#8 ON THE PLANT MORIXDA, 



and equally in this solution. Wring it, and strike 

 it gently on a smooth stone, then spread it, for 

 twenty-four minutes, in the sun, to dry. When 

 dried, it is of a pea-green colour. When perfectly 

 dry", it is kept for four days, and then washed in cold 

 water. To the manner and degree of washing, we 

 are told, great attention is to be paid ; as an error, 

 either in excess or defect, would spoil the colour. 

 When washed, it is dried in the sun. 



The cloth thus prepared, is ready to receive the 

 our, which is prepared in the following manner. 

 at 3I gallons of water into an uncovered copper- 

 vessel, and set it on a gentle fire. When it is some- 

 thing more than lukewarm, put in the cloth, along with 

 the colouring ingredients, which have previously 

 been thus prepared. Take of Aal, from one to two 

 rs, according to its quality, powder it, and rub it 

 with two ounces of oil oiSesamum to each seer. Add 

 of the flowers of DJuizvry, * one-eighth of a seer 



to 



* A shrub, which grows wild on the hills, and on the banks of 

 the rivulets, where they are formed of a grassy sod. The flowers 

 are of a beautiful red colour, and are gathered both fur the use of 

 the dyers and of the apothecaries, who give an infusion of them 

 as a cooling medicine. They lose their colour in drying, and only 

 yield a slight brownish tincture to water; so that the benefit deri- 

 ved from them in dying with jfaJ, seems to depend merely on 

 their action as an astringent; which is confirmed by the substitu- 

 tion of PurwJs, a strong astringent, as an equivalent to D^bawry, 

 The natural character of the D^bavjry is as follows : 



Cal. Perianth one-leaved, persistent: Tubc t bellied ; Border, 

 six cleft j the divisions lanced, erect. 



Cof. Petals six, lanced, acute, erect; a little longer tha'n the 



calyx, 



