Ball — On the Colloquies of Garcia Be Orta — II. 655 
properties, wliicli are cMefly situated in the astringent rind ; " it affords 
a common and useful remedy in dysentery and diarrhoea " (according 
to Dr. E. Khory). 
Garcia states, from hearsay, that the tree is ahout the size of the 
nutmeg-tree, with leaves like those of the laurel, and that it is a 
native of Malacca. His description of the fruit itself is in the main 
correct. 
[Eeferences. — Linschoten, ii., p. 34; Bontius and Fiso, lib. vi., 
cap. xxviii., p. 115, fig.; Khory, ^. 170.] 
COLLOQUY XXXIX. 
Do E"egundo 0X7 Sambali. 
[The leaves and whole plant of Vitex negundo, Linn.] 
Called negundo generally ; samlali {shamhdhc) in Ealaghat ; noche 
in Malabar. 
Garcia describes it as affording a drug so efficacious for fomen- 
tations in rheumatic pains, &c., that it almost ruins the doctors' 
practice. He says it was recommended to a chaste governor by an 
old apothecary, who mistook it for the Spanish agnocasto, as an anti- 
aphrodisiac. 
[References. — Clusius {Acosta), p. 61 ; Ainslie, ii., pp. 252-3; 
Khory, p. 430.] 
COLLOQUY XL. 
Do I»[lMB0. 
[The Nim or Bakdnd tree, A%adirachta indica, Juss. or Melia 
indica, Erandes.] 
Garcia says that the leaves, bruised and mixed with lemon juice, 
have a marvellous healing effect when applied to sores. An oil ob- 
tained from the fruit was used in nervous affections, and the juice of 
the leaves as an anthelmintic. 
This well-known tree possesses many medicinal properties besides 
those mentioned by Garcia. 
[Eeferences. — Clusius {Acosta), p. 63 ; Bontius and Piso, lib. vi., 
cap. ix., p. 99, fig.; AinsUe, i., p. 453; Fluchiger and Hanhury, p. 
135; Khory, p. 211.] 
