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Show Cwar.42, -Fbeatrum Botanicum, Trrpe17 The Theater ofPlants. Tripe17, AY Frattus integer NuacisIndice Cocus dius, ETO. ay The whole Cokar Nut as itis caken froma the tree * thie Indian kinde to|have al fome other,whetherthé likeor rio is not to be determ inedfight;proper- ties ofthis Indian Spikenard arethefe: Te isofan heating and drying quality,provoking Htinesand andboth thereds-and whites inWomen’: <itt#keth awaythe foathing to meate,and the gnawing offlayitaefakes, ufusily called che heart-burningjit conduceth ‘helpe to {wellings, ro the ftoneinthekidneyes, and theftomacke co the Kings Cua P.42, Alana Nux Indica interior, ‘The inyyard Cokar Nut with chehard blacke fiiell thereon; Dr WEE aaaMetra ee” EE:eeLes oa Aw ee oo vieddare aemanate by the Ancients, bur becaufeI would nor makea Chilieel chroot, Sama ings, nee serhavingftedie: declare properties operties hereofat large in her i the 4a.Chapteroft he firft . Ate LH Evill:che decottion helpeth theinflammatiorisofthe mother ifthey fir therein : it helpeth to bring haire on thebairecyelids': itis not onely an ingredient ito the two famous Antidotes, 7heriaca Andromachi, and Mi. 2 srre Indians doe either bore holes thercin at certaine diftances,and knocke {trong pegs intothem -_ icke out (o-much as may ferve for footing to ger up intothe tree, togather the juyce or liquoura _ te) or faltem ropes with nayles round about thetree at {paces which ferve as {teppes to goe up into-) = —_— the top fpread fundry great armes which bowe themfelves almoft round, with large leaves = themlike _ Date treebutgreater, whofe middle ribbe is Very great,abiding alwayes greene,and with fruite : os oe penning aworher?from betweene the lower boughes nee ae lundry flowerson them like unto thoiofthe Chefnne tree comeforth {maller (talkes hanging : after which facceed large greac : ree a Tuite OF nuts,ten oF twelve,or fometimes twenty thercon together, as big as onts head,or asa {mall cane a a)pean but. little fmaller at theend, covered with s hard cough darke afh-coloured barke, and “S“1- - _ ce wonddy brownith fhell, but blacke being polithed, che head or toppe thereof -sts a mers fembling the nofe andeyes ofa Monckey, betweenehavingat which outer barke andthis thell, st 7 = f= grofle threds of haires,or fach like ftuffe, whereofi s made cordage, {tronger and more durabic ee ed i ST ofhempe; within the wooddy fhell,ther e is a white kernell,cléaving clofe to the i cof, ofthe thickeneffe ofones finger or thumbe,or thinner,as fweete and pleafarit as an Almond while itis frefh, havingin the middle thereofa Pint,ewo or three, of clearc dainty (weet water, as pleatant as milke, Navola tadica recemso/a. A fall Indian Nur many growing rogethers but as it growetheither tobe overripejor being kept to be older,fo muchleffe pleafant willthis liquour be, and cither grow foweror thicke bytime.and be quite {pent and con{umed, ithath beene ob- + Nucela Indica alter. j A eS tactaete called Seo ee ferved that fometimes there will be floting in this liquoura {mall Iumpeorball,as cleere asa pearle, and very {weetin talte; whichis asthe {prour, which have fprung forth a ttalke rifing through one ofthe holes at the head, and rifing two palmes above it hath fhor forth fibres for rootes. The name andufes whereuntothistree, and the frnite, and thofe thingsthat are made thereofferve, are thefe, Thetree it felfe is called generally by the Indians AZaro, in ALalaca Trican+ butin Malabar Tengamaran, by Avices Giauli al bend, which is Nua: Indica,by Serapioand Rhafis, as Garcias faith, Iarel= mare, yet that word is not found faith C/ufims in our Bookes, but Ne- regil:the Latines call it Palma Indica @ Coccifera, todiltinguifh it — oe NSSe SN RN Palma NuxCokar Indies Moe Cocosoe The vil Sndian forens, HS The ordinary Indian Cokar Nut. @p Here cannot be & b found i in the world, i. a tree that hath (0 ma my mecefiary fis ies for mens ufes betad fromit,as this Coltar Nut : the tree groweth to be huge great commodititi and vafte, whofe body or ftem iscovered witha fmooth barke, bare ornaked without any branchto a greatheight (for which = SVsSSSSSS 3. Palma five Nux Indica vulgarsferens Cocos, LRSSS Cuarp. XLIL from the Palma Daflylifera, the timber whereofisnot {pongy or like the Fern/as as Garcras{aith, bur folide and firme, blacke and fhining like the Wallnuttree, fit for building of houfes or fhips, and other things,as Garciashimfelfe faith a little after, this tree faith Garcias is of two forts (or ratheras ! thinke kept fortwoufes) the one tobearefrnite, the other to extract the liquouriffuing thereout, whenthebranches arectit, otf when it isbored and received into Gourdes,orott xe things tyed thereto, which liquour they call Sura, and !ike trot Wine in fhew, but intafte likenew orfweete wine whicht yled is called Orraqua,and being de- f ftilled is made like unto 44#4 vite, which they ufe to the {ame purpofe that we doe ours, and will burné liké it, andiscalled Fla, and being fer into the Sunne will become go inegar, but that whichrunnethlaft being faffered to abide in the Sunne untill it grow hard,or boyled to the hardneffe will be Sugar, which theycall Iagra, Thebranches faith Garcias ( but Ferdinandus Lopesfaich thelea recalled Olla,and ferve as umbrels to keepe ¢, and in fiich like leaves, fairh he, was writeen the firft Letter chat the King of Calecns fent te , upon the Portugals firlt arrivallinco his Country, they ferve likewile to cover bonfes, to be ed fromraine, the frnite is called by the India: nerally Ware/, which is common both with the Per, and Arabians, butin Atalabar Tenga, and while itis greene and not ripe Eleni, the Portugals callit Coguo,that isa Monckey,of the likenes of a Monkeys face, and from thence hath rifen the word Cocws or ra~ ther Cogs swhich the three holes reprefent,and.at Goa Lanha, of the hairy ltoffe or hardes which is next the outer barke of this Nut, called by the Indians Cairo,are made not only Cordage and Tackle for thips,bur cawking Quite, whichis better to cawke fhips thenanyother ftuffe, andbeing beaten, the finer ftuffe is made into girdles and cawles for women.( cloathes al{o, but not any fine fluffer cloath like any fine linnen ) both of the meaner and better fort l as C/nfiue faith he faw and obferved, but as Garcias faith, while this Nut is young it hath atender barke which maybe eaten, andtaftechlike an Ar oke sof the browne hardinner (hell, being pol- lifhed and made blacke and fhining.is not onely made cups,to drinke in, ferin filveror other metcall, which made Sepulveda to drawthe Portugalls to thinke that it doth helpe thofe that have thePalfie to drinke out of them, but Garcias faith it hathno likelihood: but being burned into coales ferve the Gold {mithes for their ufes: who goe 2 s crying for worke, and carrying fome neceflary togles for the purpofé with them; of the inner kernell,whichishollow, cleaving falt to the infide of the hard wooddy fhell, which is an inch or twoor leffe thicke, firme andfaft, rafting fweer like an Allmond,they make breadefpecially while it is freth,forthefrefh- erthe Nuts are, the {weeter will the meate thereof be, and doth nourifh much, being good for macilent bodice, and toencreafe {perme and Venery, andis good tolenefic the harfhneffe of the throate, and the hoarfeneffeof Yvvvvv3 ths |
