Part II. Of Nuts. 203 
An Oval PALMACOCO, about the bignefs of a 
Nutmeg. 
Another, of a ftraw colour, wrinkled, knobed, and fome- 
what comprefled, Figur’d in fome fort by Bauhinus., (a) (A Tom. 1. 
under the Title of Avellana Indica feculiaris Came- 
rarij. 
A BROAD PALMACOCO. An inch over or in breadth; 
from the Bafe to the top directly, not above K That al- 
moft flat, this with a blunt point. It hath three Holes on 
the fides, almoft equidiftant. 
An ORBICULAR PALMACOCO. Yet a little com¬ 
prefled, as a Bowl. Not above I an inch Diametre; of the 
colour and hardnefs of Box ; furrow’d as a Peach-Stone. 
On the fides are three equidiftant Holes, over-fpread with 
black capillary Fibers. 
A RHOMBOID-NUT, of affinity with the former. 
An inch and * long 3 * broad, and I an inch thick, the fides 
being a little comprefled. Cover’d round about with 
fmall woody Fibers , produced from the Stalk or Bafe to 
the top of the Shell. 
The FAYEEL or FAUFEL. The Fruit of a kind of 
Palme , by the Malabarins called ARECCA. Defcnbed by 
Garcias , Bauhinus , and Wormius. But by none of them 
well. It hath a three-fold Cover, of fo many forts of 
work. Theutmoft, confifting of ftraw-colour’d, foftand 
(as Garcias rightly) downy Fibers. The middle, of yel- 
lowifh, and fttirdy ones, of the thicknefs of a fewing 
Needle: about > an inch longer, than to the top of the 
Shell, yet couched down round about it. Theinmoft, a 
thin flendcr Cafe, but woody. Yet lined with a pithy fub- 
ftance. All contrived for the greater warmth, and gra¬ 
dual expofing of the Nut within to the Aer. This Nut is 
about the bignefs of a little Nutmeg 3 but not fo long. 
This Fruit grows in Malavar and the Ifland Mombaim. 
Being eaten unripe, it ftupifies, and as it were inebriates. 
For which caufe, (. b ) fome eat them to make them unfenfi- (!>) Garcias, 
ble of great pains. Garcias faith,That he ufed their Diftill’d- 
Water, in Bilious Diarrhoea s, with great fuccefs. 
A FRUIT very like to the Faufel. Bauhinus defcribes 
and figures it out of Clufius , by that Name. Yet it feems, 
to me, to be the Faufel it felf in the Bud. 
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