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Show @ T ripe 17 ‘LheatrumBotanicum. he Txise17, The Theater ofPlants. Cua P.129, CuarOxXxViIl. Cuap, CXXIX, Prunainfana que Nacésinfane a Clufiodicuntur, Mad Indian Plums or Nuts, Beretinus fruéius. The Beretine Ackorne. keth mention thathe obtained fome ea Lufius inhis fecond booke ofExoticks and feventéenth Chapter,ma world ; of chefe fraites, from thofe that accompanied Sir Francia‘D? ake in his Circumnavigation of the ( SA returning in the yeare 15 80. by the meanesof fome of his friends here s ianeenitee Mafter Garthand Malter Aforgan, which wereaffirmed to be poe |TheBeretine Acorn. in fome Mlands{whereinto they put both fer fruit and viétuall Aanding in ie leo both) from verygréar and tall trees bigger then Oakes,whofe leaves ae ikeunto Bayleavessnot dented atall about the edgesbut thicke and fhining + the fruit see like the Ackornesof the Ilex or evergreene Oake, bue without any ape faith he enquired thercofof omeof them, whofe outer rinde was thinne “ : fan afhcolonr, and fomeblackifh, the inner kernell being fomewhat long _ : ¥ . withontany manifeft tafte within but covered with a thinne skinne, - ich ¢ 2 found good to be eaten without any harmefollowing, and on their ses being taughtby the Ilandersthey boyled them like Pulfe or Peafe, cr Q ~ them or beate them to pouther and boiled them like Rice or ‘Wheat, —_* ecame : pultageandfo eate them for hunger : yet afterwards they found the’ : ¢ — fruit to gtowin the Iflands ofthe Zolzccas as they affirmed : Bat — Bd at orher propertie they were indued, neyther they nor any other hath manifelted to any thar I know. SS? His Indian fruit mentioned by Clufiu in {econd booke of Exoticks, page 53. ands4. isthusre. Be lated by him, The Datch aftermuch wandring in the unknowne Seas fell by chance: into 4 certaine «) Bay, {cituate in 11.degrees 45 .minuts of Northerly Latitude where they foundcertaine trees ag big as Cherry trees, with long and narrow leaveslike Peach leaves, whofefrui they aw the Monkies ‘ there eating,wherupondivers of them gathered fome and eate them,whichtswere fully round, grow ing for the molt part fingly cachuponits ftalke, and fometimes 5 oY 3 two together, being about two inches or not mich more either #4 infos Ai Bie infare a Ctufio dicuntar. longwife or round, witha firme buit not very thicke fhell, brow- nifh on the outfide and not very {mooth,but {mooth within, and of abrighter colour, containing a certaine fruit within fomewhatlike untoablacke Sloe, both for forme and fize, f{potted with fomewhat a large white {pot at the bottome whereie ftood upon the Ralke, having a fone under that Plum which Wwasgrayifh andhard, and a kernell with ir, thofe perfons whichhadeaten of thefe Plums felt no harme, but fome of the company {teeping both tones and kernells, and boyling and eating of them fell into divers diftemperattires, according to each MonaeSAP aee mans feverall humour,one thought his Cabin was made a Brew- houfe, and bad rake away the woman that was there : another called his Mates together, asking them if they would buyhis fifh, whereofhe had yarietie’: another lying in his Cabin com- Cuarp, CXXVIII. Viebebsfou, The Indian Hony tree. MENF7-vet maketh mentionofthis tree amonghis other American fingularities to bé very tall,fpreading thé Eos branchesfo uniformely,that it isa great Reg tS pleafure to behold, in that they feeme SS@% tq difpoted by art and not by nature, having leaves on themlike to Coleworte,(which Ibeleeve'is miftaken, the figure not expreffing fueh a forme) and fruit of a footlong. In the 1649 ts Vhebchsfou. The Indian Hony tree. = plained that his flefh was torne from hisbones, anothe cryedout lotidly that they were building a great thip in his Cabin; another in his Cabin broke foure or fiveC difhes,faying that many men were comming to take away his Cabin from him, another calling to the Mailter ofthe fhippefaid , doe ysenot fee the Divell fitting in the Sterne catching Fifh; another fayd that he {aw the Anchors in the bottome ofthe Sea through the bulke of theShippe ; the Mafters fonne faid to his father, O myfather I fee a humber of fittle men running upon your nofe, butafter theyhad flepr all thefe imaginations vanifhed, yet fome of them flept fora day and a halfe; and fome two whole dayes before they waked,and fore therebywe re troubled with the laske 3 many other faticies fellamong the reft which were too long.to recite ; butamong themall faith he as it Were in fcorne among the reft there was an Englith mandiftra@ed, wholooking upward faid he faw the heavens, open and cryed with a lond voyce,O LordI will willingly follow thee, and with divers other geftures moved the company to laughe ter, C/afivs fheweththat in che {ame table with thef Plums or Nuts an Hafell nut which made no noyfe of any kernell cherein,and knew heefet another {mall Nut not mach unlike mot whetherit had any cup to hold it asan Acknornehathor no, hollow parts of this tree above other, the Bees Cuap, dog make their Hony and Wax, whereof the naturals make much account,for with itthey {ca- CXXX, Mamoera mas & femina, The male and female Dugge tree, fon their foode made of: roots,&c..' Vinto this treé reforteth familiarly a-céftaine bsaft fomewhat like a Cat,but ofa browne colour,called by He formeof thefe twoforts‘of tres are them Heyrat that isthe Hony beaft to feed onthe the honey,whichit carefully pulleth out with the feere withont hurting the Bees or being {tung or burtbytheme = SNeTTS SSMY Wiis SM both alike, notdiffering the one from the other, but in this that the male beareth nobloffomes, bur frnire like unto aftnallPompion manygrowing together towards thetoppe out of the body ofthe tree which hath no armes of branches but onely large broad leaves muchlike unto the Plane tree or Mapletree leafe, cach {tanding on a very long ftalke ¢ the trunke or ftocke of the tree is neate two foot thicke, and about nine foore high; the flowers are of a pale yellowcolour like unto Elder bloffomes whichferve tonoufe, the fruit is round and flefhy, yellowith when itis ripe,and ferving them to loo-~ fen che belly when theyare eaten and conreiné’with- in them manyround blacke fhining grainesas bigge as Peafe which likewife are put toro ufe withthém. The propertie of thefe trees is faid to be, thar- unleffe the male kinde bee planted to grow neare the female it will beare no fruit all; of which nature-akinde of Date ttee isfaidtobealfo, This tree growerhin that part of Brafill thatthe Porsugalls called Bayaide todes fos Santtes, Mamocra mas &f4ming, The male Duggetree. |