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The Theater of Plants. 
GHAP.43. 
Zhyphus five lujuba major* 
The greater lujube tree. 
at the foote of every leafe towards the toppes of the 
titfigges come forth* fmall yellowifh flowers, of five leaves 
a peece, where afterwards (land the fruite, which is fome- 
• what like unto a Irtiall Plumme or Olive, but a little long, 
greene at the firft, and then it is fomewhat harfh, and yel- 
lowifh after, but red and of a reafonable fweetenefle, yet 
flbarpe withall,and fomewhat clammy when they are ripe, 
flat as it were at the lower end, next the ltalke, whofe skin 
is thicker and harder than a plumme, and the done within it 
is fmall firme and folid, long,round and pointed like unto an 
Olive or Cornelian Cherry ftone, both for forme and hard- 
nefle ; all the branches both greater and finaller are armed 
with thorns,t wo al wayes at a j’oynt, wherof the one is long, 
ftrong, fharpe pointed andftaight, and the other crooked, 
both of them of ablackilh red colour, like unto the eider 
branches: the rootes are long and firme in the ground. 
2. Zhyphusfive lujuba minor. Theleffer lujube tree. 
This letterlujube tree is very like unto the former, both 
; for the forme of branches Jeaves and flowers, but lower and 
fmaller in all parts, the fruite alfo is alike, red when it is 
ripe, with fuch an hard firme Olive like done, as the for¬ 
mer, but the fruite hereof is fmaller and rounder, and not 
long like as the other is: it is as thickely and ftrongly armed 
with thomes though fomewhat fliorter than the other. 
3 .Zhyphus five lujuba [y he fir is. The 
Wilde lujube tree. 
This low Wilde lujube tree groweth much lower, and 
more like a fhrubbe than the lalt, and more cruelly armed 
alfo with fmali fharpe thornes: the leaves are like but fmall, 
growing in the fame manner, but fewer on a twigge: the 
flowers are like the other, the fruite is round and red like 
the laft,and fomewhat leffer, but dryer of fubftance, not 
having fuch a pulpic fubftance as either of the former have, 
and more auftere even when it is ripeft. 
The Place t 
I The firfl: groweth naturally in Africa, Egypt, Arabia & Syria 
: & thofe more Eafterly Countries, fro whence as Tliny faith 
it was brought into Italy , and planted there in his time by Sextus Papinius , in the latter end of C*f*r Auoufius hfe 
i reigne, which now a dayes is very frequent, not onely in many gardens, and Orchards of Italy, but in ^Provence 
I of France alfo : it is fo tender that it leldome abideth long in our Country, becaufe it cannot endure the cold* 
•The other like wife was brought into Italy in thefe later times from Syria, where it is onely to be ieene, but with 
I a few that are lovers of rarities. 1 he laft groweth wilde, in the fieldea by the hedges, not farre from Verona, 
j aboundantly as Pona faith. 
The Time, 
They all fhoote forth in A prill (for none of them doe hold their leaves all the winter; and flower in May t 
i their fruite is ripe in September. 
The Names. 
It is called in Greeke (j(v$eL &r Zhypha &Zinzipha, of (folumella Ziziphus, of Clufius Ziziphus rutilaj 
! of others Rubra and pumcea, and of the Arabians from whom the Apothecaries tooke it \ujube, and fodoe Lobel 
' ana Pena.j Anyfiillara tninketh it to be the Lotus of Athanaus , as alfo the Lotus of Theophrafius, that "rew in the 
[| Ifland Pharts, mentioned in lib. 4, c. 4. which is moll likely, for it hath a dented leafe as he laith like unto Ilex j 
i whereunto this is more like, than the leafe of the Lotus arbor, whereof I have made mention in my formed 
- booke. Some doe thinke that this fruite is that which Galen in 2, alimentorum calleth Serica , and unto this opi“ 
i nion many doe adhere, elpecially becaufe Avicen entreating of Iujubes calleth them Serica, for his title is thus, 
• l)cliijiwis iaeft Sericfi, yet it is no other likely, but that he was miftaken, for many worthy and learned men, doc 
: doubt or it: but Pliny maketh mention of Sericum, before Galens time, in his 15. booke aryl 14. chap, to be one 
of the kinc es of Tuberes (which W’CtiketohtNuciperficaJVeflorins, for in his 16. booke 25. chap. Ik recko- 
neth the Tuberes, with the Almonds, Peaches, and Apricocks, as if they were all of one kindred, and in his 17 
1 booke and 10. chap, he faith that the Tuberes, are beft grafted on the W ilde Plumme &c.and therefore it is likd- 
ly he thought them of that kinde ofPlummes) of the colour of raw filke (and we have a yellow NePlorin neere 
1 unto that colour) whereof came the namejwhich’maketh me thinke that Galen his S ericum faouid not differ from 
| Phnyes, feeing they lived not any long time, one before the other inRome, and therefore the name could not bee 
1; there altered : for Cjalen rather allowing ofthofe things that were conduciblc to medicine, (and we know that 
Iujubes are fo) then of fuch as did pleafe the palate onely,as 'NeHorins are, and were fit and dtfired of wari- 
i ton women and children onely as he faith, did not greatly commend the fruite for any good to the bodies health, 
j yet I verily thinke, and of this opinion is (fornarius alfo, that his and P liny e s Seric uni are all one. And although 
Matthiolus feemeth to finde fault with Plinye his booke to be falfe,in naming but one fort of Zhyphus ,and two of 
: the Tuberes, when as Columella , *Avicen, and Sethi , make two forts of Zhyphus , yet afluredly their other white 
lS ^° 0< ? ° nely t0 footed beafts, in the fame manner that Oleander doth. The other Cord^ 
in his hiflory of plants maketh mention of, and calleth it lujuba minor , and whichmaketh me to thinke it to bee a 
' ; Tubcr a 1: is very probable to be the Paliurus Jfricanm of Theophrafttts , and the Zhyphus fylveflris of Luyfinnenjis 
for, 
