the Hiftory of Plants. 1609 
girt about therewith for fonaenine foot high more : the fruit is round and globe-fafhioned, of the 
fhape and magnitude ofafmall gourd, hauing when it ts ripe a yellowifh pulpe, which the inha- 
bitants vfe to eate to loofen their bellies : this fruit contains many kernels of the bignes of a fmal 
peafe,blacke and fhining,ofnovfe that he could iearne, but which were caftawayasvnneceflary : 
the leaues come forth amongft the fruit, growing vpon long foot-ftalkes,and they in fhape much 
refcmble the Plane tree or great Maple. 
CMamoera mat. Mamoirafotmina. 
The male Dug tree. The female Dug tree. 
What name the Brafilians giue it he could not tell, but of the Portugals that dwelt there it was 
called Mamocr a ,3.ni the fruit Marnaen, of the fimilitude I thinke they haue with dugs, which by the 
Spaniards are called Mamas and Tetas. 
There is no difference in the forme of the trunke or leaues of the male and female, but the male 
only carries floures hanging downe, cluttering together vpon long ftalks like to the floures of El- 
der but ofawhitifh yellonr colour, and thefevnprofitable, as they affirme. . , 
Both thefe trees grow in that part of America wherein is feituate the famous Bay called by the 
Portugals, Bay a de todos los fanttis, lying about thirteene degrees diftant from the Equator towards 
the Antarticke pole. 
Chap. 18. 
Of the Qloue 'Berry Tree . 
«J The Defcrtplioa. 
■ Mutt alfo abftraa the hiftorie of this out of the Works of the learned and diligent Cfo/^.who 
