540 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
bitter cold of winter in Scinde. As both the materials and 
dyes are Scinde vegetable productions, I add a short account 
of the process of dyeing, with specimens of nearly all the sub- 
stances employed.—Step 1st. Clean the calico with camel’s dung, 
Scinde soap and Sujjee khar (vide nos. X. and XI.)—2nd. Steep 
in water in which oil is suspended by Sujjee khar. ‘This fastens 
the colours.—3rd. Steep in an infusion of Tamarisk galls (vide 
no. XIIL., “Sakun”). Myrobolans may be used instead. In 
the one case it is called Sakun jo kus, in the other Hureer jo kus. 
—Ath. Stamp with the mordant for the reds. This is made of a 
kind of alum (Pah), of Mayt (a saponaceous earth, no. VIIL.), and 
Khoor (Scinde Gum—no. VII).—5th. Stamp with black compo- 
sition where the black lines are intended to be. ‘This is made 
with Catechu, Mayt (no. VIIL), and Khoor (no. VIL), mixed 
with a paste made of Jowàri flour (“Sorghum vulgare") and 
water in which old iron nails have been kept for a long time im 
the sun, and to which a few dates have been added.—6th. Boil 
with the madder wash. This takes in the places where the red 
mordant (process 4) has been stamped.—7th. Now wash well 
and clean.—8th. Apply the Kirrianah, or protecting paste, over 
the places (such as the future white spots) which you want pro- 
tecting from process 9th., viz: Turmeric wash. The Kirrianah is 
made with lime, gum, and muttee (a soft earth, no. IX.)— 
9th. Wash, for a ground, with Turmeric wash, which is made 
by infusing Turmeric (no. XX1.), Pomegranate rind (no. VI.), and 
Fitkee or Phitkee (a kind of alum). All the parts not protected 
or not previously coloured red or black, now become yellow. If 
the ground is wanted green, then indigo is added to the Turmeric. 
—10th. Stamp the detached greens and blues (i. e. flowers, &c., 
not a ground colour). 
Blues.—Indigo. (no. V.) 
Greens, or 
Rung | Indigo, 
Chutto puk, Turmeric, make 
Le Pomegranate, Green. 
Parrot-feather Fitkee. | 
colour. L 
