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the Hiftory of Plants. 
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and well fmelling , iteafily growes,whcrefo- 
Guayav* arbor is ramm . cuet j t (, c fowne.and fofpreds and creepes 
The Orange-Bay. that it is accounted as a weed, for it fpoiles 
the grade of many paftures , with the too 
much fpreading as brambles do-, the fruit is 
like to our apples ,of the bigneffe of thofe the 
Spaniards call Camuefiu, green at the fir (hand 
of a golden colour when they be ripe, with 
their inner pulpe white;, and fometimes red ; 
diuidediit hath foure cells, wherein lie the 
feeds, like thofe ofthe Medlers, very hard, of 
a brownifh colour, wholly ftony, without ker- 
nel land talle; 
Thefruitisvfuallyeaten, the rindc being & 
firft taken off-, it is pleafing to the palate, 
vvholefome and eafie of conco&ion ; being 
grecncit is good in fluxes of the belly, for it 
powerfully bindes ; and oner, or throughly 
ripe it Ioofeth the belly ; but betweene both, 
that it is neither too greene, nor ouer-ripe, if 
rolled, it is good both for found and ficke ; 
for fo handled it is wholefommer,and of a 
more pleafing tafte; that alfo is the better 
which is gathered from dopiefticke and huf- 
banded trees. The Indians-profitably bathe 
their fvvolne legges in the decoftion of the 
lcaues ; and by the fame they free the fpleene 
from obftruftion. The fruit feemes to be 
cold, wherefore they giue it rolled to fuch as 
areinfeuers. Itgrowes commonly in all the 
Weft Indies, thus much Moruirdiu, 
Cha, ii. Of the for all tree. 
«f[ The Defcription. 
T He fame laft mentioned Simon do Touar a learned and prime Phyfition of Ciuil! fent Clufius 
three or foure branches of this tree, from whence he framed this hiftory and figure. He writ 
(faith Clnf.) that this tree grew in his garden, fprung vp of feeds fent from America, which had the 
name of Corail impofed on them, by rcafon the floures were like Corall, but he did not fet downe 
there fhape . writing onely this in his letter: That he had two little Ihrubs, which had borne 
floures, and that the greater of them bore alfo cods full of large beanes.but in the extreme Winter, 
which they had the yeere before, he loft not onely that tree, and others fprung vp of Indian feed, 
butalfomany other plants. Now feeing that this tree carries coddes, I conie&ure the floures 
Were in forme not vnlike to thofe of Peafe, or of the tree called ^trbor ludx, but of another 
colour, to wit, red like Corall, efpecially feeing that in the catalogue of his garden which hee 
fent me the yeere before, he had writ thus [Arbor IndicadUla Coral, ob cins florem [imtlrm Cora/lo,drc. 
that is, An Indian tree called Corralfby reafon ofthe flourelike to Corrall,whofe lcaues are ve- 
ry like thofe ofthe Arbor lttdx, but this hath thornes, which that wants. ] And verily the bran- 
ches which he fent (for he writ he fent the branches with the lcaues, but the tree brought out 
fome twice or thrice as bigge) had leaues not much vnlike thofe of Arbor lud.<,bm faftened toa 
{hotter footftalkc and growing oneagainft another, with afingleone at the end of the branch, 
which was here and there fet with fharpeand crooked prickles 5 but whether thefc branches are 
onely the ftalkes ofthe leaues, or perfedt branches.I doubt, becaufe all that hee fent had three 
leaues apiece ■ I could cafily perfuade my felfe, that they were onely leaues, feeing the vpper part 
ended in one leafe - and the lower end of one among the reft, yet {hewed the p ;ace where it feemed 
it grew to the bough. Butlaffirme nothing, feeing there was none whereof I could inquire, by 
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