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7 beatrum Botamcum, 
Tribe 17 
Chap. LXX XV. 
Anana fin Pina, The WEft Indian delicious Pines. 
Pines (To much efleemed for the moft excellent and pleafant fweete finite in all the Weft Indies) is 
: frui'.cof a kinde of Thiftle, growing with many long, hard,tough ftiffe and narrow leaves, thick- 
in the middle, and thinne, ent in and dented about the edges,with reddifh points, Teeming prickc- 
.] , ike a Thiftle,but arc not,from the middle whereof rifeth up a round and Ihorter ftalke, then that of 
the wilde (or: let with the like leaves but Idler, and at che toppe one head,of the bigneffc ofareafonable Muske- 
Mclon.or Pome Citron,ofa ycllowifhgreene before it be ripe,and more yellowifh, being through ripe, (hewing 
as it were fcaly like an Artichoke at the firft view, but more like to a Cone of che Pine tree, which we call a Pine 
Apple for the for me, yectheoutfidehathnohardnefTeatall therein,but may be pared and cut like unto a mellow 
Cocone Peach, being fo fweete in fmdl that they may be perceived where they be afarreoff,of a farre more plea ■ 
fant fweete tafte and fubftance then it, rafting like as if Wine,Rofewater,and Sugar, were mixed rogerher, ha¬ 
ving no feedeat all in it, whereby it may be encreafed: but as foene others (ay, it hath whitifh (eed like a Muske- 
Melon, but Idler and longer; this fruitebeareth a bufh of leaves at the toppe, and fome fmall heads on fmali 
branches underneath it, which being taken from it and planted halfe way deepe in the ground will take roote, 
and beare fruite the next yeare, which is the onely manner of propagating. Jn Brajfitl is (aid that they have fun- 
dry forts hereof, one they call Pajama, which is longer and plealanter then any other, and of a yeilowifli fub¬ 
ftance: another they call Bur jama, boing whiter within, and of a mawmilh tafte, with the lufcioufnelTe .■ a 
third they called I ■jjgna, white alio within, but rafting like fweete Wine with alitde tartneffc. The roote is 
great with many firings thereat, but perftheth with the ftalke after the fruite is ripe. It was firft brought from 
Santa Crttife in Brafli'J where it is naturall, into both Welland Haft Indies, being not naturall to either of them 
but is onely manured there, and now is growne plentiful; they of BraJJi'l call it Nana, others Anana, th e Spa- 
n'nr-.it and Portugal!: Pmas, from the likenefte, andfo doe moft Countryes, following that name, Ovitdut j n 
his Hiftory calieth it Pajama, and Thevet in his fingularities maketh mention of another fruite very like hereunto 
but growing upon a tree like the Mulberry, wuhlongbroadleaveslike Angelica, inan Iflandofthe Eaft India 
called Pifeeumere, which fruite they call Mtlcnktn, and tafteth as if Sugar and a little Nutmegge were mixed to¬ 
gether, whichtheNativeseatetoquenchtheirthirll, Thechiefefttimeoftheir ripenelTeis inthcLent, when 
they are fweeteft. But this I’mats I (aid, furpaffeth ail other fruices of the Weft Indies, for pleafantnefleand 
vvholefomencfle, fo that many estc them abundantly, and thinke they cannot fuffiriently be (atisfied with them, 
Anna feaTina, Anma fflwfiiu. 
T!.c Weft Indian delicious Pines. Wild Indian Pines, 
but 
