The Leaves aré good where withall’to-tie Things and make Um: 
brella’s, of light Hats, they bear’no ripe, but unripe Pruit in Italy; Dates 
are good for Defluxions on the Throat, Cef 
The Stones burnt in a Potter’s Oven in a new. Pot, make Spodium, 
Tra ; watt aa 
Diacabciehvos ftitt’d with a Branch of this, “is faid to be adftringent, 
Dod. JOO" : 
This Tree thrives not in a fandy Soil, Lagd. 
About Tripoli'they feed on this Fruit, Necolaz, | aon 
The Stone has the Sign of a Heart on it to denote its being a Cordial, 
LaGiGd e- OIG) ? | >: | ! 
It’s wonderful fo hard a Stone fhould fo -foftén as to peel and come off 
from its inward Marrow, which is like a Cartilage, Caz. 
Many .of Alexander the Great’s Soldiers were ftrangled with green 
Dates.. [i 
Linfchot; Defer, dela: Gained; cap. 5. takes Notice of this Palm-Tree 
in Congo.: ) > ae | 
Pigafett. of Co 
there. (1UO1 a | | 
Pyrardy p. 2. p.t5§2. at Socotora in great Quantity, it Ormus, p. 153: 
po 3. pi 63- and at Morocco. De TINO eter et es 
‘| ldife de cade Mofto, ap. “Rama: po 1. 'p. 107. at Fodé# near Cape Blanc 
where they live of! them with Barley,and ‘by the Azanagi near the Ris 
ver Senega, 2b; . SA i ibiy =i GES Siiip: Ae ; : f Z 
This. Palm-Tree is: faid-to'bear Dates in an H{land called Sarrope in a 
Lake in Florida by Laudonniere, apud Hakl, p.338. - 
- Dates are faid'to grow about Bafora in the Perfian Gulf in fuch Quan- 
tity fo as to furnifh Babylon, Fitch: ap, Hakl-p.2513 | 
Palm-Trees grow-about Ormus, Polo. -ap. Purchas, lib.t, p. Ft. 
| Dates which rife from Stones planted in E/panola:are not good, be- 
caufe of their Ignorance in curing them, Oviedo, 1ib.:8. cap. 1. 
Date-Trees (Rawolfe, cap, 2.) grow ‘about Tripoli. and'p.1. cap. 9. about 
Aleppo. and ‘p. 3, cap, 21. about Ferafalem, andcap, 22.~between Ferafalem 
and ‘foppa. and p. 2: cap. 4, and cap, 5, about nna, where are Woods of 
them, and fo of no Efteem; among others there are two leffer Kinds, 
one red, another: yellow. Y 1 gee : 
Hernan Lopez de-Caftander takes Notice of them both raw and preferved, 
at Mofambique, cap.6, And Terry. p. 96, in the Mogal’s Country. 
ago. Ind. Ori p. 1. p. 29. takes Notice of them growing 
Il. Palma, foliorum pedicalis fpinofis, fruttu pruniformi Luteo oleofo. Cat. 
Jam. p.175. Lab. 214, Raij. Hift-Vol. 3. Dendr. p.1. An palma Americana 
pediculis foliorum carinis rartoribus at tongiffimis [pints aculeata, fummis api= 
cibus leviter ferratis, Pluk. Alm, p. 276? An Ergon Theod. de Bry. prafat. 
x. Part, Ind. Or. vel prano fimilis exotica 8va. feu pruno cereo funtlis fructus 
Africanus C. By pia-p. 444? Argan fea Ergden, Ogilb. Afr. p. 22 2° An Pal- 
ma Americana crafiis, rigidt/q; foltjs. Herm, par, Bat.p.210? An Palma dac- 
tylifera & vinifera. Plum. pl. Am. p. 3? “Palmier qui porte ? Haile de Palme, 
Pommet. p. 204. > © 7 5 é 
The ; Palm Oil-Tree. 
This had a Swelling towards its Root, the Trunc-of the Tree was as 
big as one’s Body, cover’d with the Remainders of the Leaves: Foor- 
ftalks ;) the ‘Leaves come’ all'out ‘at the Top; they were for Length, 
middle Ribs, Pinns, crs. like ie of the Coco-Nur-Tree, only the 
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