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An Appendix to 
1 The China now in vfe is a root of the largenefle of that of the ordinarie Flag, or Iris pahtflris 
and not much in fhape vnlike thereto, but that it wants the rings or circles that are imprinted in 
the other : the outer coat or skin of this root is, thin, fometimes fnaooth,otherwhile ru^oed Q f a 
brownifli red colour, and not to be feparated from the fubftance of the root,which is of an indiffe- 
rent firmeneffe, being not fo hard as wood, but more follid than moll roots which are not of fhrubs 
or trees : the colouris fometimes white, with fome very fmall mixture of rednefle ; otherwhiles it 
hath a greater mixture of red, and fome are more red than white : it is alraoil without taft,yet that 
it hath is dry, without any bitternefle or acrimonie at all. The beftis that which is indifferently 
pondetous, new, firme, not worme-eaten,nor rotten, and which hath a good and freih colour , and 
that either white, or much inclining thereto.The plant whofe root this is (if we may beleeu eChri- 
fiof her A Cop) hath many fmall prickly and flexible branches, not vnlike the Smilux ajpera, or the 
prickly Binde-weed : the biggeft of thefe exceedeth not the thickenelfe of ones little finger. The 
leauesareof the bigneffe of thofe of the broad leaned Plantainc: the roots are as large as ones 
hand, fometimes Idle, follid, heauy, white, and alfo fometimes red, and many oft times growing 
together. • ° 
It groweth aboundantiy in the territorie of China, and is alfo found in Malabar, Cochin, 
Cranganor, Coulan, Tanor, and ocher places. 
The Chinois call it Lampatan : in Decan they call it Lampatos .- in Canarin, Bouti : the Arabi- 
ans, Perfians, and T urks terme it Choph-China. 
a This other root, whofe figure you fee here expreft, was fent from London to Clufius in the 
yeareiyy r,by lames Garret, being brought out ofVVingandecaow, or Virginia, with this inferip- 
V°r ’ C . ’ ,n ^.^ ec,es ' A kinde of China. C7»/«r caufed this figure thereof to be drawne , and thus 
delcribeth it. This root (faiph hee) was very knotty, and formed with out-growings, or bunches 
ltanding out, of a reddifh coIdnr,and ic yet retained at the top fome part of the ftalke, being fom- 
what iikevnto that of SmUx af]>er.i, or common rough Binde-weed, hard, wooddy , and full of 
vemes, as the ftalks of SmiLtx afpera • the fubftance of the root was alfo reddiih, as the root of the 
common Flagge, at the firft of a faltilh tafte, it being old, (for lo it was when I receiued it) 
and 
l China'vulgaris Ofpinarnrn, 
True China. 
2 Pfeudo-CLina, 
Ballard China, 
