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COLLOQUY YI. 
Da AlWOEE TRISTE. 
[Arbor tristis — Nyctanthes arbor-tristis^ Linn.] 
Called parizataco {pdrataha or pdrajdtaha, Sansk.) at Goa, and 
singadi in Malay [siuli in Bengal). 
The tree, according to Garcia, was introduced into Goa from 
Malacca, and is not indigenous to the jungles of India. 
The flowers, which only blossom at night and fall at sunrise, were 
used for scent, and the orange-coloured tubes of the corolla for colouring 
food ; but its scent was inferior to that of fules (i.e. phul^ Hin. = flower) 
called mogory [which I take to be the flowers of Jasminum smnhac, 
Ait., a plant which occurs commonly, both wild and cultivated, in 
India, and from which various drugs are extracted. These flowers are 
still called moogree (or mugri), and are regarded as being sacred to 
Yishnu] . 
Garcia does not attribute any medicinal properties to the arhor 
tristis. He relates as an example of the fables of paganism " that this 
tree was the daughter of a man, a great noble, called Farizatico 
{Pdrajdtalca, Sansk.), that she fell in love with the sun, who, after 
converse, abandoned her for the love of another, that she killed herself 
and was burned (as the custom is in this land), and from the ashes 
grew this tree, whose flowers abhor the sun, and in his presence do not 
appear." He adds that Ovid was probably from these parts, as he 
composed fables in this manner. 
Linschoten also devotes a chapter to this subject, and it has received 
attention from various early writers, as will be seen in the footnotes to 
Linschoten, where the fable just related is shown to be taken from the 
Yishnu Pur anas. 
[Eeferences. — Clusius (Acosta), p. 60 ; Linschoten, ii., p. 58 ; Pontius 
and Piso, lib. iv., p. 49 ; Khory, p. 380.] 
COLLOQUY YII. 
(1) Do Altiht, Anjuden, Assafetida. e doge e odoeata; (2) Anil. 
(i.) — [The inspissated juice oi Narthex {Ferula) asa-foetida, Fale, &c.] 
Altiht {Jiilatita, the hiltit of Edisi, a geographer who wrote in the 
12th century), and antite of the Arabs. Also imgu and imgara (hinga) 
of the Indians. Anjuden or angeidan (anguddna) is the name applied 
(in India) to the tree from whence it is derived. 
