1678 
Theatre Botanico tJppendix. 
3, eJMyoboUni fiebHli utfntur Icon vera, 
A true figure ofthc purple Myrobalant 
or purging Indian Plumme, 
Feflingitu in his fttrvay of Alpinm his Egiptian 
plants laith, that lie often law in the Orchard of 
a ccrtaine chiefe Turke, a tree growing, which 
the keeper therof called Dileg el duinl, growing 
to be as bigge as a Plume tree, with a fmooth pale 
coloured barke, the wood being whitiiliand 
fomewjiat fweet, the branches fptead fairely and 
thicke, bending eafily and hardly breaking, ar¬ 
med with fiiarpe long thornes •• the leaves are 
fet by couples together on a (hort footeftalkc, 
being fotnewhat long with the roundnefie, and 
a little round pointed ( nothing like untoPeadi 
leaves,as is formerly fet downe) the lower ones 
bting larger then thofe upward on the fame 
branch: and without any dent on the edge.The 
finite is of a reafonable great' clfc; bigge in the 
middle, and final! itboth ends, and ot a da>ke 
or blackifh red colour, and lomewlnt laptdc. 
Thcytifeto preferve them, audio impart them 
to thufe of the greateh ralike, and have a purging 
qtnlicyimhem. 
S RubinfjtvifiriiargenlenCrelica. 
Silver-like wilde Madder of C tndj. 
Thu, Imalt Candy white Madder, from a lir.all 
long fl'-tidcr roote (liooieth fmtli divert (hikes, 
nct'halie a footc long, w ith fundry (mall, long, 
ihft and (ilver colpurtd leaves let by (paces,fome 
ti mes but cwo.dther whiles loure at a 1 pace, and 
with them upwards to the toppe, ftnall yellow- 
iTn flowers, it is without any other talle th eti a 
little allringent, and is faid to be profitable for 
fluxes in ir.an or wonvin. 
8 . Rubrafilve/Zrd-tifgMteaCrctiea- 
Silver like wild Mdutlcr ot Candj. p * 7 f * 
2 My,cbo\ar.iC\Mvt jerturlcon u r a. 
A t„nch of the true Chcbull Myrobulanc.or purple purgmg 
A Indian Plume as it is thought,to be referred to p.a4«. 
Capvot fiihacta radicc. 
Bcon^ens Ho!tV.oriel t Qr fruall round looted Fumitcrry. p.i88. 
