8a Ch.af.q8, c Iheatrum c Bctanicum. Tribe 17 
tbio/iu hath well noted, which is no other then the greater Celandine, whofe roote is yellow, and therefore the 
Apothecaries in former times tooke it for Curcuma, and put it into the compofition called ‘Diacurcuma. 
Cantu and Chriflophorui a Cofla call kCracus Indicm, and fay that the Indians call it Alad, and CManjatt, the A- 
r.titans Hr bet and Curcum, the 7 »r<?r and Pcrfians, Sarctb and Darfard thatis liqnumlmeum i it beareth lar* 
ger and thinner leaves then Millet, of a paler greene co¬ 
lour, a (lalke full of leaves, comparing one another to 
the toppt: therooteis flenderand yellow,necre unto 
the forme of Ginger, nothing fo bitter, being frcfhty 
reafon of the moifturc in it, as when it is dry. It is of 
gi cat ule with many for the yellow jaundile, either the 
pottther or the deception being taken, for it doth open 
the obltruftions of the gall and other parts, it is ofvery 
good ule in old and inveterate griefesand fickentffes, 
and an evill difpofition of the body called Cachexia, and 
is very profitable againfl. the dropfie : it is much ufed 
to colour divers fmall wotkes of wood inftead of Saf- 
fron.the Indians ule it much both to feafon and colour 
their meates and brothes, becaufe it is to be had better 
cheape than Saffron,and as Garcias laith is put into thofe 
medicines ate made lor the eyes, and for the itch, if 
fotne/uyecof Otrengcs, and theoyle of the Cocar or 
Indian nut be mixed with it. 
Cnriuma, Turmcrickc* 
Chap. XXVIII. 
Folium Indumfive AFalabatbrum, Folium Indum or Indian Ica.fe. 
Hat Diofcorides and the other Auncienc writers had divers falfe relations of drugges and other thing* 
t T ipti 1 brou S ht unt0 them; which they have let do Whe in their writings,may be well difeerned by this called 
■ MaUbatbrum ,which they (aid as they were informed, did grow in ponds and watery places fwitn- 
ming thereon as the Lens Jir^Duckes meats doth: for it is well knownc now and fofetdowne 
1 by Garcias ab Orta, and other the later writers, that they are the leaves of a great tree growing on 
land farre from waters in Cambaia, as well as in divers other places of the Ead Indies, and called Tamalapatra 
by them, which by corruption was fird changed into the Grcekcs 70 .uAh*£*&& and then into Malabatbrnm but 
by the Arabians Cadept Jttdi , that is, Folium Indum , and 
arefaire broad leaves with three ribbes onelyinthem, a Fo'itmlndumfive Molotathrum. 
little pointed at the ends, u hich have beene brought un- Folium indum or Indian leafe, 
to us,although very fparingly, and among them feme yet 
a' iding on their branches, two ufually at a joynt tailing 
fomewhat hot like unto Bay leaves,the barke of the bran¬ 
ches alfo tailing like unto them;among thefe leaves like- 
w i e have beene found fometimes a fmall fruite like unto 
an Ackorne in the cup, which it is mod probable is the 
fruite of the tree,and gathered with the leaves: but hath 
beene formerly fuppofed by fome to be the fruite of the 
Cinamonttee, and by others obtruded for Ccirpobalfa- 
» : Some have taken thefe to be the leaves of the 
Clove tree, but they are therein much deceived, for they 
have not thofe three eminent ribs in them thatthefc have, 
which is a note to didinguifh them from all other leaves 
a!moll, but lomc more probably have taken the leaves 
of the tiee called Beire or Tembulx. o be folium Indum, bc- 
cdufe they have alfo fomc ribs in them, as Marcus oddo 
doth in his examination of Tberiaca Andromachi, bat is 
alio deceived, for the Folium Indum is not familiarly ea¬ 
ten as the Tembul or 'Bctre leaves are : but wbercas the 
fubflitute for thefe by our later Phyfitians appointment 
is the Maces which is the skinny covering of the inner 
fhedoftheNutmegge, I find that Aviccnlib, ?. r. 
appointeth Thalifafar to be taken, which he deferibeth 
in the fame Booke and 687. Chapter, and bv the mod 
judicious is the Mactr of the ancient Greeks, which they 
knew better then c JAUdi, which was utterly unknownc 
to them,but as if they were one and the fame thing, it 
hath beene generally lo appointed, and is yet fo taken to 
this day by mod, but that Alacer is not MacIs : Pliny in 
his time fheweth plainely lib. 12. c. 8. faying Macer is 
rhereddifh barke of the roote of agreat tree, called by 
the faid name) comming from India, but there would 
