15^8 CHAP<5< 
Tbeatram ‘Botanicum. 
T RIB 
wife, have put in theit compolmons inftead of theright,but by the tafte as Ch>f,w alfo noteth it, it might feemt 
to be availcible to many good ufes if they were tryed. 
Chat. 
Award;.-!. Anacardes or Malacca Beanes. ' 
^C; TLacardium is a fruice like unto an heart,growing on trees plentifully in Canaxcr arid Calccut, Cambay* 
,rx 1 andhDecan,as Garctas iaith, (and as fome fay on thole meuntaines in.Sictita that caff forth fire, but I 
fomewhat doubt thereof) greater then our greateff Beane, and called by the Tortugals F ava de Malac- 
qua,o[ the Arabians Balador, and of the Indians Bibo, whole outer skin or huske is of a darke red colour. 
Anaeardh Anacardes or Malays bhtQCj, 
betweene which and the white edible kernell, lyeth a ccr- 
taineliquour orvifeous fubifance, of a fiery red colour 
while it is frefh, and of a fwcetilh,but fomewhat hot tafte, 
which is the true Mel Anacardimm,but inftead thereof,be- 
caufe We cannot have them fofrefh, that we mighttake 
forth this fubftance, lorneufetoboylethe fruite being bro¬ 
ken or bruited in honey.and then call it Mel Anacardimem, 
butoffarreleffecffeft. The whole fruite faith Garcias, is 
familiarly eaten while they are frefh, as alfo being pickle- 
cd like Ollives, in all thofe parts where they grow, but as 
he faith, when they are dry, theyufe them asacaufticke, 
to take away wens, &c. The qualities hereof are fet 
downe by Seraphs and Avicen, who although they make it 
to be of a delicery andpoyfoning propercy, by overhea¬ 
ting and burning ihc blood, being hot and dry in the third, 
if nor in the four ih degree, which Gareas beleeveih not; yet they fay that the fruite helpeth the fence* that are 
weake, and the memory that is decayed, andcomforteth the brainc, and nerves that are fubjefl to the palfie that 
commech throu yh cold : garciai faith that in India they ufe to give the whey wherein the iruite hath been, he* 
ped,to thole that are fhort wmdtd,and to thofe that have the wortnes, 
Chap, VI. 
C«j<m at bar ium fuo c rwteUa piauta. 
Cajaus. The Cajotts or Apple Beane. 
Ecaufe this fruite comming from 'BrajiU 
and called by the people (here Cajout, 
is in divers things like Unto the Anacdr. 
des, I thought it not amiffc to give you 
he knowledge thereof next thereunto, 
with thedeferiptionof it,asC&//«< hath 
recorded in his Scholia, on the Aaacardei in Garcias, 
for.I flmie fonre other Authours'to have made menti¬ 
on ofir,as CLiblophoruiaCrfia, LHgttunenfis,Lin{cho- 
ten- Baptifia Ferr arias who fet forth a fmall plant 
thereof of one ycares growth, yet none have added a- 
ny thing unto him. This tree ("faith he) is great, ha¬ 
ving leaves like the Peare tree, but rather like Bay 
leaves in thofe that are new fprung up, thickc and of a 
pale greene colour: the flower is white like to the O- 
renge flower.but thicker with leaves, but not fo fweet 
as they, the fruite is like unto a Goofeegge, both for 
forme and greatnes,ofa very yellow colour, A: fweet, 
full of a liquour like unto that of a Citron, thac is cal¬ 
led Lima, which is eaten by them with great delight, 
yet fomewhat (hirpe, and Acojla faith the lame, and 
asitencreafeth the nut growethleffe (although The. 
vet ihtftedi. Chapter of his deferiptian of America, 
contraryeth this manifeft trurh ) not having any feed 
within it, but at thcendof this fruite groweth forth 
this nut, which being put into the ground doth fpring 
up like the ftones or kernells or any other fruite.being 
of the fafhionofan Hares kidney, of an afh-colour 
fometimes declining to rednelfc 1 this nut hathadou- 
ble rinde, or fhell betweene which is a certaine fpon- 
gy fubftance,full of amoft fliarpe and burning oyle.the 
kernell within being as fweet as a Piftack nut,covered 
withathinalpi coloured skin, which is robe taken a- 
way,and is laid to be a ftirrer up of Venerious aftions, 
and therefore 
