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Tree called Cadira, by the Indians, which they thus pre pare*. 
They divld;^ the Bearc [MeduHd] of the Tree into thin Slice?, 
which they grind upon a Marble, fiich as Painters u(i, and 
boyl the Powder in a Tufficienc Qpantity of Water for Four 
and Twenty Hours, and then flrain it. This Decodion (hey 
boyl again beyond the Confiftency of Honey, but not fo hard 
as Wax, of which they make P^j^z///, which bciug ^ried ar^ 
outwardly black, but inwardly redilli. This Opinion he ra* 
ther adheres to, than that of a late learned Traveller m India, 
who afferts Catechu to be made up of the Juice of the Fruit of 
Jreca Of: Faufel ^ and a certain Mineral Earth of thac 
Elace. 
He. prefents us with a fort of Fi^achh-Tvee, which he 
calls, Vifiacitim mas Jiculum folio nigrkante, which produces no 
efculent Fruit, being by it felf barren, chough in refpe(5l: of 
the Female, which it impregnates with Fruit, it may befaid 
to be fruitful. Then he gives us the Notes of Diftindion be- 
tween the Male' and Female Vifiachio^ and tells us how the 
Country-men ingravidate the Female with the Flowers of tha 
Male, viz.. They wait till the Female hath its Flowers expli- 
cated ; then they take, at their Difcretion, many Flowers of 
the Male, which are in Bud and juft ready to open, and put 
them into a Veffel, and having encompaffed them with Earth 
moiftened with Water ; they hang this Veffel with the Flow- 
ers on a Branch of the Female Pi/^^c^/(?, and there leave it till 
the Flowers bedriad, that fo the Powder which they fcatter 
may more eafily by the help of the Wind bedifperfed over aU 
the Branches of the Tree^ and ingravidate them with Fruit. 
Other more compendious Ways he mentions, which the 
Country- men ufe of fcattering the Duft or Powder of the 
Flowers of the Male upon the Female. He tells us, That the 
Male, for the moft part, flawers and fcatters its Prolifick 
Po.wder before the Female puts forth its Bloffoms (which hap^ 
pens in moft Plants fuppofed to differ in Sex) and what Pro- 
vifion they make in that cafe. This being the general VraBke in 
Sicily, muH needs defend ufon Ohjervatton, that "without fo doing 
the Trees would not he fruitful^ or at leaH not to that Degree^ and 
confirms the Opinion^ that there is in ?knts alfo a dtffennce of 
