Ball — On the Colloquies of Garcia Be Orta. 389' 
COLLOQUY 11. 
Do Aloes. 
[Aloes — The inspissated juice of Aloe socotrina, Lam., A. vulgaris^ 
Lam., A. litoralis, Konig., &c.] 
Garcia gives the following names as synonyms for aloes : — cehar 
{sihra or accilar), Arab; area {erio)^ Gujarat; catecomer, Canarese ; 
acihar, Spanish ; azevre, Portuguese ; herva hahosa, Portuguese for the 
plant. 
It grows in Cambay, Eengal, &c., but that of Socotra is the 
most esteemed ; the prepared juice from the latter was easily distin- 
guished by its uniform composition, and cost four times as much as the 
others. 
The statement of Pliny^ and Dioscorides,^ that the best kind is from 
India, Garcia explains by saying that it was first taken to India from 
Socotra. 
In this colloquy and frequently throughout, Garcia refers to 
the Nizamoxa and Nizamaluco as titles of the Deccan sovereigns ; 
they stand respectively for Nizam Shah and Nizam al mulJc. A full 
explanation of the use of these titles will be found in Col. Yule's 
Glossary^ p. 830. 
Garcia quotes the remarks upon this drug by Mesne, Matheus 
Silvatico, Serapion, Avicena, Easis, Mathiolo Senense, Antonio Musa, 
&c., and mentions that the Persian, Arab, and Turkish physicians were 
well acquainted with the writings of Hippocrates, Dioscorides, Galen, 
Aristotle, Plato, and Pliny. 
As to the virtues of the drug and its uses it would be impossible in 
this as in many cases which follow to present them in an abstract like 
the present. 
Parenthetically Garcia explains that the Romes or Rmnes differ from 
the Turcos by the fact that the former are the inhabitants of Constan- 
tinople and her empire, and that the latter are dwellers in ITatolia. 
He adds that, according to Platina, when Constantine left Eome to 
the Pope, the privilege of calling it Rome was given to him, and the 
people were called Romeos, and continue to be so to this day. 
[References.^ — Clusius (Acosta), p. 11 ; Linschoten^ ii., p. 126; 
Bontius and Piso, lib. iv., p. 41 ; Ainslie, i., p. 8 ; Fhichiger and 
Hanhury^ p. 616 ; Khory^ p. 538.] 
^ Plin. lib. xxvii., cap. 4. 
2 For full titles see above, p. 383. 
2 Diosc. lib. iii., cap. 4. 
