¶ The Names.
This tree was vnknowne to the old writers, or so little accounted of, as that they haue made no mention of it at all: the Arabians were the first that esteemed of it, by reason they knew the vse of the pulpe which is found in the Pipes: and after them the later Grecians, as Actuarius & o∣ther of his time, by whom it was named 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 that is to say in Latine, Casia nigra. The fruit thereof, saith Actuarius in his fist booke, is like a long pipe, hauing within it a thicke humour or moisture, which is not congealed all alike tho∣row the pipe, but is separated and diuided with many partitions, being thin wooddy skins. The Apothecaries call it Casia 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and with a dou∣ble ss Cassia 〈◊〉〈◊〉: it is called in English after the Apothecaries word, Cassia fistula, and may also be Englished, Pudding Pipe, because the cod or Pipe is like a pudding: but the old Cas∣sia fistula, or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in Greeke, is that sweet and odoriferous barke that is rolled together, after the manner of a long and roundpipe, now named of the Apothecaries Cassia lignea, which is a kinde of Cinamon.