C« a f ^ i i 4 .' 'Tbeatrnm Botankum. Tr i b * ijf 
Monardm maketh mention of another kinde of purging Pine kernelts, growing in Hijpamcla, cf-c. within 
Lux let Pr-fuch like cones bnt greater and longer, thinner (held and blacker then the ufuall fort, whofe kernells being white 
nsiu’j. and fweete, tempt divers to cate of them without fufpition ofevacuation, yetfiveor fix according to the ability 
of the patient,being given in wine doc purge ftrongly both upwards and downewards.avoyding grofie humours 
efpecially; but being a little terrefied at the fire they worke not fo violently or with (uch torments and gripings: 
Chap. CXIIII. 
Pemabfon, The Apple bearing poy fonous Almond tree. 
Hevct flieweth in his defeription of America ,that in i'ome parts thereof there groweth a tree,the barke 
whereof is of a flrange and mervailous fent,having leaves like unto Puifiane, very thick and aiwayes 
grecne : it beareth frmte as great as large fifed Apples, and as round as an hand-ball which are not 
to be eaten for they ate poy ton •- but they containc within them fix other fruits, v ry like unto Al¬ 
monds but flatter and broader, each lying in a fevcrall cell, which are wonacrlull profitable to the 
people,to heale their woundsby darts or otherwife in their warres, for out of thefc fruits they prelfe a kind of red 
oyle with which they are quickly cured. 
Chap. CXV. 
CacaofiveCactvate, The Pcarcbearing wholfomc Almond tree. 
Envinhisdefcriptionof x/tmerica ,remethbreth a tree growing in Nicarraone a Province of the 
{ Weftlndics fomewhat like untothelalfdefcribed, but beccufcitis another lort you (hall haveibe 
C relation thereof as he fetteth it dowr.e. It is the fruitcof a meane fifed tree growing onely inwarmc 
and wec.yct lhadowed placcs.and therefore mult be defended from the fight of the'sunne by having 
a tall tree planted to the Sunne ward of it,which mull be fitted and plafhed that it may be as an Arbor 
untoit,orelfeit will wither and perifh : the fruite doth fomewhat nearely 
informerefembleaPeare,orPeareta(hioncd Gourd, with a thicke fhell or Cacao five Cacavate. 
rinde, and within lyeth an Almond likqlruite,l,alfe asbig agiineas a Wal- carc earm S vvholfome Almond tree; 
nut, inclofed in a hard round (hell, the kerncll being blackifia without,and 
brownifhafricolo'uredvcines within, butbitterifti and unpleafant, yet very 
fweete and pleafant to the Indians. After ihey have gathered the ftuire 
they breake the outer rinde and lay the in ner fruite upon Mats to dry in the 
Sunne,untill themoiflure within ihem be conlumed, and then they keepe 
them both for their mearc and mcrchaadife,for fhippes loaden with them 
are carried from GnatimaU io new SpAne, and other places thereabouts, 
and trucke with them for other commodities in Oead of mony, and give of 
them to the poore in (lead of an aimes. A drinkelikewife the Indians make 
thereof called Chocolate, w'ell pleaiing and accepted with the greateft a- 
mong them,who account nothing of more efteeme; but to the Chriftians, 
at the firft itfeemeth a wafli titter for hogs, yet by life even accepted by 
them alfoin the wane of better. 
Chap. CXVI. 
Arcc.t Jive FaufclJ sh Avellana Indiana verficolor. The difcoloured fmali Indian Nut. 
His tree groweth great andverytall, butthe wood theieof is fpongy and not eafie to breake, 
without any branches unto a great height, and towards the toppe lpreading many faire bran- 
c ^ es ’ an< ^ ' C3ves t ^ etc °n greater and longer then the Coker Nut tree, the flonersaic white 
without fent, and grow many together on a longfiaike hanging downewards from the lower 
branches, the fruit following on every one,bcing longer bur fmaller then the Nutmeg with ail 
t he outer rindes and (hells, and hath the outer rinde covered with a yellow Cotton like filke.the 
inner kernell being very like unto a Nutmeg,fomewhat round,and fmali at one end and flat at the other, with the 
like difcoloured veines therein, but withoutany heatein taAc or lent, and is therefore held to be cooling and 
drying : it groweth in fundry places ofthe Indies more or Icfic plentiful! in one or another p'ace, and chiefly 
ncaretheScacoafls: Withthe twigs hereof that are of two fingers ihicknefTe the Natives ufe to hunt theCro- 
codils as well in the water as on land, for if theyc. nthrutl thefe fiickes into their mouthes they are lure they 
cannot breake them, becaufe they are folithye and . oongy, and thereby they doe retaine and take them, it is 
called Fanfelby the ^Arabians, but fome falfly Filfel, by the chiefefl Indians Areca, by thole of Cjan.arate.MA De¬ 
can Safari,itt Malabar Pac, in Malaca Pinan.in Couchin Chat an : it is profitably ufed in all hot dileafes, to helpe 
thetoothach, andtofafien loofe teeth in the header the loolegummes.-the Indians ufe this fruite abundantly 
cyther unripe to flupefie their fenfes like to drunkenneffe,orripe, being mixed with the leaves of Betell or 
Betrc 
