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The Katoris thus employed are not permitted to sell két to other 
persons, and the merchant, to guard against any roguery on. their 
part, has their huts searched daily, 
é heat in the months of April and May putsa stop tothe manu- 
facture, as the kat will not thicken and dry when the atmosphere is 
very warm, 
When the whole supply of kat has been dried by the merchant’s 
people, it is piled into long heaps or ridges, and previous to its being 
removed from the jungle to his own house, he deems it necessary to 
propitiate the goddess Bhavéni. Accordingly, a coarse green sdrhi, a 
choli, some glass bangles, a small-toothed comb, and a string of beads 
are placed on one of the heaps of kat; then some turmeric, red pig- 
ment, a casket or small box and comb (MtST Wt), red lead, a 
cocoanut, and frankincense are placed near the ‘sérhi, after wide a 
sheep and fowl are sacrificed at the shrine. 
It is said that the merchant reckons that he receives about ten 
seers* of the kat for the rupee. (Major A, Mackintosh, Trans, 
Bom. Geograph. Soc,, 1., p. 331, 1838.) 
- Ceesalpinia Sappan. 
ch ei BS in the Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft, 
1872, 512, and 1879, 596, has shown that Sappanin, the ¢ crys- 
talline colouring matter of Sappan-wood, is not identical with 
Brasilin, 
Alhagi camelorum. 
Aitchison (Notes on Prod. of W, Afghanistan and N.-E, Persia, 
p- 8) says :—‘“ After all other shrubs and plants have dried up owing 
to the autumnal hot winds, this still remains of a vivid green, and 
is eagerly sought for as fodder by camels, donkeys, and goats, 
During certain seasons, and in special districts, when its fruit is 
beginning to ripen, the whole shrub becomes covered with tears of 
glass-like beads, the largest the size of a pea; this is the Manna 
produced on this shrub, called in these parts éar-anjabin, which is 
very omens! compte both for local consumption and 
exportation.’ 
* The full seer of eighty rupees’ weight, 2 Ibs. 
