries coddes, I coniecture the floures Were in forme not vnlike to thofe of Peafe, or of the tree called Arbor ude, but of another coloyr,towit,red like Corall, efpecially fecing that in the catalogueofhis garden which hee fent me the yeere before, he had writ chus | Arbor l db adiéta Coral, ob eis Harem fimilomé arallo ser that is, An Indiantree called Corrall, by reafonof the Hourelike to Corrall, whofedeaucs ar tylikethofe of the Arbor ude, but this hath thornes, which that wants. ] And ver ly ches whichhe fent (for hewrit he fent the branches with the leaue y but th K Ce picogh aut fome twice or thrice as bigge) had leaues not much valike thof of Arbor i sie neni Ag thorter foorftalke and growing one againtt another, with afin ene gs ane me pine a pe Which was here and there fet with fharpeand crooked prickles ; but whether the é Deans are °nely the ftalkes of the Jeaues, or perfect branches, doubt, becaule ai Cate fs es ba teaues apiece ; I could cafily perfuade my felfe, that they were ensit fe ea the wpper ps ? where itfecried ended inone leafe; and the lower end of one among the refk, yer pile. ie vee tewto the boug waa 3 g there was pone wiicreor Vuuuu 4 HC ure, § } ferlo a |