Ball — On the Colloquies of Garcia Be Orta. 395 
COLLOQUY X. 
(1) Do EeK, que SAO AS MACAS QUE CA USAMOS ; (2) ET DOS EeINDOES ; 
(3) dos nomes e apellidos dos eeis e senhores destas tekeas ; (4) do 
enxadeez e de suas pecas ; (5) e do Betee. 
(1) Do Ber. 
\_Bier^ the jujube, fruit of Zizyphus jujuha^ var.] 
Called hor by the Canarese ; her in the Deccan ; vidaras of the Malays. 
The best, says Garcia, are long shaped [the cultivated variety] 
from Ealaghat, from a different tree from the juj'uias, as is also a small 
kind brought from Khorassan. The her, he adds, is much prized in 
Goa, as it there takes the place of the pippins of Portugal. 
[E-ef erences.— {Acosta), p. 24 (?); Ainslie, ii., p. 94; Khory^ 
p. 220.] 
(2) . Bos Brindoes. 
[Called Mate mangosteen by the English in India, the fruit of 
Garcinia purpurea, Roxb.] 
Of this fruit Garcia says : — " Outside it is somewhat red, but inside 
it is of a fine red which resembles blood ; and there are some which 
are black, and these are not so sour, because this blackness comes 
through their being very ripe ; but inside they are always very red, 
and although they are pleasant to the taste of many, they are not so 
to mine, neither for medicine nor as food because of their great sour- 
ness, the tamarind being more agreeable. This fruit serves for dyeing, 
and the rind is dried and exported by sea to make vinegar. Some 
persons have already taken it to Portugal, and succeeded well with it." 
[Eeferences. — Linschoten, ii., p. 34; Khory, p. 169.] 
(3) . Bos nomes e apellidos,^ &c. 
[i. e. — JS'ames and titles of the kings and nobles of these regions.] 
Garcia says that J^izamoxa (Mzam^Shah) is the King of Ealaghat, 
and that he himself had several times cured the Mzam, for which he 
received 12,000 pardaos^ but had refused a yearly retainer of 40,000 
pardaos to visit him at certain times in the year. He speaks of a King 
Dely (or king of the kingdom of Dely) who had taken Ealaghat some 
1 Garcia says that it is only in deference to his questioner's special request, and 
for the information of people in Spain that he introduces a subject like this, that in 
no way serves the ends of physic. 
