P a R t II. Of Arborefcent Plant f. 225 
That which Diofcorides calls Zwfflii 5 Galen, Sacchar $ 
Arcbigenes, Sal Indum 3 is the fame thing for fubftance, 
faith Mattbiolus , with that we call Sugar i faving that, 
whereas this is made of the Juyce expreffed and boiFd 5 
that of the Ancients, as is likely , was only the Tears 5 
which burfting out of the Cane, as the Gums or Milks of 
Plants are ufed to do, were thereupon harden'd into a pure 
white Sugar. That the Sugar of the Ancients was the 
fimple Concreted Juyce of a Cane, He well conjectures : 
and what is above- faid of the Mambu, may argue as much. 
But that it was the Juyce or Tears of the Sugar-Cane, he 
proves not. Nor, I think, could be, if, as is fuppofcd, it 
was, like Salt^ friable,and hard. And in affirming our Sugar 
to be the fame for fubftance with that of the Ancients, he 
much mifcakes $ that being the fimple Juyce of the Cane, 
this a compounded Thing, always mixed either with the 
Salt of Lime, or of AJhes 5 fometimes of Animals too. 
The COD and SEED of the true Greater CARDA- 
MUM, figurd by Bejler, in Calceolaria's Mufaum, and 
others with the Name of the Middle Cardamum. The Plant 
it felf, both Leffer, and Greater, defciibed and figur d by 
Bontius 5 (a) who glories himfelf the firft that hath done m ] 6 
it will. The Lefler grows about a yard high, with a joynted c. 36. 
Stalk, like a Reed. But bears its Spikes, with the Flower 
and Seed, near the Root. The Greater grows two yards 
in height, the Stalk not joynted, with a Spike of Flowers 
at the top, fomewhat like to that of a Jacynth. Both of 
them plentiful in Java. 
The Indians feafon all their boil'd Meats herewith, pre- 
ferring it before other Spices, as not being biting. 
That which is commonly received amongft Botanicks 
for the Greater kind, from the fiery hot Tart of its Seeds 
( called Grana Paradifi) feems to be no Cardamum, but of 
another Tribe. 
The PAPYR-REED of Nile. Papyrus Nilotica. By the 
Mgyptians called Berd. Given by Sig r . Boccone,who brought 
it out of Sicily, where it grew. Defcribed and figur 'd in 
BaubinuSy (b) who with Gefner, makes it a Species of Cy- (£)Lib. iS* 
per us, to which (in Leaf and Stalk) it is like 5 but bath a c - J ? 6 ' 
more compared Head. This feems to have been no tall Plant : 
but upon its Native Bed, fc. near the Banks of the River 
G g . Nile, 
