0,66 INDIAN AND ARABIAN PLANTS 



Sandal of the Arabians & Chandama of the Indians is that wood called 

 Saunders white and yellow. 



[In 1635 the duty levied on the wood of Sunt ahim album L. , was is. per lb. on 

 the white, and 25. per lb. on the yellow.] 



Caxcax is the greate heade of a Poppy that will hold a pinte of liquor. 



\_Piipaver somniferitm L.] 



Imgu & Imgara of the Indians is a kinde of Gum or iuice & is called of 

 the Arabians Altiht & Antit : the plante from whence this iuice is 

 taken is called Anguiden & Angeidan & in the Latine tonge Laser. 

 If it were possible to gett some seede of the plante which is broade 

 & flatt almost like unto a short rounde wing of a bird. 



S^Fentla asafoetida. Description tnken from Garcias, Park. Theatrnrii, 1569.] 



Calambac of the Indians of Malacca is the best Lignum Aloes : and Garro 

 is the worst. The Arabians call this last, which is the worser, 

 Aquilage & Haind. 



[The best Aloes wood, for use as incense, comes from Aquilaria Agalloclia, Roxb. 

 Garo de Malaca is A. ovata. ' .Selectissimi fraginenta ' of this wood were seen 

 by Clusins in England in 1581 in the collections of Hugh Morgan and James 

 Garet.] 



[MS. f. 165. 



List of Indian and Arabimi^ &c., names of Plants, and Vegetable 

 Products of Economic Value. 



Aloes, the Arabs & Turks call Cebar. p. 149.^ Opium. Caphura or 



Camphora. p. 160. 

 Lacca called Luc Sumutri of the Indians of Pegu & Martaban that doe 



not use the Arabian wordes Luc. It is called Tree. p. 158. 

 Tabaxir is a drogue unknowen to us : it is like a graye gum or blackish 



sugar, p. 164. 

 Sambarane is a wood like unto Saunders, p. 174. 

 Macra is the barke of the rootes of a tree. p. 264. 

 Coru, Cura, & Curodapala is all but one thing. 



Pavate in Malabar, of the Portug. Arbol contra las erisipolas. p. 266. 

 Cubebe be berryes. p. 184. Araca is a fruite. p. 189. 

 Cocos be greate nuts as big as a childes heade. p. 191. 

 There be 5 sortes of Myrobalanes called after this manner by the Indians. 

 Aritiqui be those we call Citrini, some call them Arare. p. 194, 



[ Tcrminalia citrina.'\ 



Anuale we call Emblici. These 2 sortes are espetially these we gladly 

 would have ayther yong trees if it were possible or els the stones of the 

 fruite as fresh as maye be brought. 

 \_Etnblica officinalis.'^. 



Rezanuale are called with us Indi Gotin be Bellerici. Aratca be 

 Chebuli. 



[ Tertninnlia chehulica.'] 



Garcias ab Orta doth call them Canarini which inhabit those sea coasts 

 of Decan and Guzarate (aunciently called Gadrosia), lib. 1, cap. 2. 

 Tamarinde is a sowre pulpe of a fruite. p. 196. 



Anacardii be certaine big beanes black and fashioned somwhat like an 

 harte. p. 272. 



* The pat;e numbers refer to Clusius* Exotica, 1605. 



