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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



but not fo pleafant as the Figs of Spaioe ; notwithstanding they are~^od^ be e*t*n7Z 

 very wholefome. . >r? • ■ 5 l ° oe eaten, and 



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K^drbo r ex GoaMue Indica. 



, The arched Indian Fig tree. 





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This wondrows treegrowcth in diucrs pj a - 



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Goa, andalfo in Malaca; 



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vnto 



moft parts of the World. 



it is a 



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f The Time. 



This tree keepeth his Jcaues greet* Win 

 ter and Summer. 



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berGoapl the place where it growcth ingrca 



ched Fig tree. 



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t Such as defire to fee more of this Fig- 

 tree, raay hauc recourfe to Clufim his Exotukt t 

 M,i.C4p.'i. where he (hewes it was mentioned 



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^[ ?£* Temperature and Venues. 



We baue nothing to write of the tempera- 

 ture or vertues of this tree, of out owne know- 

 ledge : neither haue we receiued from others 

 more, than that the fruit hereof is generally 

 eacen 5 and that without any hurt at all, but ra- 

 ther good, and alfo nouriihing. 



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Of ad dams adfple tree, or the JVefiAndtan ^Plantane 





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WI lether this plant may be reckoned for a tree properly, or for aa herby Plant, it is difpu- 

 table.coniidering the foft and herby fubftance whereof it is made ; that is to fay,when it 



cuen with as much eafe as the root of a reddim or Carrot of the like bigneffe : from a thi 

 tnreddy root rile immediately diuers great Ieaues.of the length of three cubits and a halfe, 



0e of a mans thigh 

 ee cuts with a knife, 



thicke fat 

 fome- 



and of a cubit and more broad, of bigncfle fuf- 



ouerworne 



times more,according to the foile where it groweth, ai 



nctent to wrap acbiide inof two yeares old, in fhape Ii 



coiour,bam g a broad ribbc running through the middle thereof: which leaues, wnetuer py »c-««j 

 ot tue extreme hot fcorching Sun, or of their owne nature, in September are fo dric and *}™" ea > 

 that there rs nothing thereof left or to bee feene butonelythe middle rib. From the middcft oi 

 thele leaues rifcth vp a thicke trunke, whereon doth grow the like leaues, which the P e0 P^ do , c " c 

 oft, asalfothofenexttheground.bymeanes whereof it rifcth vp to the height of a tree, wmeno- 

 themafc would remaine a low and bafc plant. . This manner of cutting they vfe from time to^ time, 

 mill itcameto a ccrtaine height, aboue the reach of the Elephant, which greedily fecketnaitw 

 the fruit. In the middefl of the top among the leaues commeth forth a foft and fungou; 

 whereon do grow diuers apples in forme like a fmall Cucumber, and of the fame bignefle 



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