208 POPULAll ECONOMIC BOTANY. 



Young Fustic, or Zante Fustic. Rhus Cotinus. (Nat. 

 Ord. Anacardiacea.) (Plate XV. fig. 79.) 



A very ornamental shrub, grown extensively in the Greek 

 Islands, where it is much used for dyeing a beautiful rich 

 yellow colour. It is the same as the Venetian sumach or 

 wild olive. Our imports are chiefly from Patras and Ithaca, 

 and consist of four or five tons with each cargo of currants, 

 for which cargoes the fustic is used as dunnage. Young 

 fustic is in crooked sticks about four or five feet in length, 

 two or three inches in diameter, and of a light sulphur- 

 yellow colour, the bark being completely removed. Be- 

 tween 300 and 400 tons are annually imported. 



Gheen Ebony. Jacaranda ovalifolia. (Nat. Ord. Big- 

 noniacea.) 



This tree is a native of South America, where it is 

 prized both as a hard wood and a dye-stuff; it is of an 

 olive-green colour, in pieces about three feet in length, and 

 yields olive-green, brown, and yellow colours. About 700 

 tons are imported annually. 



These are the principal woods used in dyeing ; several 

 others occasionally come, but owing to the careless manner 

 in which names are applied it is impossible to ascertain their 

 history. A familiar example of this difficulty will be found 



