Part II. 
Of Fruits. 
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and Bauhinus pictures it accordingly with a trivalvous 
Cod. Pifo, out of Bontims Papers, gives two Figures, one 
of the Male, the other of the Female : and fuppofeth, that 
the uncertainty of Relations hereof may proceed partly 
from the not didinguifhing betwixt them. The Stalk of 
the Male indeed feems to have fome little hkenefs to a Flag. 
But the Seed-Cod is there neither figur’d nor defend'd. 
The bed Ginger grows upon the Coaft of Malabar. That 
which is preserved with Sugar , comes, or did at lead in Lin- 
febotus’s time, from Bengala and China. 
CHAP. II. 
OfFRVITS. 
'He great FLAGON GOURD, or rather CALA- 
BASH, for fuch I take it to be, and that therefore it 
fhould have been placed with that fort of Fruit. Bauhi- 
nus ( a ) deferibes a Gourd in fhape pretty like to this by th£ W Lib. 
Name of Cucurbita Lagenaria 5 but mentions neither how c ’ 
big, nor of what hardnefs the fhell 5 in which latter re- 
fpedt the Fruit here before us, ( as do mod Calibajhes ) far 
exceeds all the forts of Gourds that I know. ’Tis very 
fmooth, and of a parchment-colour: near eleven inches 
long. That part of the Neck next the Tree three inches 
and * over 5 next the belly three and the belly it 
felf, nine inches; or two feet three inches about ; the top 
deprefled. The fhell as hard almod as a Plum-ft one, and at 
the fmall end above a quarter of an inch thick. 
A LONG Indian GOURD. I find it not defend’d. 
Almod of a golden colour5 in length, ten inches ; in the 
middle, where it is thicked, three over ; from thence it • 
grows flender to the Stalk; the top Oval. Made angular 
with ten Ribs, or great Fibers produced by the length, in 
the middle about an inch diifant one from another, and 
appearing the higher, by the fhrinking down of the hides 
between them. The Rind not hard, within, whitilh and 
very fibrous. The Seeds, black and rough, near ; an inch 
long. 
