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Show — Cnarpatg. Tbeatrum Botanicum, Trise17 Tbe Theater of Plants. Monardus maketh mention of another Kinde of purging Pine kernells, growing in Hi/paniola, ee. within Lux tet pi-fuclr like cones but greater and longer, thinner fheld and blacker then the ufuall fort, whofe kernells being white and {weete,tempt divers to cate of them without fufpition ofevacuation, yet five or fix according to the abiliry of the patient,being given in wine doe purge ftrongly bothupwards and downewards, avoyding groffe humours e(pecially ; but beinga little cerrefied atthe fire they worke not fo violently or with {uch torments and gtipings: Cuae, ue A ra Indiana verfisolor, Tbe difcoloured fmall ladian Nut, Caras. Nux Faufelcum[uoin volucroer codem exempto, idle Kee ——“—C—C<W—S<“ Ze CXIIIL Penoabjos. The Apple bearing poyfonous Almond tree, Hever thewethin his defcription of America, that in fome parts thereof there gtowetha tree,the barke whereof is of a firange and mervailous fent,having leaves likeunto Purflane, very thick and alwayes } grecne it beareth fruite as greac aslarge fifed Apples, amd as round as an hand-ball which are not | to be eaten for they are poyfon: bat they containe within them fix other fruits, very like unto Almonds butflatterand broader, each lying ina feverall cell, whichare wonderfill profitable to the people,to heale their wounds bydarts or other wife in their warres, for outof thele frnits they preflea kind of red oyle with whichtheyare quickly cured. $$$$$, CuaPr. CXV. Cacao fiveCacavate. The Peare bearing wholfome Alsiondtree. , Enzo inhis defcription of e4merica, remembreth a tree growing in Nicarraene a Provincé of thé G Le)| Weft Indies omewhat like unto the laft defcribed, but beeznfe it is another fort you fhall havethe yD relation thereof as he fetteth it downe. It is the fruite of a meanefiled tree growing onely im warme exe) and wet.yet fhadowed places,and therefore mult be defended from the fight. of the Sunne by having atall tree planced ro the Sunne wardof it,which mutt be fitted and plathed thatit may be as an Arbor unto it,or elfe it will wither and perifh : the fruite doth fomewhat nearely in formerefemble a Peare,or Peare fafhioned Gourd, with a thicke fhell or ee Cacaofive Cacavate. rinde, and within lyeth an Almondlike frnitehalfe as big againeas a Wal- 1¢ Peatbearing wholfome Almond tree: nut, inclofedinahard round fhell, the kernell being blackifh withont,and brownifh afhcoloured veines within, butbicterifh and unpleafant, yet very fweete and pleafant to the Indians, After they have gatlicred the finite - Yy they breake the outer rinde andlay the in ner fruite upon Mats to dry in the TE)——— Sunne,untill the moifture within them be confumed, and then they keepe Betre, theribbes therein being firlt taken away, fomé put fundry Arece five AveVane Indica verficoloris other things tothem, as Lycium,Camphire, Lignum Aloes and Ambe} Senas obloagam Clufij: at grife according to their qualities that take delightin it, which ig Sind of long(mall Indian difcolowed Nuc? themboth for their meate and merchandife, for fhippes loaden with them arecarricd from Gratimaleto new Spaine, and other places thereabouts, and trucke with them for other commodities in flead of mony, andgive of them tothe poore in{fteadof an almes, A drinkelikewife the Indians make generally through all the countries of India, with the chiefe perfons moft, and with the inferiour in fome fort alfo, Garcins faith he diftilled a water from them being frefh, which he tiled with good fucceffe in all hot or chollericke fluxes of che belly, Areca five Avellane Indice verficoloris genus eblongum Clafij. A kind of fmall long difcovered Indian Nut of Clufins, thereof called Chocolate, well pleafing and accepted with the greateft a< mong them,who account nothing ‘of more efteeme ; but to the Chriftians, at the firlt it feemeth a wath ficter for Hogs, ‘yet by ufe even accepted by them alfo in the wantofbetter. Clafius in his feboliaupon the Fasfel of Garcias exhibiteth another kind of Areca or Fanfel,whofe kernells hath difcoloured veines there= in like a Nutmeg,or the former forc,and with a blacke covering over it, the chiefeft difference from the other confitting in being longer then the other. Lobel {uppofeth it may be thé kernell ofa nut of his Cuarp. CXV¥, Areca five Faufel feu Avellana Indiana verficolor, 2 | 5 LT FANG CHI BE yao Palma Pinus, The difcolouted {tall Indian Nut, His tree groweth great andvery tall, butthe wood thereof is fpongy and not eafie to breake, without any branches unto #great height, and rowardsthe toppe {preading manyfaire branches, and leaves thercon-greater and longer then the Coker Nut tree, the Aowersare white wichout fent, and grow manytogether on a long ftalke hanging downewards from the lower branches, the fruit following on every one,being longer but fmaller then the Nutmeg withall SSeS the outer rindés and fhells, and hath the outer rinde covered witha yellow Cotton like filke,the inner kernell being very like unto a Nutmeg, fomewhat round,and {mall at one end and flat at the other, with the like difcoloured vines therein, but withoutany heate in talte or fent, andis therefore held ro be cooling and drying :it growethin fundry places ofthe Indies moré or leffe plentiful in one or another place, and chiefly nearethe Seacoalts: With the twigs hereof thatare oftwofingers thickneffe the Natives afe to hunt the Crocodils 2s well in the water as on land, for if they can thruft thefe ftickes into their mouthes they are fure they Linfchoten alfo faith that there is another fort of Areca which is {maller,blacker and harder then the former, and called by the Natives Checaninas which canfethia lightneffe in the head, Clufins allo relateth ofanother as large as4 Walnut, withthe outer greene rinde,burthe fhell was hardand {mooth of a Chefnur colour, long and pointed.at both ends, flat on the one fide and banching out on the other, the kernell within being white arid fweete, Another was about a finger long, and as thickeas two, flattifh on the lower end.and of a rugged aflicolour, the upper end being fmooth and of a brownifh colour, feeMing like fome {mall ricke, covered with a thicke hard fhell,having a kernel! within it, Divers otherfruits are mentioned by Clufiw and many others wee have feene ourfelves, but bécanfe wee doe hot know any ufe of them of propertie in them, I rather forbeare theje relating, then ftufte che worke with up= profitable matter, it being growne fo voluminous already. i cannot breake them, becaufe they are fo lithye and {pongy, and thereby they doe fetaine and take them, itis called Faufel by the e4rabiazs, but (ome falfly Fi/fel, by the chiefe(t Indians Areca,by thole of Gazarate,and De- can Supari, ia Malabar Pac, in Malaca Pinan,in Conuchis Chacani s icis profitably ufed in all hor difeafes, to helpe the tooth ach, and to faften loofe tecthin the head orthe loofe gumimes : the Indians ufe this fruite abundantly cyther unripe to ftupefie their {eafes like to drankenneffe,or ripe, being mixed with the leaves of bel or etre SSS = SSS: = S3 rcray. é Aawaaaa 2 1643 |