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I Nux Indica arbor. 



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2 Nttcula Indica. 



The little Indian Nut 



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Mtx Indica. 



The Indian Nut. 



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or Ben, It is fome inch long, of a triangular 



figure,with a hard and woody fheJI : which 

 broken (hewe* 3 eels orpartitions,ineachof 

 which is contained a long kernell white and 

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of Africa,and in the Eaft Indies,& in all the 

 I Hands of Weft India, efpccially in Hifpa- 

 nioIa,Cuba,and S.Iohns Ifland,and alfo vp- 

 on the continent by Carthagena,Nombre dc 

 dios,and Panama,and in Virginea,othei\vilc 

 called Norembega, patt of the fame Conti- 

 nent,for the moft part neere vnto the Tea f.de 

 and in moift places,butit is feldora found m 

 the vplandifli countries. 



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The fruit is called in Latine Nnx Indica : of the Indians, Cocm • of the Portugals that : divei in « 

 Eaft I adi^cocco, taken from the end, wherein arc three holes reprefenting the head ot a mv ^ 



Scrape and Rhafis cal this tree larralnarej. . Arborem mcifcram^hc tree bearing nuts : ot J*"* ^ 

 cialhcnd : of the vulgar people Maro,and the fruit 2\Wj which name Tfarel is common am o ^ 

 Perflans and Arabians. I t is called in Malauar, Jengamaran ' "" " e -'"-"°~ A flnd lLCU 



fruit £/?//' • in Goa it is called Lanhan ; in MaUio,Triccan : and the nut #/'/*>/•. 



The diftilled li quor is called Sula - and the oile that is made thereof/:*//*. 



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