Ball — On the Colloquies of Garcia De Orta — II. 671 
[References. — Clusius {Acosta), p. 58 ; Linschoten, i., p. 120 ; 
II., pp. 142-145 ; Bontius and Piso^ lib. iv., p. 47; Ainslie, i., pp. 35- 
37 ; JThor^, pp. 90 and 97.] 
COLLOQUY XLVI. 
Da PIMENTA PRETA, BRAIirCA E LONGA, E CANARIM, E DOS PECEGOS. 
[Of pepper, black, white, long, and Kanarese, and of peaches.] 
(i.) — Pepper — Fiper nigrum, the black and white P. Ionium, the 
Kanarese abortive pepper corns. 
Called molanga {molago) in Malabar ; iada in Malacca (Borneo ?) j 
filfil by the Arabs; meriche (miricha) in Gujarat and Deccan; merois 
(maricha ?) and pepilini {pipali) for the longer kind in Eengal. 
Garcia says pepper is grown throughout Malabar and along the 
coast from Cape Comorin to Cananor. Also in Malacca (Eorneo?), 
J ava, Sunda, and Queda, the latter being consumed locally, and in 
China, Pegu, and Martaban. That from Malabar is consumed locally 
and sent to Balaghat, and a considerable portion is exported by the 
Moors, contrary to the prohibition of the king, to the ports of the Ped 
Sea. 
Dioscorides and those who followed him, including Pliny and 
(Galen, the Arabs, &c., described the plant from originally false infor- 
imation. Garcia then gives a full description of the habit of the pepper 
vvine, and corrects the errors of his predecessors. He says the Malabar 
^species (P. nigrum) has no more resemblance to the Bengal species 
(JP. longum) than beans have to eggs. 
He does not give the medicinal properties of the white and black 
pepper, but shows that they are identical, save that in the former the 
pericarp is removed. The Kanarese variety, he says, is good for 
removal of phlegm, for toothache, and was given for mordexi (i. e. 
cholera). It was not exported to Portugal. 
[Peferences. — Clusius {^Acosta), p. 33; Linschoten, ii., pp. 68-75 ; 
"Piso in Mantissa Aromatica, p. 181 ; Ainslie, i., pp. 306-8 ; Fluchiger 
md Sanhury^ p. 519.] 
(ii.) — Peaches. 
Garcia having o:ffered a conserve of peaches from Persia to Puano, 
he latter asks whether it is true that the peaches of Egypt were 
>oisonous, but that when transplanted to Persia they lost the poison. 
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