22o Of Arborefcent Plants. Part II- 
CHAP. II. 
Of ARBORESCENT Plants. 
A SPIKE of LONG PEPPER 3 a fort of Climber oxWinder, 
after the manner of Hops, and other like Plants. Not 
much differing from the Round, faving in the Spike. It 
grows in Malabar, Java, and Sumatra - y but efpecially in 
(a) Mantiflffi Bengala, where it is called Pimpilim. See Pifo hereof, (a) 
Arormt.c.8, iETHYOPIAN-PEPPER , or rather the Coded-Fruit 
WLib.15. hereof. Well defcribed by Bauhinus. (b) By Bejler cu- 
rioufly figur d. Here, upon one Stalk, hang about 1 5 Cods, 
mod of them three inches long, thick as a Goofe-Quill, 
fibrous, and of the colour of Cloves 3 containing ten or 
twelve blackifh and longifh Seeds , each in a Cell by it 
felf 3 not half fo big as the leaft of French-Beans, which 
Bauhinus affirmeth them to equal, but more like the Seed 
of the Laburnum ma jus. Neither, according to the fame 
Author, hath it the taft of black Pepper, but rather of the 
Clove 3 mz. not much biting, yet very Aromatic^ efpecially 
being well heated at a fire. 
POYSON-BERRYS. So they are infcribU The fruit 
of a Plant growing in the Burmudas , fomewhat like to 
Ivy. They grow in Bunches, almoft as thofe of Round 
Pepper, and are much of the fame bignefs, almoft of a 
ftony hardnefs, yet inclofed in a thin brittle and pellucid 
Cover. Whether they were gather d full ripe, appears 
not. 
The COD of a Weft-Indian Plant 91 called TAXOCO- 
QUAMOCHIT. This Cod, but not the Plant, is defcribed 
and hgur'd in Bauhinus. (c) 'Tis five inches long* I an inch 
broad, and fharp- pointed. Divided into twenty or four 
and twenty diftincl: Cells, made by fo many thin Mem- 
branes, for the lodging of as many Seeds apart, of a dark 
Bay, and fomewhat like thofe of Broom. 
FlL L °Brafi. The COI) of a KIDNEY-BEAN of Brafile. (d) I find 
Hanse Nc- it not defcribed. J Tis Divided into two Cells, by a Partition 
near two inches and ? long, 
and as broad,fwelling out on both fides the Lobe, which out- 
wardly is very rough and tawny, hath two furrows along 
the 
fc) Torn. 1. 
cap. 1 1. 
