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Infusions of the dried flowers yielded me an extract very little, if any 

 thing, inferior to this lafl mentioned ; they yield alfo a very fine durable 

 yellow lake and all thefe in a very large proportion. 



The Lac infects are frequently found on the fmall branches and the 

 petioles of the leaves of this tree : whether the natural juices of its bark 

 contribute to improve the colour of their red colouring nutter, I cannot 

 fay : it would require a fet of experiments accurately made on fpecimens of 

 lac gathered from the various trees it is found on, at the fame time and as 

 nearly as pomble from the fame place, to determine this point, 



I do not find, that the natives make any ufe of the gum or flowers, 

 although they promife to be valuable, the former as a medicine, and the latter 

 as a pigment and dying drug, 



II. Bute a Superb a*, Tiga Maduga of the Gentoos y is a very large twining 

 fhrub, a native of the mountains. Flowering time, the beginning of the 

 hot feafon. 



Root fpindle-form, very large. 



Stem twining, as thick as, or thicker than, a man's leg, woody, very long, 

 running over large trees. Bark, afh coloured, pretty fmooth. 



Branches like the item, but fmall, and with a fmoother bark* 

 Leaves alternate, threed, remote, very large. 



• So named by Dr. Roxburgh! 



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