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Show CuHaPr.135> T beatrum Botanicume Achanaca Theveti. The Ethiopian vice Gnajacum. rp CXXXYV, sea Treveti. Theblacke Moores Guajactim. He Ethiopians on bothfides of the RiN ver _ 7. _TheTheaterofPlants,Ganra 37, TRIBE17. Sexaga,neare unto Cépe verd as 1663 ofan hottate but neither like Cinamon nor Pepper, and this Cortex Winteranus ie 2 re apes namon,notcafte into rowles or hollow pipes like it,and tafting mach guides, ciaetcon Cle lour is of a duskie brownein moft,comming neareft unto Cinamon, I thought gooda little to anisiad | this matter here, becanfe I finde many pofleffed fo ftrongly wich that errour that Canells alba is Corte Wibterani thatall may fee ho theiropinion is, This barke might feeme tobe thar whereof Afonardiva faith he had a peece Bergo anApothecaty;but that his had a more-excellent {miell and ratte; excelling that of the fro: i Be sie Nur pe 5) : ap eo fant as Cinamon,and more cordiall, whichis not found in thisbarke of Winter,’ CMonardus likesvik ate Thevet {aith,doe abound withthe Ve- mention of another thicke barke which was taken from a tree as great asan Elme and like jn fbrile. are fearfe in any other part of the Welt Indies,then neare the Rivers fides about!25. leagues diftant id cere hotfaith he above the fecond degreesthe Indians ufé to put it up into their noftriils, the fae pourher : sf eet te whenthey are troubled with rheumies and defluxioris:ftom the braines; or withvother paines in th ( Ba: for ie plentifully draweth downe humors wherebytheyfinde cafe, i > nereous difeafe, which holdeth them chiefly in the privie members. which in menis called 4/aé,inwomen 4/abates, the di- feafe it felfe Borozail or Zail : but by the skill of the Phifitions of whom they have many, and skil- fullin their profeffion ealled Biarins, they have found out growing with chem an herbe of aflured helpe and remedy therefore, which groweth up witha great ftalke asbigge as a mans legge, and manygreat leaves thereon, cut in or jagged on both edges, fomewhat refembling aColewort leafe, butnothing {o thicke eythet in the. leafe or middle ribbe and double pointed at the ende, {rom among whom groweththe fruit, of the bigneffe of an egge a See Cuap. CXXXVIL Corn arbor, Thecoftive or binding tree, yy T and of a yellow colour which they call A/fard, His tree is fomewhat like untoa dwarfe Orrenge tree both for forme andleafe, but havin a thick middle ribbe and eight or nine other {maller ones running to the fides: the foweris velo W wih. vik out fent,the barke of the roote onely isinufe whichis of a pale greene co lour, and being broken y yeeldeth much milke,which is fomewhat clammy, having little tafte,bue fome bitterne m drying then cooling, The juice or milke,of the barke of the rootes hereof,dlthough fle; unol& isfate the decoétion of this herbe: above all others, although they nfe divers is of ‘fafficient validitie to muchufed by the natives of Chinas lapan, Malaca and Bengala as well as Chriffians in all wine of Fosse “ a Laskes comming from what caufe foever.”i Tholefe Of Canarin in calli callit Corn, t ar (uroan } and the Brachmsenes Cara. % rt, they of Malabar Caroand Cro Gapala, cure it, forthey have no other Gnuajacum for their helpe,and therefore ute this in ftead thereof. Se Se aii ws es Cuap, Pavate, CXXXVIIT. Another Coftive tree. ne othertree manies tempat sane cobs tad then the lat, and called Pavatein Afalabar is there Cuar. CXXXVI. Wistcronus cortex. Captaine Winters Cinamon: yA ptaine Wiliam Winter chat in a fhippe by himfelfe accompanied Sir Francie Drake in part of his voy= age over the whole world, but left him atthe Straights of Nagellos returning from thence homeinto England againé in the yeare 1579. inthe parts thereabouts’ cur downe certaine trees, whofebarke was fomewhat like o the thicker fort of Cinamon, bothfor fubftance d colonr,yet for the moft part thicker, and fome of it of an afh colour, and fome brownith on the outfide and rugged like Elme barke,fome of it having chinkes or riftes on the infide, and fome {mooth and firme of a {mell not unpleafant,but ofa very fhapetalte like manyfpices together, heating the mouth more then Pepper; the leafe of the tree is of a whitifh greene, notunlike the Afpen leafe, the berries grow inclufters like the Hawtkorne,with divers feedes in each of them. They at the nrft knew not of any properties therein, and therefore boyled fome of itin hony, to makeit che more pleafant to be taken.and dryed orher fomeand madeit into pouther, putting. it in flead of Cinamonin their meats: but afterwards they found it to be fingular good againftthe Scurvey, for divers inthe thippe being troubled with that difeafe found remedy thereby in ufing ira while, Some of our company. of Apothecaries, and thofe not of the meaneft doeufe tocall the Canela alba mentioned here before Cortex VVinterasi, and have ufeditin their difpen{ation of Aithridatinm as, a, fublticaté. fot Coftur, whereof Lgaveyoua torch in the.Claffis of Cardus and Spinofe in the laft-CGhapter thereof fave anes butnow by comparing the one withthe: other you may. ¢afily fee the errour; forthe Canela albais a white barke, rowledlike Cinamon, and not muchthickerthen it, Winteranus Cortex. Captaine Winters Cinamon. ore in more ufe though not altogether of fo trong Fluxes,but is ofexcellent propertie co coole § all hot inflammations, and eruptions of choIericke matter in the skinne and S, Anthonies fire s the roote of this tree is of chiefeft ufe,and fometimes the wood fteeped in the decoction of Rice, which will grow fower after it hath ftood a few houres, and then theycall it Cania,with this decoétion they wath allo the ourward parts inflamed or {potted which cooleth much,and helpeth all thofe heates: it isalfo drunke being fteeped as aforefaid againft the heate of the Liver, andin hot Feverg: a few leaves of Tamarindsbeing pac thereto they u‘eto wath the fides of Vicers and wounds that are inflamed,and have defluxions of humours to themto {tay the Flux and cooletheheate: The tree is. not greaterthen the former, having but fewbranches and {uch like leaves of the Orrenge,but without that {mall leafe underneath ic, and of a fre(h greene col 1¢ flowers are whitifhlike unto the Honyfucckle v mall round blackith feede likeuntothofe of the Mafticke treesthe barke is of an AfhColour, andthe root white, The Brackmenes andthole Of Canarin call it Va/aveli, the Portugalls Arbol contra las erifi polas. Cuap Pacal, CXXKIX. The Tetter tree. Fewaes His tree groweth neare the Rivers fides in the AG Welt Indies, part whereof being fent to Afonars 4s had this commendations that the afhes of the wood mixed witha lictle Sope, the Indians ufed to annoint on thofe places that had Tetters, RingWormtesor the fowleft {preading Vicers,and fcarres that could be, either in the head or anyother part of the body tocure them and leave the place faire againe. ; and {peedy effed Reet Pavate. rth ine¢ sk a ae) ecient ingot Laskin Another Coftive cree, |