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Alftnui ; and Sadar Adhal of Serapio. A Xeranthe;» 
moide Scabious immarcefcible from Africa ; and ano- 
ther Globe-headed one, from the Oriental Indies, 
The Tamarisk of E^pt^ call'd Atle ; that of jEthh 
epia, with a prickly roundilh Fruit including a foft 
Down, no other than the Frutex cinericeus mufcofus 
Capitis Bon, Spei ^S Breynius ; and that Piluliferous one 
of Monomopata, efteemed by our Author the true Aca- 
calis of DiofcoriJes and Paulus ; and perhaps that very 
Cyprels-like Atlas Tree, whofe Branches were covered 
witha Cobweb Lavvne, obferv'd by Suetonitu Paulinm^ 
whom Fliny dees remember to have ften a Conful ; and 
was the firft Roman General that paffed fome Miles be- 
yond the Mountain. 
The Tithymalus aphyllus, or naked Tree-Spurge , 
which our Author makes the fame with Felfel of Alpir 
nm , and /Egyptian Long Pepper of Veflingitu, The 
Aizoide Tithymal, and true Euphorbium of the Cana- 
ries^ with a lively Figure of the Vanillia's, which of- 
ten grow upon the Panaroma, or Jamaica Pepper up? 
on that Ifland. 
But we lhall here prefent the Reader with a more 
particular account at large, of a very confiderable Plant 
which our Author calls by the Name of Nymphaea glan* 
difera paludibus gaudens, ©c. which is the true 
Faba ^Egyptia, and Colocafia of the Ancients ; a Plant 
that has lain in darknefs perhaps for above Two Thou* 
ftnd Years, ever fince the time of old Herodotus; 
who, as fome have conceived, gave the firft occafion of 
its being miftaken^ which has been derived even to our 
own times ; inafmuch as many famous Botanifts of 
thefe latter Centuries, fufpeded Antiquity to have beea 
deceiv'd in the Hiftory of this Bean and fome were fo 
hold to affert, the Ancients were fabulous in their Ac- 
counts of it, . Thus BelJoniiiSi Alpinus^ Camerariui, 
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