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G h a p. L XXX V. 
Lotiu, The Lote or Netde tret. 
|«§Lthongh divers Aotboun have publifhed fundry trees, under the name o( Zotw.as Injuivt, L»uroctr*~ 
and many others, yet there is knowne unto us but one true kinde, that is called Lum, theLote 
[ or Nettle tree, yet I thinke not amin; to j'oyne two or three other plants, which may not unfitly be re¬ 
ferred to it. ’ 
Lotm five Crhii urban The Lote or Nettle tiee. 
The true Lote or Nettle tree gtoweth to a gi eat heighth, whole body and elder branches are covered with a 
fmooth darke greene barke, the younger being more greene, whereon grow fomewhat rough or hard leaves 
long pointed,and fometvhat deepely dented about the edges, like unto a Nettle leafe, of a rfai ke greene colour* 
and often grow yellowtoward Autumns: the flowers hand here and there feattered on the btanches,after which 
come round berries like unto Cherries, hanging downewards upon long footeftalkcs greene at the firft whitifli 
after wards,and reddifh when they are full ripe, but blackifh if they be futfered to hang too long on the branches 
of a pleafant auflere take, with an hard round (lone within them. There is (aid by Tb'opbrdftm,\i ib\s be his firft 
' Lotm, to be another fort without ftoncs, vvhcreofWinc was made, that would not laft above two or three 
dayes. 
a . eyirhor Guajacann five Guajactim Pautvinum. The Indian Date Piumme tree. 
The Indian Lote tree groweth great, with a fmoo h darke greene barke, (hooting forth many large boughes 
and (lender green branches,befet wich faire and lome what broad green leaves, fomewhat like unto the leaves of 
the Cornell tree, but larger, without any dents on the edges, the flowers grow along on the branches, clofc let 
unto them, without any or with a very fliort tooteftalke under them; confiding of toure greene leaves as the 
huskc, and foure other within, of a darke purplifh red colour, the fruitc that followeth ftandeth in the middle 
of the faidhmke, doling it round at the bottome, and is greene at the firft, and very harfh, but red and round 
when it is ripe, and fomewhat like a Piumme, with a (mall point at the head, and then of a reafonable plealant 
taftc or rellifh, wherein in the hotter climates, butfeldome in ours or not with me, are contained thicke and 
fiat brownc griftely feedes or kernels, fomew hat like unto the kernells of CtffiiFijhtU, which may be fomewhat 
eafily cut with a knife. 
5. Guaj cum Fattvinum atif uflifotium. The Indian Date Piumme tree with narrow leaves. 
This differeth litcle fiom the laft,either in ftemme or fruite,but onely in the leafe, which is longer and larger 
then it. 
Lotui arbor. 
The Nettle tree. 
Gaajacum Puavinum. 
The Indian Date Piumme tree. 
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