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Of the Hiflorie of Plants 



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both Winter and fummer in my garden,* ithout 



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ported vnto me by Trauellers,that the Indians do call it in fome narr . / 

 ca and lucca. It is thought to be the plant called of Theofhrafa , Awl'lTtf 1 * 



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This plant is hot and dry in the firft deg 



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fonous juice is prefTed or ftrained forth j and is alfo dry in the middle : of the fccond d ? 



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Of the Fruit arfnacardium, and Caious or Caio 



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W^rXt r S F^ "u* hangeth ° n the »ee,it refembleth a Bean/a«inS it h muA 



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Mel Anacardimm&thougb, the kernell is vfed in meats & fauces 



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The Bean of Malaca. 







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The kidny Bean of Malaca. 





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The other fruit groweth vpon a tree of the bignefle of a Peare tree : the leaues arc much like to 

 thofe of the Olive trce,but thicker and fatter,of a feint greenecolour : the floures are white,con li- 

 fting of many fmall leaues much like the floures of the Cherry tree, but much doubled , without 

 fmell : after commeth the fruit, according to Cluftus, of the forme and magnitude of a gooie egge 



full of juice,in the end whereof is a nut,in fhape like an Hares kidny,hauing two rindes betweene 

 which is contained a moft hot and fliarp oile like that of AnacArdiumyvhextot it is a kinde. 



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neerevnto which cods commeth forth anexcrefcencelike vnto an apple, very yellow, °}H 

 fmell,fpungeous within^nd full of ;uice,without any feeds,ftoncs,or grains at all, iotnwra i ^ 

 in tafte,at the one end narrower than the other^eare-fafhionjOr like a little bottle, wmcn w . 

 reputed of fome for the fruit.but not rightly, for it is rather an excrefcence,as is the vkc w ' 



f The Pi Ate. rambava, 



ThefirftgrowcsinmoftpartsoftheEaaindies, efpecially in Cananor, Calecate, v. ; 



4n4 Decan, The laterin Brafile. 



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