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this Indian kindc to have alfofome other whether the like or no is not to be determined but by fight,The proper¬ 
ties oi this Indian Spikenard are theft: It is of an heating and drying quality,provoking urine,and (laying laskes, 
and both the reds and whites in Women: it takethaway the loathing to meate.and the gnawing ol theftomackc 
uiually called the heart-burning, it conduccth helpe to fweliings, to the ftone in thekidneyes, and to the Kings 
Evill: the decc&ion helpeth the inflammations ol the mother if they fit therein : it htlpcth to bring hairc on 
the baire eyelids : it is notonely an ingredient into the two famous Antidot es 3 Theriaca A*idrmachi i and Mi. 
thridatfptm, but into fundry other competitions appointed by the Ancients, but becaufel would not make a 
double repetition or the fame things, having declared the properties hereof at large in the 42.Chapter ofthefirll 
Claffis of this worke, I mull referre you thereunto. 
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Chap. XLII. 
'Film* fivc Nux Indicuvul^n iiferens Coccus , The ordinary Indian Cokar Nut. 
xHere cannot be found in the world, a tree that hath fo many necetfary commodities for mens ufes to 
1 be had from it,as this Cokar Nutthe tree groweth to be huge great and vatic, whofc body or hem 
1 is covered with a fmoothbarke, bare or naked without any branch to a great height (for which 
caufe the Indians doe either bore holes therein at cei taine diftances,and knocke flrong pegs intothem 
which fticke out fo much as may fctve for footing to get up into the tree, to gather the juyee or li- 
quoutand the fruitc, or fallen ropes with naylcsvound about the tree a: fpaces which (erve as fteppes to goe up 
into it,) and toward the top fpread fundry great armes which bowe theml'elves almoft round, with large leaves 
on them like the Date tree but greater, whole middle ribbe is very great,abiding alwayes grcene,and with fruite 
alfo; continually one fucceeding another:from betweene the lower boughes come forth lmallcr (lalkes hanging 
downe, bearing fundry flowers on them like unto thoie of the Chefnnc tree : after which fucceed large great 
three fquare fruite or nuts,ten or twelve,or lometimcs twenty thereon together,as big as ones head, or as almall 
Pompion almoft round, but a little fmaller at theend, covered with a hard tough darkeafh-coloured batke, and 
within it an hard round wooddy brownifh (hell, butblacke being polifhed, having at the head or toppe thereof 
three holes, fomewhat refembling the nofe and eyes of a Monckey, betweene which outer barke and this (hell, 
grow a number of grofle threds or haires,or fuch like fluffe, whereof is made cordage, flronger and more durable 
in the (alt Sea, then any made ofhempe; within the wooddy (hell,there is a white kernell.cleaving clofe to the 
inliae thereof, ofthe thickenelTe of ones finger or thumbc,or thinner.as fweeteandpleafantasan Almond while 
it is frelh, having in the middle thereof a pint,two or three, of cleare dainty fweet water, as pleafant as milke. 
Polled vc l Mux ladcca COlosfcrens, 
The Indian Cokar Nut tree. 
Nucula lndica. vactmofa. 
A finall Indian Nut many growing together. 
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