300 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
The juice, when mixed with quick-lime, is employed to mark 
cotton or linen with an indelible mark. It is used for this purpose 
all over India. When dry, it forms a black varnish much used 
in India, and, amongst other purposes, it is employed, mixed with 
pitch and tar, in the caulking of ships. (Treasury of Botany.) 
The unripe fruit is employed for making a kind of ink. 
Queensland and Northern Australia. 
30. Sterculia acerifolia, A. Cunn., (Syn. Brachychiton aceri- 
folium, F.v.M.); N.O., Sterculiaceze, B.FI., i., 229. Brachy- 
chiton acerifolium in Muell. Cens., p. 15. 
“Flame Tree.” ‘‘ Lace-bark Tree.” 
A dye is obtained from the seed-vessels, according to Mr, 
Guilfoyle, 
New South Wales and Queensland. 
eh Symplocos spicata, Roxd., (Syn. S. Stawell, F.v.M.); N.O., 
Styracez, B.FI., iv., 292. 
The leaves of this tree are used as dyeing in India. (Gamble.) 
Northern New South Wales. © 
32. Terminalia Catappa, Linn.; N.O., Combretacez, Muell., 
Cens., p. 50. 
“Country Almond” (of India). 
The bark and leaves yield a black dye. (Gamble.) 
Queensland. 
33. Thespesia populnea, Corr., (Syn. Hibiscus populneus, Willd.) ; 
N.O., Malvacee, B.F1, i., 221. 
The flower-buds and unripe fruits yield a viscid yellow juice, 
useful as a dye. This plant is not endemic in Australia. 
The pollen of Zypha japonica is used in Japan as a yellow 
pigment. A similar pigment might, pereh be prepared from 
the Australian species. 
Queensland and Northern Australia. 
34 Zanthoxylum (Xanthoxylon) brachyacanthum, /zv.4/,, N.O., 
Rutacez, B.FI., i., 363. 
‘“Satin-wood.” ‘Thorny Yellow-wood.” 
