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Show Cu ars55 Fheatram Botanicum. RIBE 17, “Trines7 The Theater ofPlants, Guar,56. ©.BingiberforteBrofiten]s xigra “i,0eee Brafill Ginger with a blacke rootes CraPp. LV. +,rafe ¢ a2 = 7 Zeloaria & Zerambeth, = a ce Servyall: He Setwall that we have uftally inour fhops; doth notalwayes bold one uniforime facéand fathion butdivers, for fome isthicke and fhort, others more long and round, fome greatjothers {mallforne kA whole, others broken, asic isuftallin all thingsalmoft, ‘either forraigne or domefticke; and yer the féverall varieties offormes; being of fo little difference:cannot make: them {everall thingé,-e4 * {pecially fecing their tafte and quality is all one,or but folittle differing that any judicions may fooné determine thecontroverfie. Garcias ab Orta diftinguifheth berweene Zedoaria and \Zersmbet, making them to @ 9 betwo divers things and therefore {peaketlvof them in twofeverall'Chapters,wherein as it feemeth he maketh Zedearia robe the Geiduar of -Avices, which yethe faith Avicen knew not, becaufeit groweth in the Chixe/es Country, and.is very rare.to be feene or had, but from {uch vagabond Indians,called Togmes, as travaile begging throughall thofe Countries;’ which Geidwar ‘or Gedwar, .as Garcias faith is ofthe bignefle of an Ackorne, and neere unto the fame forme, weighing about halfe an ) ounce, and.ofacieere colour, butClufiss giveth us Zedorte longe e rotunde genuina effigies itemque Cot Geidwar the defcription and figure ofita little larger; ‘which aghe faith he had from Pona of Verona, and compa- Atabum. The oe Rant of eo done,snlgH Zeboariay and of the drablans Geid-var: reththem tothe {maller rootes of AsPhodill, or the rootes of Anthora of anafh-colour op: the outfide; and yellowifh withia, and ofan hor fharpe'tafte, Zedo- Lingiber Orientale forefesns: The figure of the orientall Ginger with sriais called Zarumbet by Serapio, -and'faiththcy are the Somers rooteslike unto the round Ariftolochia; but of the colour andtafteiof Ginger, and brongitfrom Chinas Avicen faith that Zedariais like untoxAriftolochia,but leffer, and afterwards fai th,that itis likely to be:Geis dar or Algeiduars.and giveth unto it the fame qualitiésthat Serapiodothto his Zedsaria dr Zerumber: Rbafis maketh Zedoria an d Zerumbet all one,and Aze- faes al{ofeemeth to agreeunto.them, but differ eth onely inadegretof heate ; fo that you may’ plainely fee chat all thefé forts :are made by thefeAuthoursto WEA | le Ss beoflittle or nd differences: and fo they feeme unto ime;'’as they havealfo to’ others before me, who have asThavedone,! feene all thefe diverfities- of forme come overtogether unto. us: Lugdauenfis fertech downe verytmely the figure of Zedoaria and Zerum= bet, as they grow together, the longer peeces joy- fetteth forth the figuté ofGinger ab it prew he faith with Adrian Mewleneeve in the Prince ALanritiue a Naffanhis Garden, having fundry ftalkes abouta fiitig to the round like the! 4/phodill toores,’ to one rotind head. foote high, fhewinglike unto a Reed new {prung up, and condemneth that old figure as falfe,that wasfor- Garcias ab Orte {aith, that Zerumbee (or Zerumba,although heamakeththem differing as I faid,in one Chapter, yctalloneinthenext ) grows eth plentifally wild in WWalavar Calecut, and Canawor, andisalf{o planted by divers in fundry places,calling it wild Ginger, thofe of Surrat, Decan, and Ca» sara callit Chachoranx, and thofe of Afalavar Sua, and hath leaves like unto Ginger but greater, longer, and broader..: There have beené fome that have ; 34) here i — thoneht Zedoaria tobefome of thekindes of Cojfws: that Dio/coridesdefcribeth, becaufe it agreeth in many things therewith, Zedoaria being not {pécified by him, or the auncient Greckes, and indeed both formeand quality comming foneere may caufe it well to be accepted as the {ubftirute thereof. All thefe forts as they are made divers by the writers of them are faid by them to be effe@uall againtt poy{onsof all forts,and venomes of virulent creatures, and we have found them of muchufe and profit in the peltilence and other contagious difeafes, as alfo to warme a cold Rumacke, and to expell winde mervailoufly,to repreffe vomitings, to dry up and confame:catarrhes and defluxions of theume; to diffolve oe Im- poftumes of the matrix, and to {tay the loofeneffe of the belly, andisalfo very powerfull to {tay or difperfe the unfavoury belchingsof thofe fpirits thar Garlicke,Onions,&c.or wine have canfed, merly accounted the right, which had leaves of the fafhion of anIrés or Flowerdeluce, which contrarieties are as fome may thinke, hardly to be reconciled, yet I will endeavour to make both thefe affertions to be true although they feeme fo muchto vary, thus: We have two forts ofGinger brought tintous,plainély differing in the fabftance and colourof the rootes, Dut not in the forme, faving that the one is moreflender whichis the blacker,then the white, for the one is white within and cuttethfoft, whichis the Ginger whollyin ufe for meates and medicines with us, the other is hard and almoft wooddy, and ctutteth blackith within, fo that it is verylikely that the one fott taketo be the Eaft Indie fort; with the fofe wh white roote, hath Flagge-like leaves, and hath beené feenein ower in Germany, as Emanuel Zwerts hath ferout the figure (and I here unto you, and the feed veffellalfo, with the fed not much unlike that Cuap, LVI, Zingiber, Ginger, Baus Inger as Garcias faith growethin all the Countries of thé Eaft Indies, either planted by thé rooté or Sfowneoffeed, (the roote faith an Englifs rare craveller,. {preadeth inthe ground,andhathleaveslike 8 wild Garlike, which they cucevery fortnight,toputinto their brothes and meates:) It groweth faith *S" he, withleaves like the water Flagge,or Corne Flagge, and notlike the Reed,thusfaith he, and fo faith tMonardus alfo, but Acofta faith that it hath leaves verylike to the greater forts of Miller, Jobs teares, and with athicke ftalke like Afphodill leayesthereon, clofe to the ftalke, fo thatit feemeth to be a {mall Reed, Lee ecreth of 2 - vith thistitle Zinxiber flore albo folio Iri- 4. The other roote that is more flender and blacke, yetofthe fame fafhion, may be that which bearech Reéd-like leaves, as Zobel hath fet ir forth, rather to bé preferved then for ordinaryufe with us, and which a8 I thinke is the AZechinum of Lobel, or Zingiber fifcum whereof he giveth the figure of 2 more excellent fort, that was joynted like Doronicum parts, andthérefore ace rit dby Ponatobe the true Doronicum, as is fhewed before in this worke,in the Chapter of Doyonicam, and itfrom Braff Sothat the matter being thus reconciled, andeach of them: forted as they fhould be, lee ew you that both forts are preferved while theyare frefh and grecne, and the blacke forr.as-well alfo, af hath beene dryed,by new fteeping it, and boyling ro-make itcender, bur I cannot findé that the white fore fo well ferve to be preferwed after ithath beene dryed, bur isthe belt being, preferved greene, fich asthe vsand Bengala Ginger is, The properties of Ginger 1s to warme a cold tomacke, dnd tohelpe difgeftion, to diffolve |