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Show “< Cuap, 36. oe Theatrum Botanicum. Tamarinda, Prise 2, T RIBE 2, The Theater of Plants. Tamarind frucius cum jemsne, The Tamatinde or fower Beare tree, Cua P.36. Nox Benfive Glans unguentaria cum filiqua integra, aux cxempta feor(im. The oyly nur Ben with che whole cod,and the nuts taken outandfet by themfelyes, The cod aiad feedesof the Tamarinde tree, he received it from the faid Bellins ) was but a young plant, . of not abovea yeare or two’sgrowth. Theophraftus inde- {cribing the tree growengreat, faith it groweth crooked, and notftraight upright {preading ratherin breadth than in height, whofe leafe islike thofe of Mirtles, butlonger as by this figure that you here (ee you may well perceive,* andnothing like unto thofe of Tamariske, and that the\o comparifon of P/izy in the leaves like Turnfole, is not St much amiffe, for if they be both compared they will not be found muchto ciffer in the forme, | meane Tornefole \ % leaves, from the larger Mirtle leaves, but the difference() GX betwixtD io/corides and Theophraftus rifeth asit is thought from the errour in the Writers out of the coppie of Diofcorides ; the Greeke ward in Diofcorides and Theo. phraffus, being fo neare and like the one unto the other, that ic might eafily be miftaken, which are pvein Dio{eorides Myrica,five Tamarifews, co vesAfyrtusin Theow phraftus, yet itis more probable that there is no errour in the Text of Dio/corides, in that his comparifon ofthis tree unto Tamariske isnot unto the forme of the leaves, as Theophraftus his is, but unto the formeof the whole body, and growingthereof: the true defcription therefore hereof,as A/dinws hath moft acurately fet it downeis thus. The fir two orthree yearesfaith he, it {prang up and withered or perifhed downe every Winter to the roote,and rofeagainea frefh every Spring,butafter it became three or fonre yeare old, it grew more woddy and morelikely to abide without decaying: it rofe up yearely after the firlt, with one ftemme fhooting forth branches of winged leaves, or rather winged branchesof leaves, the barke be- gainft all breakings out ofthe[ skinne,J which come ofthe héate of bloud,ot ofafharp ‘ e orfalt water, water, ri ing bé2= — the flefh and the skinne,asitches, {cabbes; leprye, and the like, and helpeththofe that are Coubled sey the Jaundies, and the ftopping of the Spleene: it doth exceedin gly helpe to affwage the thirft; ifan ounce there= ofbe diffolved in faire water, anda little Sugar mixed therewit h, ot taken ofit felfe - fo}r the people of the hot countries, doe ufially eate thereof in their long travells to quench their thirft, which they were never able to indure eeitcareer themfelyesin the great heate, both ofthe Summer, and of thofe drie places, where no water isto be had. Itcoolethall inflammations, ions, |both ofthe D liver and ofthe fto;macke. If i = ane and helpeth the Gonorrhea,or running of thereine s: taken = a by wee and ee mittigateth the fits of frenfie with Burrage wae it weenpeie and madnefle : it doth fig all rheumes Paiattons, na Ci being taken with e fomeSuger and the water a of Maidenhanaire: ire: 1fa ifa {mall i pouder of Rubarbe be mixed together, it maketh {mall quantity of the pulpe del ici the the ftomacke and liver and cheer ft , ona is very yeffectua peerea effech lto helpe aee i to expell allihot or: burning ing Sots agues; and d procurea ag Sies taamgeeatn n appetite ite a= / ¢ ; . yaythe loathing ofmeate :, the leavesas well as the p u l vei vinegar, with manyof the Jvdians, Ethiopians, Arabians f and oth hey giv ene ee ae Wwormes; and both leaves Gale ee eand pulpefer ve s outwardly y_to p ¢ coole I all ithe iee hot Rial inflamma tions, e and ipo sllaee wheales; fort pitnples, and Cc. T ‘A i chs gat, whichfervefor ig cods of the Tamarindsare preferved all the purpofes before rea. Cuar, oe oe ing whitifhas the leaves are alfo, but they are compofed after fuch an order asnoother tree doth the like ; for the branches rife up with the ftemme orbody,divided into fandry other fmaller twigges no bigger than rufhes, fer with twoleaves at feverall fpaces diftant farre in funder, ending in {malllong pointslike haires, but have no eyes or buddesatthe feete ofthe leaves, asthe fmall brancheg of all other trees have, which fheweth that rhe whole branched ftalke or divided branch, isbut as one winged leafe: the leavesfirft falling away, leaving the branches bare, which then fhewlike unto ordinary or Spans Broome when it hath loft the leaves ; and after the leaves the ftalkes likewife perifh that held the leaves wholly, untothe very ftemme,and therefore fhewethto be but as one winged I€afe of a tree, as in the Ath, Wallnut, &c. the loweft of thefe leaves aie fomwhatround pointed like the herbe}Heliotropizm Sunturner, thofe on the middle of the branch morefharpe pointedlike unto Myrtle leaves,and the uppermoft {malleft fomewhat like unto Knotgraffe : ic hath not borneeither flowersorfruit in‘our Chri(tian countries as yet fo far as I can heare : the rooteis thicke,long, white and tuberousas it were, yet ending in fome {prayes being not much wooddy but rather flefhie and tender :but the nutsor fruits,fuch as have been brought over t6 us ericlofedin their htisks, as alfo out of their husks are expreffed here by themfelves:thatis,that many, ofthem growfingle in the husks & fometwo together, and that the nuts enclofed in every huske each byit felfe have their placebunched forth'where each of themlie, and {traightned betweene them both, the lowerand upperétid of the huske being finall and fharpe pointed, and about an handbreadth long, round and ofa darkeafhcolour on the outfide; nd fomewhat reddifh on’the infide, ofthe fubltance of leather, licher or ea'e to bow, tugged on the outlide with many long ftreakes inir, buc fmoothon the infide : the nuts themfelves are three fquare, for the moft part, covered with a whitith ‘foft and fomewhat tough wooddy fhell, wherein the white kernell lieth; which is not altogether infipid, but fomewhat fharpein tafte and oylie withall, caufing a kind of loathing‘ uponthe tafting almoft ready to provoke vomiting ; out of which is preffed an oyle as Diofcorides anid Galen affirme) like as is preffed out of Almonds ; and not from the fhells or husks as fome formerly fappofed, for it is commonly knowne to many here in Our owne land,and to myfelfe alfo, who havepreffed as good oyle outofthe kertiellé of the nutts; as any hath beene broughtfrom be- XXXVI, Nux Ben five Glans ungnentaria, The oyly Nut Ben. : | His oyly Nut Ben hath undergone muchcontroverfie and ietie that have antiently written thereof, as namely Dio/c oredes Theopbrafius we ole — yea Diofcorides faith that the tree is like unto. Tamaris ke, Theophraffis faithie a . Fa; Mirtle leaves, Pliny faith like unto the leaves Tike ar of Heliotropium or Turnefole : bu atl epeonl {jy pofe this controverfie and endthis contrarietie betweene them,I will fhow yotuhera theeeastehBie bids 4 aRees thereof, fuch as Dottor Tobias Aldinus the Cardinall Farnefiys his Phifition at versa elect deepcs Nsaed: (andfn therehret ro his endin Candiescoraine wis=e ‘ ell growen, for that which Howoriys Bellus -a famons Phifition, living long in Were yf 2 lecary In Kerona,whoin ipti hames" ofthofea plants that growupon Mount Baldus,which he fet forth bisu(elGtach iekeca ae hesae ; he yond feas : and therefore Theophraffus was herein much miftakén, or at leaft mifinformed, that faid the oyle that ferved for fweeteoyles and ointments, was drawne from the huskes and fhells and not from the Nurts themfelves, and Pliny alfo whofaith the famedoth efré ‘in that; although ‘he faith that an oyle is drawenont ofthe nuts, whichthe Phyfitions doe ufe : for the oyle to bothufes is one and the fame, The Place. ; Thefe trées growin Syria, Arabia, ~Lthiopiaand India, and Mtthough fomefay in Egypr'alfo, yet t chinké Prof per Alpinss, who was curious to fet downe all'thé tare trees, and plants tinknowne in Fta/y that grew there, would have givenus fome knowledge thereof, among other Egyptian plants, if they had beene there in his time, f The Time! We havéas I fayd beforé, no knowledge of the time offlowring hereof, The Names," Teis called in Greeke by Dio/corides, Galen aidothers BannrG bupelin, Balanus Myrepfica, thatis Glans Vas : guentariag |