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other fort of Cajfia is more effeftuall in purging, for it hath beene tryed by experience, that one ounce hereof 
is as forcible as two buncts of the other, and is effeftuall to all the difeafes aforefayd. 
Chap. XXXIIII. 
Silicjua dulcisfive Qeratonia, The fvveete Beane or Carob tree. 
JF this kind of fweete Beane or Carob tree,there hath beene one other alfo lately found out,and made 
knovvnerothe world by Ponat for the ordinary fort, being well knowne to mod, eipecially in 
Spaine and half, and other the hotter Countries of the Eaft, is remembi ed by the ancients. 
1. Stlujna duUit five vulgatior. The ordinary fweete Beane or Carob tree. 
The Carobeot fweete Beane tree that hath beene oflongeft knowledge to all, groweth in the hot 
Countries,as Spainemd half, to be a very great tree covered with an alh coloured barke, lpreading very much in 
breadth with very faire great branches, the younger being reddifh at the fiifl, whereon doe grow fpariedly 
winged leaves, very like unto the leaves of the purging Cajfia tree, but that they arc rourtder at the ends or i 
points, and fomewhat harder in handling, of a darke greene colour on the upperfidc, and ofa paler greene under- ' 
neath: it beareth a long catkin in the winter, like unto that ot theWallnut, which in the fpring time optneth ;; 
into many darke purplifh flowers, and afterwards bringeth crooked cods, of the bignefle of a large beane cod, in ij 
fome larger in others fmaller, greene at the firft, and of abrowmfli colour, when theyare ripe; wherein are J 
flatand round feedes, very like unto thofe of Cajfia, and are ofanunpleafanttafte, while theyare frelh, butga- i 
ther more fweetenefle being kept to be dry : the fhell thereof although hard is eaten, afwell as the inner lub- ; 
fiance; which that I may ufe the words of Tlmye, is neither of a flefhie wooddy orskinnie fubftance, but of them :| 
all as it were mixed together. In the hotter countries ot India Sec. as Strabo m\\\a Geoghraphie writing of the :| 
treesof /Wilt doth report, thcreisacertainethickefubftancelyingwithin tliefe cods, which being taken forth I 
ferveth the Indians, and thofe other people where they grow in (lead of Sugar or Honey, to preferve the young 
cods of Cajfia, C in car, Gflfirobalans, and other fruites withall. 
2. Caroba five Siliijnaex Gumeapurgatrix, The Carob or purging Beane of Gitmye. 
The Carob or purging Beane of Cjimy, groweth no doubt in his naturall place, robe a great tree, but in the 
lefle warme Countries, as Iru/; whereunto it was firft brought, it cannot doc fo : but flieweth by the growing . 
that it much differeth not from the former, bearing his leaves after the fame manner; the finite (for we have no . 
knowledge ofthe flower as yet) is crooked thicke and Ihort (and as Tcna faith, fomewhat like an Anacarde or 
Cajoles) about three inches long, ofa browne colour on the outfide, very like unto the other, having a bowing ; 
or roundneffe all the length of the backe, and an eminence or lid as it were in the hollowrdlc within which is ; 
foure or five fomewhat rounder and nor fo flat feedes, 
more pointed below and round at the head - the tafte is ; 
more (harpe and quicke, even almoft burning the throate, 
which peradventure is 1 ut from the nature cf the hot : 
C ountn,where it grew and may grow more milde,after it 
hath beene inured unto a n on temperate climate. 
The 'Place, 
The firft as is before fayd groweth in all the South and ! 
Haft Countries, as Ir.Aia, Armenia, Syria, Arabia, Egypt, 
&ic and in Greece, Spaine, Italy, Crc. frequently in many 
take mentio 
siliquo dulcis va Igtiriar. 
The ordinary fweete Beane or Carob tree. 
places, as both Matthiolm and Cl a fill- make mention : the : 
other is originally from Gimy, and b fit forth onely by Po- 
na of Verona, inbis Italian booke, who had it from Signor 
Contarni of Venice, 
The Time, j 
The firftflowreth in the very beginning of the fpring,and i 
I. Floret erfruHus SiLiqua dulcu Hi far be 
i, El ex Guinea, 
the 
