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Tbeatrum 'Sotankum. 
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Chap. I.V. „ 
Zedoaria & ZcrHmbith. Setwall. 
^He Setwall that we haveufually in our fhops, doth not alwayes hold one uniforme face and fafhion, 
i but divers, (or fome is thicke and (hort. others more long and round, fbme great,others fmall.lome 
whole, others broken, as it isufuall in all things almoft, either forraigne or domefticke, and yet 
thie feverall varieties offormes, being of lo little difference cannot make them leverall things, e- 
fpecially feeing their taile and quality is all one.or but fo little differing that any judicious may foone 
determine the conttovet fie. Garcias ab Orta di[lingui(hethberweeneZ><i><tnii and Zertmbet, making themto 
he two divers things and therefore fpeakethof them in two feverall Chapters,wherein as ir feemethhemaketh 
Zedoaria to be the Geiduar of Avicen, which yet he faith Avicen knew nor, becauleit growethin th e Chine/es 
Country, and is very rare to be feene or had, but from fuch vagabond lndians,ca!jcd logics, a travaile begging 
through all thofe Countries, which Geiduar or Gedwar, as Garcias faith is oi the bignclle of an Ackorne, and 
neere unto the fame forme, weighing about halfe an 
Zcdoria !o»ge & rotundagenanacffigits iwncjue isr Geidwoi 
Ardbum. Thcrruefigure ofthc long and round Zeboorta, 
and cf cl.e drabknl Geid.vari 
ounce, and ofaclecre colour, butClufim giveth us 
thcdelcri, tion and figure of it a little larger, which 
as he faith he had from Tom of Verona , andcompa- 
reththem tothe (mailer rootes of Affhodill, or the 
raotesof/^rfevrofansih-colour on thecutfide.and 
yellowifh within, and of an hot fharpetafie. Zedo- 
aria is called Zurnmbei by Serapio, and faith they are 
rootes like unto the round Ariftolochia, but ot the 
colour and tafie of Ginger, and brought from China : 
Avicen faith that Ztdaria is Hkc unto AriJiolochia,bM 
leffer, and afterwards fai th,that it is likely robe Cjei- 
ditar or Algeiduar, and giveth unto it the lame quali¬ 
ties that Serapio doth to his Zedoaria or Zcrurnbett 
Rloafis maketh Z‘doria an d Ztrsm.bet all one,and Me- 
(lies alfofeemeth to agree unto them, but differeth 
onely in a degree of heate; fo that you may plainely 
fee that all thefe forts are made by thefe Auihours to 
be of little or no difference, and fo they feeme unto 
inc, as they have alio to others before me, who have 
as I have done, feene all thefe diverfities of forme 
come over together unto us: Lugdunenfis fetteth 
downc verytruely the figure of Zedoaria and Zerttm- 
b:t, as they grow together, the longer pcecesjoy- 
ning to the round Like the Ajphodill tootes, toone 
roundhead. Garcias ab Ort* faith, that Zertsmbct 
(or Zerumba, although he maketh them differing as I 
iaid.in one Chapter, yet all one inthe next) grow¬ 
th plentifully wild in CMalavar Calecut, and Cana- 
nor, and is alio planted by divers in fundry places.cal- 
ling it wild Ginger, thole of Surrat, ‘Decan, andCa- 
tfarj cal! it Chachoran, and thofe of Malavgr Sua, 
and hath leaves like unto Ginger but greater, longer, 
and broader. There have beene fome that have 
thonoht Zedoaria to be fome of the kindes of Co flat . .. ,, ,. 
that Diofcorides deferibeth, becaufe it agteeth in many things therewith, Zedoaria being not fpecihed by turn,or 
iheauncientGretket. and indeed both forme and quality comming fo neere may caufe it well to be accepted as 
the lubflitute thereof. AH thefe forts as they are made divers by the writers of them arc (aid bv them to be effectu¬ 
al! auainftpoyfons of all forts, and venomes of virulent creatures, and we have found them of much ule and pro¬ 
fit inthe pefiilence and other contagious difeafes, as alfo to warmc a cold ftomacke, and to cxpell wtnac mcr- 
vailoufiv to repreffe vomitings, to dry up and confumc catarrhes and defluxions of rheume, to diflolve the lm- 
pofiumes'of the matrix, and to Ifay the loofcneffe ot the belly, and is alfo very powerfull to (lay or dtfper e the 
unfavoury belchings of thofe fpirits that Garlicke,Onions,&c. or wine have caufed. 
Chap. LVI. 
Zingiber, Ginger. 
5 Inner as Garcias faith growethin all the Countries oftheEafl Indies, either planted by the roote or 
? fownc of feed, (the foote faith an Englijh rare traveller, fpreadeth in the ground, and hath leaveslike 
i wild Garlike, which they cut every fortnight,to put into their brothes and meates:) It groweth faith 
V with leaves like the water Flagge.or Come Flagge, and not like the Reed thus faith he, and fo faith 
XMcnardn, alfo, but Acofta faith that it hath leaves very like to the greater forts of M iHec lobs teares, a"d wto 
a thicke ftalke like Afphodil! leaves thereop, clofe to the (talks, fo that it feemeth to be a (mail Reed, irid L ° b g 
