i?oo Chap. 72. Ibeatrum c Botanicum. Tribei 
blood red colour both within and without, fomewhat fweetc like unto them, but not fo pUafinc. 
The Place va&Time. 
This tree groweth in divers places of the Eaft Indies, asat Goa.Malacca.&c. and abideth alwaves preen 
giving ripe fruite at the time with others in that Country. ’ » 
The Names. 
This tree is mentioned fitft by d?. Cartiue, l,k 9. who wrote the afts of Alexander, inhiswarres intori 
Indies, and by Theopbrajhv alio lib.^.c. 5. who lived neerethit time, andcallechit Ficus Indica asP/ivrall 
hkti.c.y after him doth; Strain alio although hee gave it no name then,or of the admirable tree vethen 
by you may perceive that it is no new found tree m theie later dayes, but knowne and written of bv’ the Anc 
ents. Goropms would di aw this tree into Paradife, and make it the tree of the knowledge of good and evill rhi 
God had planted tn the mtdfl thereof, and forbad Adam the eating,end of which by eating, he brought a woe o 
htmfelfe and htspofterity, fo bold is he to take upon him to know that which he hath no authority or nroofc fo. 
but onely led by fanfie and ftrong conceit, about the river Ace fine,[n thofe parts where this groweth and there 
fore Paradice mull needs be there alfo. The Portupeals call ic Arbor de ray, that is the tree of rootes' and there 
upon Linfchate in his Booke figureth a tree with a number of rootes thereto, rather out of fanev then fiohr whirl 
Clufim mtfltked. Some doe call It Arbor Gee, but of mod Ficus ImUca, and I have added arcuataiix a diffe 
rence from others. 
The Vermes. 
The fruite is good and wholefome tobe eaten,but I cannot learne if ever it was applyed to cure anv wound n 
ulcer in the body,or ufed in Phylicke, for any difeafe. 1 
Chap. LXXII. 
Pyrtu. The Peare tree. 
Ecaufe Pearcs are fo like unto Figges tn the outward forme of them, I thinkegood to joyne then 
next thereunto, whereof there is both manured and wilde : the manured doe transforme them 
I “dyes into lo many fevcrall falhions,colours, and talks, that it would take up many leaves to de- 
, lenbe them at large as they might be, for not onely every Country abroad, and beyond the Seas 
I have fevcrall forts,which we never law or heard of,but in our owne Land alfo, there are fo manv 
that: it is almofl impoffiblcthat they fhould all come to one mans cerraine and petticular know- 
'e I ihcwcd VOU 3 manv nf rhem in mu Orrharrl hprpmfran- \ c _... n_. 
, , / , , inouiu au come to one manscertaine and perticular know 
ledge (yet have I (hewed y ou a many of them in my Orchard heretofore.) Of the wild forts likewile there arc 
2. Pjrusf)lvcfiru, The wilde or Choke Peare tree. 
Tymfaivi. The manured Peare tree. 
