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and Baubinus pictures it accordingly with a trivalvous 
Cod. Pifo, out of Bontiuss Papers, gives two Figures, one 
of the Male, the other of the Female : and fuppofeth, that 
the uncertainty of Relations hereof may proceed partly 
from the not diftinguifliing betwixt them. The Stalk of 
the Male indeed feems to have fome little likenefs to a Flag. 
But the Seed-Cod is there neither figur d nor defcrib'd. 
The beft Ginger grows upon the Coaft of Malabar. That 
which is preferved with Sugar > comes, or did at leaft in Lin- 
fchotuss time, from Bengala and China, 
CHAP. II. 
OfFRVITS. 
THe great FLAGON GOURD, or rather CALA- 
BASH, for fuchl take it to be, and that therefore it 
Ihould have been placed with that fort of Fruit. Baubi- 
nus {a) defcribes a Gourd in ftiape pretty like to this by the W Llb>1 
Name of Cucurbit a Lagenaria 5 but mentions neither how 
big, nor of what hardnefs the (hell 3 in which latter re~ 
fpect the Fruit here before us, (as do moft Calibajhes) far 
exceeds all the forts of Gourds that I know. Tis very 
fmooth, and of a parchment-colour: near eleven inches 
long. That part of the Neck next the Tree three inches 
and * over 5 next the belly three and ? 5 the belly it 
felf, nine inches 5 or two feet three inches about 3 the top 
depreffed. The (hell as hard almoft as a Plum-ftone, and at 
the fmall end above a quarter of an inch thick. 
A LONG Indian GOURD. I find it not defcrib'd. 
Almoft of a golden colour 3 in length, ten inches 3 in the 
middle, where it is thickeft, three over 3 from thence it 
grows (lender to the Stalk 3 the top Oval. Made angular 
with ten Ribs, or great Fibers produced by the length, in 
the middle about an inch.diftant one from another, and 
appearing the higher, by the fhrinking down of the fides 
between them. The Rind not hard, within, whitifti and 
very fibrous. The Seeds, black and rough, near '* an inch 
long, 
