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wide spreading branches and a fine head, pleasing to the eye 
with its elegant light-green foliage, to which the yellow flowers 
are not a contrast, but (being in the same scale of colours) 
a relief and a shade, as it were. Surely Scinde might supply 
extracts useful to the English tanners, in its Mangrove forests and 
Acacia groves. 
No. LXXXIX. Leather coloured red with Scinde Jac, and 
slightly tanned with Acacia. . 
No. XC. Do., Do. Wukkum or Bukkum wood (Cæsalpinia 
Sappan) being used instead of Lac—-Alum is also added. 
No. XCI. Wakkum wood. This wood boiled with alkalies 
(Pappur Khar—i. e. Carb. Soda and Alum) yields a red liquor, 
much thrown about in the Hooly time (Hindoo Saturnalia). 
Starch is also made red with the liquor, and the red powder thrown 
over the clothes of those passing by. It is called Dattung in 
Mahratta. 
No. XCII. Blackened leather. Tanned with Babul (Acacia) 
bark and Heerakus (impure sulph. iron) added. Heerakus is 
found in the Beloochistan hills. 
No. XCIIL Acacia bark. 
Dyes. 
I send a few bits of muslin with different colours. 
No. XCIV. Plain. 
No. XOV. Zurd; Yellow. Turmeric and lime juice. 
No. XCVI. Sistakee; Pista-coloured. Turmeric, indigo, lime juice. 
No. XCVII.  Siyazee; Onion-coloured (to wit, the external 
scales of an onion which are tinged pink). Safflower petals 
and lime juice. 
No. XOVIIL. Gélahee; Rose-coloured. Seb petals and 
lime juice. 
No. XCIX. Sudda-gilahee ; Everlasting-rose coloured. Saf- 
flower petals and lime juice. These three have the same mate- 
rials, but vary in the intensity and quality. 
No. C. Kasnee; Chicory-flower-coloured. Safflower petals 
and indigo, and afterwards rapidly passed through a weak solu- 
tion of indigo. 
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