Tkeatrum 'TBotanicum 
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Tribe, 2. 
1. Aloe Americana. 
Hcaibc Aloes of America. Alois Americana canps cum Jlorihm ftperatine fios & pliqua femhum* 
The ftalke and the flowers of the /Aoc Amcr.z flowed & head of feed by themfelycs 
cons talent, which leaves arc found on the under-fidcj and channelled or made hollow like a gutter on the iipper- 
lide, and at the bottomeencompafle one another, but growing flat when they are elder after afootes length, unto 
the end : the innermoft ftill abiding channelled and hollow : thefe leaves are full ofjuyee and full of threads running 
thorow them, but are no more bitter than the other: in the middle of thefe leaves after a long times abiding, rifeth 
a ftrong great fpungy flalkc, of the bignefle of a mans armc, with a few fmall dry and brownifh leaves, fparfedly 
let thereon, and of the length of a Horfemans flaffe in fome places, but riling higher than two fpeares length in o- 
thersj as at A-vignion, where as it is reported, within the fpace of 45.dayes,the greene flalkc grew to the height 
of 2 2. hands breadth: that is, about nine or ten foote : and about twelve cubits length, in the Duke of Florence his 
garden, and fifteene cubits at Rome , branched almoft from the middle thereofup to the toppe, into divers branches, 
and each of them againe into others, the great branch ftanding out for a good fpace, and then turning upwards ; on 
each whereof are fct a number of flowers, even two or three hundred, being no other then long and large greene 
three-fquare hard huskes, thrufting out fixe great yellow hard and crooked threads, tipt at the toppes with yellow 
pendents ; and in the middle amongft them another yellow round headed pointell, Lofrel faith, of a purplifli blue 
colour, which is not true, for they are of a whitilh or yellow ifti greene colour, and of a fweet feent: thefe huskes 
that beare the flowers, after they are dry become the feed vefl'els, which being ripe, are divided into three parts or 
cells, each containing abundance of white halfe round light biparted feed, clofqly compadt together: therooteis 
very great, comparable to the refl of the plant, two or three cubits long, harder than the former, giving a number 
of young fprours yearely, which being feparated and planted, will quickly take roote in the groundj and grow up; 
but muft be kept from cold in the Winter, and will not defire to be much watered. 
The Place, 
The firfl groweth in Arabia Afia, Syria, and all the Eaft Countries, and in India, as well a great way within the 
land, as neare the Sea fide, and in the Ilands there, as in Socotora as Cjarcia* faith, where the beft is made, as alio in 
many places of Italy, and in Spaine about Andaloufia neare the Sea fhore in fuch plenty, that divers thought to have 
made goodftore of Aloes there, but after triall was made, it was not found any way fo effeftuall as tbe Indian fort. 
The other fort grew firfl in America, (which being brought into Spaine, was from thence, fpread into all quarters ) 
and in that abundance about C Mexico, as Vines doe in Spaine , which they there ufe to plant, to ferve them in ftead 
ofhedges, ss well to feparate as to defend the limits of their grounds. 
7 he Time. 
They flower m the hotter Countries, in the firfl Summer Moneths,bat never in thefe colder, for they are prefer¬ 
red with great care from the frofts in Winter, which will caufe them quickly to rotte,if they fcele never fo lit¬ 
tle almoft. 
The Names. 
The firfl is the A’awi of Dhfcoryics t and all others both ancient and moderne Writersy and as Pena faith, becaufc 
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