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Show 8 ""\\ ATHANASI ____ __&' "Mm RIRCHE CHAP --- V of firange or foreigrz lants in China A S the Empire of the C inefes by a continuated t A the properties of t ipatet ings with India, the Seas eing fubje@ to the Torri Zone; [0 allo it. muft o qualities ts endued with rar Bat to recount fom e firf} i the Rofe o {pringeth out of Trees, w za tha ich twice every day cha being al] purple, or red even no and by and by becoming ltogether white, yet with any fweet fcent. Vid. t u e Author, Part 4. Cap. 5 fol. 176 There alfo groweth in the a Plant which they call Chi which is to fay Weather- ung ife; for the Mariners as Father Martinins relat «do by the number and th iffance of the Knots gro ing thereon, predi& ho tempefts fhall be througho man t the whole year, and wh n they fha] happen. Fa ther vid, Author, Part 4 Chap. 6. ful. 1 YL In the Province Quangf Tree, which they call which inftead of Pith hat nlang a foft pul P like unto flour bread, and s applicab ives mak e to the nfes with f ou of which Trees Marcu Panly Lib.3. chapxg There is faid to be a Lak ting in the Province H n 1s called Hociniao, on ev nane, whic ry fide beautifully furr unded with Trees; th that fall from them are c Leave anged into fmall Bird Feneius makeeh mentio of 4 black colour; infuc bers that the Inhabijtants e SPpirits. ' So Martinins i The like in Scotlnd an his Atlas elfewhere, as Solsnd Ge fe Clack Geefe and Barnicl The Atlss of Ching, men s ionsan Herb, in the Pr vince of Huguang, call which liveth a thoufand d Puf ears, and hath the vireu g gray hairs into blac and-¢hang: of which the truth ma well be doubted There isalfo found the R ot called Ginfeng, in th famous throughout all Ch Province of Leaotung, mo na5 from the operatio of whofe wonderful virt valgar Chinefes believe of Health and Longevity - Martinins, in the 35- See Fathe olio of his Alss © There is the Plant call d Cha, which not being bounds of China, hat {elf within th infingarcd it felf int R o I cichens 'the leaf being and infufed in water, the oile drink hot as oftenasthey leafes irisof a Diaretic culty, much foreifies the tomach, exhilarares the pirits, and wonderfull all the Nephritick pallage th the head by (uppreflin 710U Vapours, {o that i of fuligiisa moft excellent drin ftudious and fedentar fons, to quicken them in the an bicter;' yet Cufiom make and tho minifter the like cordi lity yet Tea, if the beft, ery hot Seafons inflameth, ore than ordinary, an Tea in all Seafons hat Ceffee agitateth choler oneand the {ame effed bu Dranght ‘whereof we h But concerning this Pla , fee Martinins in his large. tlas Sinicus a I‘A rope 5 it aboundeth j gions of China, and th divers Rere is great difference, utthe beft and more ch Province K tangnan, in t ice js i th e Territory of the Cit H |