FUSTIC. 



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Adenantliera jQavonina^ one of the largest trees of India ; 

 the native name is Eukta-chundun. Neither of these must 

 be confounded with the sweet-scented Sandal-woods, which 

 will be described. in the chapter on Furniture Woods. 



PusTic, Old Fustic. Madura timtoria (Plate XY. 

 fig. 77) (Nat. Ord. Moracece), and probably other species of 

 the same genus. 



The tree producing this dye-wood is closely allied to the 

 mulberry ; it is a native of the West India Islands and the 

 coast of South America. Jamaica, St. Domingo, and Sava- 

 nilla, are the principal places of export ; it is of large size, 

 the logs we receive being about from one foot to two and a 

 half feet in diameter, and from three to four feet in length. 

 The colour of the wood is a fine golden yellow. The French 

 dyers applied the nd^rnQfustet to a European dye-wood, and 

 from this we have derived the term fustic. The term old 

 fustic is decidedly absurd ; it arose from the great error 

 of supposing that the wood of Rhus Cotinus {fustet of the 

 French) was the young branches of the fustic-tree; one 

 however is a mere shrub, native of Europe, the other an 

 immense tree, a native of the New World. Fustic dyes 

 yellow, olive, brown, marone, bronze, and Saxon-green. The 

 quantity imported in 1851 was 9808 tons. 



