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tick Quality ; 'the Flowers grow in Clutters like thcfe of 
the Vine, are pentapetalofe, white, and marked within 
with a yellow Spot, and a Honey Spicy Style, to which 
fucceeds the Fruit of the Figure of a Kidney, as large as 
a Goofe Egg, firft green and checquered with white 
Punttums, then yellowith, and afterwards of a Golden 
Colour, with a thin downy Skin ; the Stone is oblong 
flattilh, and lanuginofe, the Kernel u hereof refembks 
that of an Almond of thefe there are as many varieties 
in India, as Peaches and Plums in Europe : The Wood 
is in ufe amongft the Gentiles in burning their Dead 
Bodies, to which 'tis confecratcd, and for making their 
Coffins or Urns. The Bracbmans adorn their Habitati- 
ons with the Boughs on Feftival days, they rub their 
Teeth with the Leaves, and u(e them as they do the 
Betel and Faufel, (the firft of the Fepper, the latter of 
the Palm kind) the Gum is given in ail forts of Fluxes. 
The Fruit is either eaten out of W ine, or Pickle, or in 
Conferve, fometimes ftuft with frefti Ginger, Garlick, 
Muftard, m& and fprinkled with Salt, Oyl and Vinegar, 
and fo eaten with Rice and other Meats, as we do Gur- 
chens and Olives. Out of the dry'd -Kernels they make 
a Meal, of which they prepare leveral forts of Meat. 
To this we might add the Hiftories of many other 
exotick and rare Trees defcrib'd,and elegantly Figur'd in 
this Fourth Part,as the Adamaranp. fort or Almond-Tree, 
out of wi&ch the Indians make Cakes, milky Eoiulfions, 
and an Oyl by ExprefTion ; it bears Fruit three times in 
one Year. Panem-Talka a Species of Nutmeg, which 
the Turkijh and Jewijh Merchants fometimes iiibftitute 
inftead of the true with the Mace on it, and fell the Oyl 
for genuine. The Samftravadi, with the Flowers and 
Fruit whereof, the Ethnick and Superfluous Pilgrims 
deck their Bodies after having Confecrated them • the 
Portugueses call it Rofairos, numbring their Prayers with 
them mltead of Beads ; 'tis a fort of PJum call'd Jamlos, 
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