3 . CMyrobalanw Bellerica. The round Myrobalane,or purging Indian Plum! 
I The round Myrobalane is like the reft for growth, but bearing leaves like the Bay tree, yet of a palef greene 
iUcolour, and Come what afhcoloured (underneath peradventure) withall: the fruit is of a meane bignes, round, 
bandfmooth, yet being as it were three fquare in many, and of a pale ruffettifln colour when they are frcfb, but 
Gofadarkeordufty whitifh colour on theoutfide, being dry, of the thinned fubttanceor lead fleftiy of any of 
itthem : the ftone whereof is thicke greater then any other, proportionable to the fruit, very hard to break, with 
■a kernelllwithin of a reafonable bignefle. 
4. CMyrobalamti Emblica. The bearded or fix fquare Myrobalane or purging Indian Plum. 
t The tree thatbeareth this Myrobalane or delicate Plum, being like a Plum tree for height and manner of 
0 growing(as you have heard before that Garz'uu faith fo of them all) hath leaves of a palme or handbreadth long, 
jYvcry finely cut in or divided on the edges : the fruit is round in fhew, but doth feparate or will be broken into 
j :fix parts, as both we have obferved in the dry fruit, alwayes brought unto us, broken into fmall peeces,without 
yianyftones; and more plainely in the fruit preferved, whereof good ftorehath beene brought over many times 
j unto us, which will be divided into many parts:the ftone whereof within it is fix fquare, with three greater rid- 
f 2ges,and three leffer lying betweene them, and bearded at the head of the three greater ridges, the kernell with- 
ti in it being feparated into the three feverall divifions, having each of them two calls, wherein the parts of the ker- 
II nelllye almoft three fquare. 
5 . c 'Myrobalatiw Indica, The blacke Myrobalane or purging Indian Plum. 
r The blacke Myrobalane tree is like the reft; whofe leafe (as Garzsiat faith) is like unto a Willow leafe: the 
irfrait faith Gw as is eight fquare, which may be when they are frefh, but they cannot be fo plainely difeerned 
■i in thofe that are brought over unto us dry, the fmalleft of all the reft, fome what long, altogether fieflay, with- 
SJ out any ftone in the middle,and the blacked of any. 
The Place . 
\ Ail thefe fruits grow in the Eaft Indies wild and not manured, but in divers provinces, as fome in Goa and 
Batecala , others in Malavar and Dabul. Yet Garzias faith foure forts grow in the kingdome of Cambay a, and 
. the Chebuls m r Bifnagar J Decan^Guzaratc (which we call at this time Surrate) and Bengala ; Belloniwi ,aith in 
1 his booke of obfervations that the yellow Myrobalanes grow in Arabia and Syria t and alfo in the plaines of Hie - 
^ richo ) but I doe much doubt of the certainty thereof and thinke rather that he was miftaken. 
The Time. 
7 We know fo little of the trees,that we know leffe of their time of flowring or bearing fruit. 
The Thames. 
Thefe kind of fruirs were not any of themknowne unto any of the antient Greeke writers, as Diofcorides, 
v Tbeophraftits or Galen, neither unto Pliny t for although hee maketh mention of a Myrobalanus, yet heeaddeth 
Troglodytesj which is the Ben } B alarms UWyrepfica, or Gians p'rtgnentaria, as 1 ihewed you a little before 9 
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