X R I B E 2. 
TheTbe/iter of ‘ 'Plantes . 
Chap. 14,. 18$ 
4. Fniflus Ricini Anuricam. 
Palma Chrifti of Amctica feede. 
Ricimu major jifticanus Syrtacuivele^gyptiui. Palma Chrifti of Syria,&c t 
Camerarius in his hbrtits medicos, maketh mention of another fort whofe feede was twice fo bigge as the for¬ 
mer the colour whereof was not fo pale or fpotted,and came as he faith out of Syria. This is very probale to be 
that hot violent fort, that Aldinus in his Farneftan garden remembreth, being brought from zdEgypt, the halfc 
part of whofe feede being taken by a ftrong 
young man of twenty yeares,mightily troubled 
with the headach,purged him very forcibly and 
eafed his paines.but in that lie chewed the feede 
in his mouth (and did not fwallow it whole 
without chewing as it (hould have beene ) it in¬ 
flamed his throate and mouth of his ftomacke fo 
violently, that after he had endured an ague, in¬ 
tolerable thirft, and fainting of the fpirits.nine 
dayes after the taking thereof he dyed,notwith- 
flanding the care of three Phyfitions with all 
the remedies they could ufe. Of the feede be¬ 
ing, fct fprung up a plant greater than the for¬ 
mer, whofe leaves were larger more crumpled 
and redder in other things little differing. 
3. Adinor. 
There is another kinde alfo but letter in ever£ 
part thereof, although it grow in the fame 
ground, whofe feede being ripe is evidently ob- 
ferved to be much leffer: This is not remembred by any Authour that hath written thereof before Cluftus in the 
fecondbooke ofhis Exoticfte, and z I chapter, and V'jUrm that fct forth the Btfhopof Eyftot his garden, ,na 
great large volume, whofe feede that we firft faw came from the ‘Bermudas, where they made oyle thereof, and 
grew with us in that manner before expretted. 
4.. Ricinus Americanus, Palma Chrifti of America. 
The Palma ChriJH of America differed from the firft, and fecond fort, not onely in the greatneffe, for as OWo- 
uardiu & A Idimts fay it groweth to be a much greater tree,chan any growing m JW whofe firft leaves were al- 
moft round & bigger than the firftjbut thofe that follow are broad and tome on the: edges.mto fundry corners, in 
the feede there is feme difference alfo, which although they be three alwayes joynedtogether,yet the outer huske 
is nor rouoh or prickely, but fmooth and of an afhcolour, the innermoft feede it felfe, being fomewhat like the 
other.but more blacke and not fpotted at al.and is as oyle as the firft,for thereof as I here,there is madegood ftore 
of oyle which ferveth in the fleede of oyle for any outward ufes. Cluftus remembreth a v-Cry fmall fort of this 
Indian kind, whofe feede is the ftnalleft of all other,even fmaller than the former fmall kinde, which was brought 
from America . • 
The Place. 
The firft groweth in Spam as Cluftus faith, to a great largcnefleas Is before fayd, and m Candy vs Be/lomus 
faith,the greater kind, whereof Camerarius maketh mention, groweth in Syria, & Africa, and as Aldinus faith in 
*A£gypt. The firft letter fort in America, and Guinea as Cluftus faith,in the place before remembred.The great kind 
of America, Monarches faith groweth in Getifco a province of new Spaine ,from whence an oyle made of the feede 
thereof is brought, of much ufe as you fhallheare by and by : and the laft and lcaftofall other, wasbroughc 
from Brafill as Cluftus faith in the 25 chapter ofhis 2 booke of Exoticks the ninth rruic. 
The Time. 
Thofe that grow with us flower not untill the beginning of Augufl, and their feede doth feldome come to per* 
feeft ripenette in this Country. 
The Names, 
' It is called by Diofuridei in Greeke ili j'feh*r. Cici & (>«», a Crotcmsftve ricini ammalii /imilituiine, ijuod 
'refortfemen. Arias Mont arms in bis Commentaries upon Unas, faith that the hebrew word Kikajon (which is 
ncerc the Greeke Kiki ) doth fignifie this plant, although S. lerome did trandate the word to be Hedera, and our 
Engl,ft bibles have it, a Gourd chat was rayfed up by God to fhelter lonas from the heate ol the Sun. Uriahc. 4.of 
fome PentaiaSylus^Mefues Cjranum Reghm-Cafalpmus from the Italian name Cjirafote tooke it to be Heliotro- 
ptum D iofroridts, but mod commonly it is called Ricmus & Talma Chrifti, and in the Apothecaries (hops Cataputia 
major, the oyle whereof is known to the mod of them,by the name of Oleum de Cherva, yet it is alfo called Oleum 
Cicinum, as well as that oyle made of the Indian feed, brought from thence: In Spaine they call the feede of the 
ordinary as well as the Indianiort, Figuo del inferno, and thereafter fome call it Ficus infernalts. The lener kinde 
Cluftus faith in the fame place before mentioned is called Erarray by the Indians. The great Indian kinde, Clu¬ 
pus faith is called Cure as in America, we to diftinguilh it from the former kind,do call it Ricmus Americas,or 
Amcricams , Palma Chrifti of America. The Arabians call it Cherva, the Italians Mira[ole,q,rafole,Cr Cataputia 
magyiore, the French Talma Chrifti, the Germanes Winderbaum, the ‘Dutch (JHolenkruit and Wor.derboome, and wt 
in Englijh Palma Chrifti, or great Spurge. 
The Vertices, 
The feede of Palma Chrifti is almoft wholly ufed, and the leaves frut feldome, yet 3°feedes denfed from the 
huskes, being bruifed, and taken in drinke faith c Diofcorides (but fiftatts In his Commentaries upon Mefues judg* 
eth this to be a fault in the writers of the coppy of Diofcorides , fetting 30 for 3. and yet that is the utI ^ofti aexor- 
ding to the dofe of thofe times as I have fayd diverfe times before) doth pur«je cholcr and flegme, ana draw wa* 
ter abundantly from the belly, provoking Vrinc alfo; which manner of purgings as T'iofcorides himfelfe conref- 
feth, doth trouble the ftomacke and overturned: mightily yet with good advifeit maybe given to ftrong and 
ablebodyes, with Anifeed or Tennellfeede, who are troubled with the dropfie, Joynt aches,the gout and lciatica, 
becaufe it draweth water and flegme very ftrongly, from the more remote parts. Durantes advifeth fome at the 
