T r I b * 17. The Theater of Tlants. 
China ojf'icmarvm . The true China roote. 
Chap.q^. 157^ 
Tfeudochina . Baftard China* 
fumptions,to rc&ifie the evill difpoficion of the liver, the inveterate paines in the head and ftomacke, and ftrengj 
theneth it, and to dry up the defluxions of rheumes,to helpe the jaundifeand theburftings in children or others 
by drying up the humour, which is the caufe thereof: ithelpeth alfo the palfie, and all the other difeafesof the* 
joyntsand bladder, the gout and Sciatica, and the nodes alfo, and ulcers of the yard, and is good in all cold and 
melancholicke griefes, fome rake it to be a great incendiary to lufl: the manner of taking it is divers, for lbme 
boyle it being fliced thinne,and fteeped for a good while in water oncly, and fome adde wine thereto, and fomc 
boyle it in the broth with a'thicken, tyed up in a linnen cloath, and to take from a quarter to hilfe an ounce or 
more at a time,as the quantity of drinke or broth you will provide, or as the party can beare. Wehavehada 
kinde of roote brought us from the Weft Indies in forme lomewhat like unto this true, but harder, redder, and ffeudothkh 
more knotty,which fome called baftard China, and was not a fed by any that I know, CMonardue faith that the 
true was planted in the Weft Indies,and brought from thence very frcfli into Spain. 
Chap, XXIII. 
CinamoMum } Ca/te/la c-r Cajjia. Cinamon and Caflia. 
Know that divers learned men are of opinion that Cinamon, Cancll, and Caftia are three diftinfi 
things, differing each from other, andthat we have no true Cinamon brought ro us (whichcon- 
troverfie is too long to infert in this place) but that which weufually have, is as they call it Canell 
orCafTia, and not Cinamon, yet Garcias fheweth that the Chinese and Arabian Merchants, and 
! others were the caufe of this plurality of names given co one thing, and of the fables that are ex¬ 
tant in Herodotus and others of it,and other things; and that the diverfity of goodnefle, either thick- 
nelfe or bIackneflc,or other outward forme,or quicke and fharpe tafte,or dull and lefle fap;d,or the place of grow- 
ing made the fevcrall forts that pafle under fcverall names, both now and heretofore with the ancient writers« 
for if one would be curious now to fearch among the great ftore of Cinamon, that commeth from the Eftl Indies 
yearely unto us, as Clufim and others have done, he might findc as much diverfitie both in goodnclTe and colour 
as he or any other did at one time or another: for being the barke of a tree, the goodnefle folio weth ufually, ei¬ 
ther the place of growth, one being better then another, or the oldnefle of the trees, the younger being the thin¬ 
ner and ftill having the quicker tafte and the frefher colour,' all the Arabians as Garci/u faith doe generally call it, 
be it of what fort foever, Q uerfaa, or Querfe (or Kerpha } which in Avicen is a worfe fore, as Scaliger noteth, 
in Zeilan Cuards, by the Perfians Darjiui, that is, the wood of Sina, which the Portugal/; fir(i corruptly called 
China, and from thence is the name China ufed by all others: but whereas Garcias faith that the name of Cina- 
momum was given by thofe of Ormus that bought it of the Chinefcs.* 5 though it were China Amomkm. ScAigcr in 
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