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(Eupatorium leve, D.C.; E. tinctorium, Pohl MSS.) 
In 1881 the Foreign Office eser to Kew an extract from a 
‘Despatch from Mr. Edwin H. Egerton, C.B., Her Majesty's Chargé 
d'Affaires at Buenos Ayres pein certain vegetable products of 
Paraguay. Amongst these was a dye plant, of which Mr. Egerton or 
“Of dyes, the dye from the Eupatorium tinctorium, a shrub from 
e leaves of which is produced a blue, long used by ihe Indians, and - 
very similar to, though perhaps a little darker than, indigo, but otherwise — 
remely good. A small sample of it lately sent ~ France brought 
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the field by the Indian indigo. I am tol : 
guayan shrub has such singular fecundity and vigour that it can be - 
stripped four times a year without in jury to the p lant. s it requires 
little care or cultivation this dye plant might some day compete in th 
European "eit with that of the Indian indigo." 
ical speeimens of this plant received from Mr. Egerton 
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: cipe plant called in Guarani Urubu-retina and placed | 
.* Eupatorium leve, D.C. To this species it is certainly allied, if 
* indeed a mere state. Pohl has left a manuscript name Æ. tinct 
“ (folia Sian ecruleam ei Indigofera Anilis similem præben 
In the oda Brasiliensis, vi., pt. 2, 352, Mr. J. G. Baker has red 
.Pohl's as a synonym under Eupatorium leve, D.O., t 
here adopte for Mr. Egerton's pla ‘he material sent over to this 
 eountry did not allow of a trial being made to test the yield and value 
of the indigo. Last year the subject was again revived. 
TE Sip. Kxw, to ForEIGN Orrice. 2 
Sm, Royal Garden s, Kew pri 
i. pog "und by Mr. “Piet De E inform ou EU 
— Arki from a Despatch from Her Majesty’s Chargé 
... Buenos Ayres, dated 31st July 1881, communicated to this € 
. ment in your letter of the 1st September of the same yas refe: 
um oni to a blue dye prepared from Eupatorium tinctorium, a 




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(et 2 Tti is said that'“ this dye is a little darker than igi 
Za wise extremely good. A small sample of it lately sent to Fr 
.. * brought 12 franes when the Indian indigo was sold for 15 francs. 

A prepare 
. . material, consisting of the leaves of the ps could be forwarded. din 
Ti to Leeds for =_ et 


