Tbeatrum Botanicum. 
246 Chap. 41. 
RI B E,2. 
calleth it Arbor trifolia, diverfe doc call the lead Laburnum,?aba in verft.Gerardhis figure of Anagyritfattida, mi 
Amgyrit, are ;he lame that are in Matthiolue, but the titles are contrary, for Gerard his Anagyrit ftetida, is the 
Eghelo or Andgyris altera in AAatthiolui.lt is probable in my opinion,that the fmallerX^arnxm fhould be thatCa- 
lytea of Theofhrajlus, which is fet down in the 14.r-.of his third book, with a willow leafe: for if you take any one 
leafe by it felf.it may wel refe mble a Willow leafejboth for forme and colour.and beareth fmall feeds in cods,like 
unto pulfe as that doth: Cjefncr did rcferre this kinde unto the mountaine Cytifut, bat AAatthiolui reprooveth him 
for it : the great booke of Eysietenfis calleth it Anagyrit laifolia, but I call it Laburnum majut, as I doe the lad 
Laburnum minut , 
The Vertltes. 
The leaves as well as the feede of the firfl Beane trefoile, are a (Iron" vomit, efpecially in the hot Countries, 
where it groweth,and Honorius Bellw writing thereof to Clujim, faith that in Candy, where that kind groweth 
with rounder leaves, if the Goates or fhcepedo chance to feed thereon.thc milke which they give will caufe any > 
that (hall take it, to fall as well into extreame fcouring downewards asdrong cading upwards, and that many ■ 
thereby have beene brought in danger of their lives: the young leaves faith ‘Diofcorides applyed unto tumors or 
dwellings,dil'cufleth andreprefleththem; andifadram of the powderof them, bedrunke in wine, as he faith 1 
alfo, it expelleth both the dead birth, and the lecondine, and likewifebringeth downe the monethly courfes i 
of women; iffomeof theleaves.be bound to thofethat have hard and uneafie travell in child bearing, it cauleth i 
a fpeedy delivery of the birth, bin they mud bee taken away preftntly afterwards; they are likewife given ini 
wine to thofe that are fhort winded, andtofuchas are often troubled with the head-ach : thebarkeof the roote : 
hath a dwelling ripening and difeufling quality : both the other forts here fet downe, have the fame properties,, 
for they are alio ol the l ime temperature, but Afatthio/ta faith, that he hath knowne, thatfome that havetaken 1 
ignorantly of the feede of the leffer Beane trefoile, have had flrong vomitings even unto blood : Solerius infche- ■ 
liis in esEtium |aith,tbatby certaine and undoubted experience it hath fceer.e found,that a dramme either more or 1 
lefl'e.ofthedryed bark thereof made into powder,and taken in any kind of drink, purgeth very llrongly both up. . 
wards and downewards,but in a diverfe manner; for ifashe faith, ('which I take rather to be but a concede) the: 
barke be pulled oft'from the tree upwards, it will caufe vomitings, if downewards great purging of the belly / 
downewards : the Bees faith / liny, refute to touch the flowers of this Laburnum, which is the leffer Beane: 
Trefoile, but it hath beene trucly obferved, that both in the natuiall places where it groweth, as alfo with us, 
that the Bees doe not refufe to feede upon them : the Cfrecians have an ufuall provetfce with them, Anagyrin ; 
when they would fignifie one, that workethas wee fay his owne woe, or is the caufe of his owner 
harme. 
Chap. XL I. 
Myrobalani. Myrobalans or purging Indian Plummes.' 
B Lthough there lie noneofthefe Myrobaland trces(whereofarc S forts offruites well known & didin- ■ 
guilhcd in the Apothecaries Ihops) growing in any of theie C hriftian Countries of Europe, as far as 
ever 1 could learne yet I could doe no leffe than make mention of them here,both tecaufe the fruites 
are often uled in Phyficke among other purgcrs.and to make it knowne to all that might be miftaken 1 
by the name, andthinke that the Myrobalane Plummes, the red and the white that 1 have remem-•: 
bred in my former book, be fome of tlrefe kindes: but fo they arc not, neither for forme nor quality r as alfo to : 
ftir up fome ingenious mind among our Merchants,that trade to Aleppo & Cairo, & into Ptrjia and the Eafl Indies, j 
to give order to their fadtors.if they doe it not themfelves,to enquire and l’ceke out fuch of the forts that are to: 
be found in the places of their abode, and either to plant the (tones of thefe fcverall kinds in thole warmer 11 
countries, if they abide any time in them, that when they are a little growne they might then fend them hither: .1 
or fend the frefh {lories over hither to us ( for thofe are too dry that are brought for phyfitke life) that wee may , 
plant them here to try if they will not growe and abide with 11s, that at lead, having but a fight of the forme of 
the leaves of any fort, we might compare them with the deferiptions that writers have made of them, whether 1 
they are anfwerablc thereunto • I mult in the meane time therefore but (hew you them as Gdrzias and others 1 
before me have done, with fuch delcriptions as they gave of them, and are extant, not knowing whether they, 
be true or no. 
r. Myrobalamu Citrina. The yellow Myrobalane or purging Indian Plum. 
The tree that beareth thefe yellow Myrobalanes is faidtogrow as great as a Plum tree, having many bran- 1 
ches and winged leaves on them like unto the true Service tree :the fruit is for the moll part as bigge as read)-, 
nable Plums, fomewbat long and net fully round, but having many faire ridges on the outfide, efpecially when r 
it isdryed.fhewingittobefive fquare though round,of a yellower colour on the outfide then any of the reft; the 1 
fiefh or lubftance being of a reafonable thicknefle, yet not fo thicke as the Chebuli.or Emblici, nor fo thin as the 1 
Bcllerici ; the (lone is white thicke,and very hard to breake, with emniences and ridges alfo therein, and a very; 
fmall long kernell lying in the middle, of an inllringent tafte as the dryed fruit is alfo, but much more then it:this 
hath no fuch kernell that thereout may be preffed an oyle, as "Bellomut noteth of the kernells of that fruit that hee 
tooke to bee the yellow Myrobalane tree, in the plaines of Hiericho as he noteth it, in hb.Obfervatiomim 1. 
cap,%0. 
j. cALyrobalanut Chebula. The purple Myrobalane, or purging Indian Plum. 
This kind ofMyrobalane tree growing in ftatureand branches like a Plum (as Gnrrias faith all the forts are) 
bearing leaves on the branches like unto the Peach tree : the fruit hereof is the greatefl and longed of all the: 
five forts, ofa blackifh purple colour on the outfide while it is frefh,which it holdeth in the dry fruit; (which: 
Matthiolue commended for the bed) being five fquare as the former, ofthethickefl fubflarce, and mote flcfhy 
then any other, and with the fmalled done in the middle, not fully lo hard to breake as the former, but with: 
the dualled kernell therein. 
5. MyrobaUmut 
