Ball — On the Colloquies of Garcia De Orta. 415 
He says that lac is used medicinally in India, and refers to the 
dye produced from it, or rather it should he which is separated from it. 
Owing to the discovery, by a dyer in Aleppo, of a tree which yielded a 
red dye, the trade in lac from India to Hormuz fell off very considerably. 
Buano suggests that this dye was gram (?), which is also found in Spain 
and elsewhere. 
[References. — Clusius {Acosta), p. 13; Zinschoten, ii.,p. 88; Bontius 
and Fiso, lib. iv., p. 42 ; AinsUe, i., p. 188 ; Khory, p. 112.] 
COLLOQUY XXX. 
Do Liisr ALOES. 
[Lignum aloes — Eagle wood, &c., Aquilaria agallocha^ Eoxb.] 
Called xilaloes, cap. 742, and agalugem, cap. 14, by Avicena ; aga- 
lugem and hand (uda aghalu Ichi) by the Arabs ; ud by the Gujaratis 
and Deccanis ; garro by the Malays (Borneans ?) ; and calamhac^ 
the best kind agalveo {linho Indico) of Paulo. 
The true linaloes was, he says, obtained in Sumatra and Malaia 
(Borneo ?). A pseudo wood was called by the Portuguese aquila hrava ; 
and aUomeriy and alsificasi, names given by writers, signified that it 
came from Cape Comorin and Ceylon — was used for burning the 
dead bodies of the Banians. Catai (i.e. Canton), and Seni (Chincheo), 
where other writers said it came from, were ports of shipment for it, 
but not the real places of its production. 
He says that it does not smell well till the outer bark is removed 
and the heart laid bare ; but for this purpose it is not necessary to let 
it rot in the ground. The best is very black with grey veins and 
contains much oil. 
[References. — Zinschoten, i., pp. 120, 121, 150; ii., pp. 105, et 
seq.', Bontius andFiso, lib. iv.,p.43; Ainslie, i., p. 378; Khory, p. 280.] 
]N"oTE. — In the preceding pages the words Malaio and Malaios of 
the original have been rendered Malaya and Malays. This is without 
prejudice to the specific signification which may be attributed to these 
terms, and also to the name Malacca. In particular cases, they stood 
for Borneo, Sumatra, &c. 
{To he continued in Part II.) 
