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EXOTICA 
ET 
PEREGRINE PLANTS. 
STRANGE AND OVT 
LANDISH PLANTES. 
CL ASS IS V LT IMA. 
THE LAST T%]TE. 
CHAP. I. 
Agalloebum Jive Lignum, Aloe's? 
NT RING now into my laft quarter, To to confummate this revolution, I mull 
ufe another manner of Method,then formerly I have done in the precedent T ribes; 
for intending to (hew you as well thofe Out-landilh Plants, that are called fpiccs 
and drogues in our Apothecaries fhoppes, as other fruites and ftrange trees,grow¬ 
ing in thcEaft or Weft Indies,I would firft perfefl the more ufuall Phyfical part of 
them in an Alphabcticall order and with them inferc a few other, the more princi- 
pall things, although not plants, or taken from them that are for the mod partin 
our (hops ufed in medicines,fhewing the place and names of them all in a continu¬ 
ed ftile,and not in fractions, as in the foregoing parts. 
Lignum Aloes y or the wood ot the Aloe tree. 
A)ab>,o%ivri ~v\oc/.Acm Agallochttmand Xjloaloe in Greeke, is called alfo A*allo- 
bVltm r ive Lignum Aloes in Latine, and fo in Snglijh, or the wood of the Aloe tree, is a drogue rare to be had, and 
of much worth : but fas it is with many oth.r things that come out ot the Eaft Indies unto usj of fmall know¬ 
ledge what it is and where and how it groweth. For bat that garcias ab Orta faith, that the tree is like unto an 
Ollive tree, and fo.netimes greater, and that he had the . ^oebumfive Lignum slots. 
branch "of the tree brought him to fa, but neither flow- i.£^/».orche,vo 0 d of, he Atawn. 
er nor fruite, the places being very dangerous by the haunt 
of Tigers therein, we flaould not know what forme it 
bore; none ofthe Ancients either gmkfs or Arab,am, ha- 
vine fet downe any thing thereof, although they have all 
mentioned it, and the choyce ofthe bell,with the Vermes; 
onely Strapio in the ,97. Chapter of his Bookc of Simples, 
faith it besreth fmall berries like unto Pepper,but red: yet 
Garcia, maketh feme doubt thereof, as he doth of {undry 
other his relations in that Chapter. For although Scrap,0 
inthacplacereckoneth up divers forts, and Ruclhm fpea- 
ketli of fourc; yet Garcias faith, he knew but one true fort 
of Lignum Aloci^ which grew in India, and that the other 
forts that were fo called, vs ere but fweete woods aliimula- 
tingit, but were not the true and right wood, which the 
Arabians call tsfgalugm and Hand, and they of Surrat and 
'Pecan.l'd, as it is likely from the Arabians Haud, which 
word with them properly figniheth but Lignum wood, 
and prafiantijfimam; but they of Malacca and 
Sumatra where the true groweth.call it Garre, and the befl 
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