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she was certainly very frank and civil to him. Her son, whom she 
kept in tutelage, asked Pietro to pot-luck, which (as the dynasty was 
Hindu) he had to take alone, and gives the menu :—“ Rice served on 
a plantain-leaf, ‘very good butter melted’ (ghi), ‘and a quantity | 
of a certain red herb called by the Portuguese Bredo (which yet is 
the general appellation of all-sorts of herbs).” 
The Editor. supposes this to have been the tomato, but it was more 
probably a red amaranth, Several plants of this order are “ lal baji” 
in Hindustani and “bredo ” to the Goanese at this day. There were 
also pickled bamboo shoots and “several fruits ” undescribed. There 
was not time to get up a good curry, but the traveller takes this oppor- 
tunity to describe it very well. On the 19th he sailed from Mangalor 
for Calicut and Cannanore and thence returned to Goa, without 
adventure in our line, except that they had to anchor amongst 
St. Mary’s Isles, “ whence some men that went ashore brought me 
some jasmen of a very goodly scarlet colour, but for smell it had 
little or none at all.”” The Editor supposes this to have been Bigno- 
nia venusta ; and quotes the remark “ attributed to a late Financial 
Member of Council,” that “ India is a place where everything 
smells except the flowers!!” As for the flower, it was Izvora 
bandhuka,* and as for the joke, its better known attribution is Ali 
Baba’s, viz. to “some jack-ass.”’ 
After his return to Goa our traveller noted a Cannella 
tree as any” and eXotic (pellegrino), which the Hditor identifies with 
Canella Alba of the West Indies. It had a yellow flower “ used by the 
country people instead of saffron” and the leaves had “a taste of 
cinnamon and (were) pleasant to masticate.” He preserved some ; 
“as also of the Arbor Tristo, with its odoriferous flowers ; which 
blow every day and night and fall off at the approach of day,”— 
our well-known Parijataka (Nyctanthes arbor-tristis), “ Moreover, 
IT saw and observed in the Lake,” says he, “ two sorts of flowers, one 
“as big a 
® Now usually entered as 2. coccinea. The synonym dandhuka is used here as 
more intelligible to many native members, The gardeners’ trivial name is 
“ Bakawli,” but is shared with other plants, A bush with handsome bunches of 
bright red flowers, not a true jasmine, though the flowers are sufficiently like 
jasmine blossoms in shape to justify Pietro, Brandis, and Watt following him, call 
this bush “ Flame of the Wood ;” but it is not a plant of the woods, rather of waste 
places and hedges, Our “ Flame of the Forest” is Butea frondosa. 
