C 1 beatrum ‘ Betanicum, 
s668 Chap. 146* 
a 
Tribe 17, 
Ce ij' 
jtrboru fo- 
l'a (ex bra- 
chiorum. 
Met l five 
Maguey 
AUxcano- 
>um. 
Papjrifeia 
arbor ctufj 
puma. 
SttuaJa. 
broad and round, asbigge as chc palme of ones bind, as thicke as two Ivy leaves, and greene.and fometimes red- 
dilb, whereon the Sfar.urtls uled to wi ite with an iron pen or pointed on both Tides of the leaves, but they mull 
be frclh gathered sndprelcntly wtuten upon, which Letters then willappeare white, in theg'esr.e or reddifh 
leaves that they maybeeahly read, notwithllanding the middle ribbe, and the other veincs therein, in that they 
will not hinder ones hind very much. The other tree they call Copej, growing greaterand taller, whole leaves 
are round like unto the other, but twice as large and thicke as they, and therefore better to write on, the middle 
ribbe and veines being alio Imaller, and thereby . 
hindering the pointed fiom the graving th.reon C W Thicke writing leaves GutJma. 
r • U I ft- , r 1 „„ - w Printed Card:. dun writing leaves, 
lo much the leffe •• thele leaves alio the Spam- 
«-<Amadeufeof for playing cards, engraving 
the formes of Kings,Queenes,&c. thereon, and 
would not cafily be broken. NicboUw Cofiimu 
in his j'ournall letteth downe that ncerc the City 
Cael where pearies arc found, there growetha 
tree,whole leaves a - c fo large that two or three 
men maybe kept dry in their j'ourneyes, having 
one of them fpread to cover them, for they ate 
of fixe braces or fathomes in length, and as many 
in breadth, which leaves alfo lerve them very 
fitly to write upon, each of them being fo thinne 
and plyable withall,tliac being toulded up hand- 
fomely together, one may carry one of them in 
theirhand. CDuret a!lp among his admirable 
plants remembreth the Melt or Ainugej oi the 
CMtxicanes, or rather Met! and M.t?ud y \k hich 
is the Aloe Americana, let forth in the lycond 
Clallisof this Wotke, of yvhofe leaves they 
made u. r e to write or engtave whit Records 
they would keepe, ar what elfethey thought 
good. Clufttu alfo makeib mention in his firft 
Booke of Exotickes, and fourth Chaptcr.oftwo 
lotts of barkes of trees fit to write on : the one white and like unto the thinned parchment which was »otte n i 
lava, by thofethat returned home with Sir Francis Drake , in his long voyage over the world, which by trvaH 
was found fit to write on. And as he faith-it might be was taken from that tree that Antcmw Fig.fett* maket! 
mention of in his jouhujll, that in the ItUndTidare, the women cover their privy parts, with a certainccloath 
made ofthc barke of a tt ee in this manner •. after it hath beene ttceped lo long in water that it is growne fof c t |, e „ 
bcate it with woodden mallets unto what length and breadth they pleafe, making it fo thinne as filke, havinnthe 
crofle veincs running through it: And it may as likely be luch as the Chi.e/es make their paper, Tome Booltes 
of herbes being brought inro the Low Countries as Gltsfius faith, having both the figures of the herbesin them 
and thedefcriptions,and venues alfo perad venture, for they had Chtnefes Characters on the Tides of the figures’ 
The other barke ofthc tiee was not white, but fomewhat leddifh, but of fo fmooth and fine a polffhed fin-face" 
V no paper could he lmoother and plainer, and was not thicke or groffe but without any difficulty might | c D3r ’ 
ted into fix leaves, each of them very well enduring to be written on with our ordinary incke,and yet not finite 
anv whit through it, which barke as he laith might have beene leparated into more leaves ifonc would havebeen 
curious about them, 
Fdm*pintit five Conifer*. The Pine or Conebearin* Palme tree. 
H is Orange ktnde of tree being brought by cmime Engliji Merchants, or Martinets, from the parts 
of Gtirt* where they traded, wasofa wonderfull compofiire, for the toppebough with the fruite 
thereon, was as it were mixed,of the nature of the Date,and Pine tree together, the wood being !i"hr 
and fpongv, and wholly madeofthredsorhaires, the outfide or barke being liketcales: ithada’bout 
forty or fiftv round yet fomewbat flat branches, a footc long in the lame manner fcaly, or as itwere 
fet with hollow joynted cuppes or boxes, and from the/oynts broke forth (mail cones like to thofe of the Cedar 
tree, fet with thicke lcales of a pollifhed Ihining btownifh colour, the outer Thell being of the thickeneffc ofthe 
Indian Nut fliell, containing within it a certaine kernel! like unto a long Ackorne or Chefnut, of two inches 
iongorielTe, very hard and not eafie to be made into meale, yetferving the Natives inflead of bread. 
FruChtt feptiamofut Palm* alter* fimilis. Another kinde of Italy fruite like the other Palme. 
Another Icily fruiteiike hereunto was Tent unto ClafiM, but came a little after his death, which flic weth the 
i! slke cf the fruit divided into long fibers, the fruite alfo divided, whole inner fubflance betweene the outer fhell 
and the inner kernell was blacke, the fmaller end of which kernel! lay next the bottome of the fruite, differing 
fi ofn thole in the Cokar Nuts. a 
ebameripbe,peregrin* tlujij. The flrange dwarfe Palme of C/tifim. 
.This branch Clufim referreth to the kindes of Palmetos as thinking it to partake with them : it role up laith. 
he 
