The Form.
The Jujube-tree groweth sometimes to be very high, but more often to a rea∣sonable height, having his Stem or Body bowed or crooked, and spreading rather in breadth, the Wood whereof is whitish and hard, covered with a rugged Bark, from whence spread great Branches, and from the lesser and slender, whitish twigs about a foot long, full of Leaves, set on both sides, not usually directly one against another, but one a little above another, with an odd one at the end; each whereof is small, somewhat broad, and pointed at the end, dented, or finely nick∣ed about the edges, with long Veins in them, smooth, and somewhat hard in handling, each standing on a short foot-stalk, and very like unto the Leaves of Pa∣liurus, or Christs Thorn: at the foot of every Leaf, towards the tops of the Twigs, come forth small yellowish Flowers, of five Leaves a peece, where after∣wards stand the fruit, which is somewhat like unto a small Plum or Olive, but a little long, green at the first, and then ••t is somewhat harsh, and yellowish after; but at last red, and of a reasonable sweetnesse; yet sharp withall, and somewhat clammy, when they are ripe▪ flat as it were, at the lower end next the stalk, whose skin is thicker and harder then a Plum, and the stone within it, is small, firm, and solid, long, round, and solid, like unto an Olive, or Cornelian Cherry∣stone, both for form and hardnesse. All the Branches, both greater and sm••ller, are armed with Thorns, two alwayes at a joynt, whereof the one is long, s••••ong, sharp pointed and straight and the other crooked, both of them of a blacki•••• red colour, like unto the elder Branches: The Roots are long, and firm in the Ground.