Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
The Names. 
‘Tawalapatra is called of the Indians in their mother tongue, efpecially of the Arabians, Cadegt 
Indi, or Ladegi lndl, that is,F6liiimlndiciim,os Indum, the Indian leafe: but the Mauritanians doe 
call it Tembul. The Latines and Grecians following fome of the Arabians, haue called it (Mala. 
. iathrum. 
TheTemperatureandycrtucs. 
The Indian leafe is hot and dry in the fecond degree, agreeing with Nardus in temperature, or as ^ 
others report with Mace : it prouoketh vrine mightily, warmeth and comforteth the ftomacke,and 
helpeth digeftion. 
It preuaileth againft the pin and web in the eyes, the inflamed and waterie eyes, and all other in- B 
firmities of the fame. 
It is laid among cloathes, as well tokeepe them from moths and other vermine, as alfo to giue C 
vnto them a fweet fmell. 
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A P. IJO. 
Caryofhylli veri Clu(!j. 
The true forme of the Clone tree. 
Of the Qloue tree « 
«j The Defer if lion. 
T He Clone treegroweth great in forme 
like vnto the Bay tree, the trunke or bo- 
die whereof is couered with a rulfet barker 
the branches are many,long,and very brittle, 
whereupon do grow leaues like thofe of the 
Bay tree, but fomevvhat narrower : amongft 
which come the floures, white at the firft, af- 
ter of a greenifh colour, waxing of a darke 
ted colour in theend .-which floures arethe 
very cloues when they grow hard.-after when 
they be dried in the Sunne they become of 
that dusky black colour which wedayly fee, 
wherein they continue. For thofe that wee 
haue in eftimation are beaten downe to the 
ground before they be ripe, and are fuffered 
there to lie vpon the ground vntill they bee 
dried throughly, where there is neither 
grade, weeds, nor any other herbes graving 
to hinder the fame, by reafon the tree draw- 
eth vnto it lelfe for his nourifhment all the 
moifture of the earth a great circuit round 
about, fo that nothing can there grow for 
want of moifture, and therfore the more con- 
uenient for the drying of the Cloues. Con- 
trariwife, that grofle kinde bf Cloues which hath beene fuppofed to be the male, are nothing elfe 
than fruit of the fame tree tarrying there vntill it fall downe of it felfe vnto the ground, where by 
reafon of his long lying, and meeting with fome raine in the mean feafon, it lofeth the quick tafte 
that the others haue. Some haue called thefe Fufti, whereofwe may Englifh themFufles. Some 
affirme that the floures hereof furpafle all other floures in fvveetnefle when they are greene; and 
hold the opinion, that the hardned floures are not the Cloues themfelues, (as wee haue written) 
but rhinke them rather to be the feat or huske wherein the floures doe grow : the greater numbet 
hold the former opinion. And further, that the trees'are increafed without labour, graffing, plan- 
ting, or other induftrie, but by the falling of the fruit, which beare fruit within eight yeares after 
they berifen vp,and fb continue bearing for an hundred yeares together, as the inhabitants of thac 
countrey doaffirme. 
The Place. 
The Cloue tree groweth in fome few places of the Molucca Iflands, as in Zeilanjaua the grea- 
ter and the leffe, and in diners othfcr places. 
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