Tribe.*. The Theater ofT (ants. Chap.#. i^y 
the fr uiie is riper in the hot timeef the Sommer onely; oftheother there is no further knowledge asvee, 
than of the fruite. ' The Names. 
It is called in Greeke w£ft7M, Ceratia oiDiofcorides,idejl,fi.liqua,& ntgutttU O' rtf me. CerMonia&firomti 
quafi comma Siliqna,oi Galen.sAigineta and others,becaufe the cods are crooked, or bowin'* inwards 'like a lithe 
or home: Cut that filiqua whereof Theophrajhu maketh mention in his fourth bookeand fecend chapter, and 
which the Ionians called Ceronia, and fome as he faith ficus eAEgyptia, but fallely, with a white flower and fruite 
growing from the body of the tree, more plentifully than from the branches, cannot bee this filiyua } 
but fome other, even as tugdmenfis and others affirme alfo: Plinye calleth it Siliqua dulcis and fo 
doth Alpinus and others: in fome Apothecaries (hops beyond Sea XjlocaraEla or rather Xjlocaratia the/Ira¬ 
nians call it Charnebium, in Italy they call it (farobe and Carobole.mi in Naples Salequa, corruptly, from filiqua as 
CMatthiohu faith, th e Spaniards call it Algarrovtu, the Germaines and Dutch call it Saint loans brot , that is. Same 
Johns bread, fuppofing that Saint John fed upon thefe fruites, and wilde honey, while he did abide in the wilder-, 
neffe of Iudea, as in OUatth. 3.4. but they are much deceived, for the word in the Hebrew text (as Junius and 
Tremellius doe note upon the uverf.of the 11. chap, of Levitticus is Arbis, ( whereof there were foure kindes 
of each whereof it was lawfull for the Ifraelites to eate ) mandated into Greeke in Latine Locufia, which 
are kindes of grafhoppers, peculiar to thofe Eafterne Countries, much differing from ours: but this .filiqua or 
fweete Beane tree, is the fame mentioned in the 15 chap.and i6verf. ofthe Gofpell according to Saint Luhe^ 
whereof the fwine fed themfelves, and the prodigall child would iaine have eaten of theiritaftay his hunger, 
but could not have them : for in all thefe Countries where they grow, the poorer fort of people doe often eatc 
them, and the hogges for the moil part confume the reft: the leede of this Beane, was that kinde of weight in 
ancient times called Karat, and among the goldftnithes a Carret, weighing fixe grames f ormerly, although iii 
thefe dayes they account it to be but foure. 
The Vertues. 
The fruite while it is frefh and new gathered, helpcth to purge the belly, but being dryed doth rather binde if,' 
and is then more bcneficiall to the ilomacke, than while it is frefh, becaufe it fomewhat troubled! it with the 
evill take, and hard digeiling thereof: the fweete fubilance within them, is often alfo ufed as honey, both to 
looien the belly, almoft as much as the extrafled pulpe of Caflia.mi is alfo good for the inflammations ofthe 
reines and backe to temper the heate, and is effedtuall in the difeafesof the chert, as coughes and fhortnefl'eof 
breathes as Cajfiai s, which things alfo the decoffion of the cods, performeth very well: Cjalen in his lecond 
booke of Aliments, condemned! the life of them for meate, faying they are hard of difgertion, and are not eaiily 
avoyded forth of the body: andinhisfeventh booke of Ample medicines, hee faith they are of a drying and 
binding quality, although they conteine in them iome fweetenefle, and that they are fomewhat like unto Cher¬ 
ries, that being freih they loofen the belly, and being dry binde it, becaufe the moyft fubilance being confirmed: 
the thicker eifence remaineth. 
Chap. XXXV. 
Tamarmdus. The Tamarind or lower Beane tree. 
8 He Tamarind or fower Beane tree groweth to be as great as a Plum tree with many branches thicke fee 
with pale grecnc winged leaves, that is many fet together on both tides of the middle rib but fmalier 
then either thofe ofthe Cajfia or Carob tree, having alwayes an eddeone at the end,which ufually clofc 
themlelvestogetlier, bothitthcfcttingoftkfuniie, andtipoa nine, and open againe at the rilin'* 
ithereof, and faire weather, of a fower or acide tafte : the flowers are fomewhat large and white, like unto flow- 
iers of the Orange tree, confiding of eight leaves, imelling very fweete, having foure (mall white threds,[landing 
in tile middle about the umbone, which after groweth to be the fruite, and when it is ripe, is much larger, 
than any kidney beane cod, fome greater and lefle than others, as in all forts ol fruite, fomewhat bending or croo- 
tked, wherein is contained a blackefubftance,not diftinguifhed into cels, as the CaJT" 1 folutiva is, but the leede 
lying difperled among the pulpe , hath diverfe bigge and long rtrings running through it, of a very acide 
d'owre or fliarpe fweete tafte, very pleafing to the palate and ilomacke: theieedeor kernels are greater thart 
thole of Caflia, and as it were fquare and fomewhat flat alfo-.the tree never loofech his leafe, but will endure 
: no cold, as hath becnc often tryed in thofe colder Countries. 
The Place. • 
J l , tree nawral, y groweth in many places in the Haft Indies as Garcias faitbyit is onely nouriflicd as a ftrangej 
both in -Arabia and Egypt in their Orchards. a 
j _ The Time. 
We have no certaine know ledge of the time of flowring- or the bearing of ripe fruite. 
The Names. 
It is called by the Arabians (for none ofthe ancient Greeke writers hath made any mention of it) Tamarin . 
due that is the Date tree of India, for Tuwitr fignificth a Date with them, and of the later Greeke writers Oxy- 
phsmeon, that is the fower Date tree; but both of them very unfitly, for it may very well be perceived that it is 
nothing like unto any kinde of Date tree, Lacuna following Meftscs, calleth \t‘D ally his Jndicus , ofthe Greeke 
word dallylus that fignifieth a finger, which the fruite doth very well refemble, being bowed or crooked like 
unto a bowed or bended finger: fome take it to be Pala of Pliny , whereof he maketh mention in his 12 booke 
■,™ a P •f° me a gainp thinke that it differeth nothing from the PalmuUThebaica of Diofcorides, the Dates 
°>! r e °‘ S : „ an ^ * Dccau ^ e ' c fhould not want an Englifi/ name, according to the property thereof, I have called it 
the lowre Beane tree, for that the fruite or cod is fo like a great kidney Beane cod. 
J . The Vertues. 
The inward pulpe of th t Tamarind is very effeftuall to purge choller, and therefore is of great good ufe in all 
not or pelt lleptiall agues, it openeth the obftruftions both of the liver and fpleene, and therefore is profitable^ a- 
gainft 
