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Of the Hifloric of PI 





jfidevpwards. 

 been told (but 



3 The fame cut through the middle long waies. 4 The fame cut GA* : ~~^ 



u CC u L U1U k uw, how cettainely it is I know not) that the floures which precede rh P fn,^'";. 1 haue 

 fhioned s and of a blew colour. I could obferue no feed in the fruit . it may belt La K ^r^ 1 

 beene cut from the ftocke (o long before it came to maturity. This olanr it f™„ ? uft !t ha * 

 of Afia, A fricke,and America, efpecially in the hot regions : you may finde frXen? "^ placw 

 amoneft the fea voiases to the Eaft and Weft Tndi« L *. i c ™ _ • re ^ uent mcntionof ir 



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CMofes out of the Holy-land. $ 



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Buns. 



en fruir . 





UMufefruffus exattior Icon. 



An exafter figure of the Plantaine fruit. 













This admirable treesroweth in AL 



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Alep, which we call Aleppo \ and alfo by Tripolis,not far from thence : it groweth alfo in Canara, 

 Decan,Guzarate,and Bengala,places of the Eaft-Indies. 



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From the root of this tree fhooteth forth young fprings or fhoots, which the people take vpana 

 plant for theincreafe of the Spring of the yeare.The leaues wither away in September, as is aooue 

 faid . 



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% The Names. . . r 



It is called tMufa by fuch as trauell to Aleppo : by the Arabians, M*f* M^m: in Syria, <wj 

 The Grecians and Chriftians which inhabit Syria, and the Iewes alfo, fuppofe it to be «a c tree 

 whofe fruit u4» did tafte s which others thinke it to be a rediculous fable i?™'^ ??"*'^ 



It is called in the Eaft-Indies (as at Malauar where it alfo groweth) ?d«n 1 m Malayo,""*-" 

 in thatpartofAfricawhichwecallGinny^^^^.-inEnglifh, Adams Apple tree. 



^j The Temperature. 4 of the fame. 



Serapo judges,that itheatcth in the end of the firft degree, and moiftneth in the end or 



m The Venues. , n. i une $ 



The fruit hereof yeeldeth but little nourifliment: it is good for the heate of the :breatt^ * 



And bladder : it ftoppeth the liuer, and hurteth the ftoraacke if too much ot it De eaic , r 





