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Chebula Gaertn ; Embryogonia arborea, Teysm. et Binn. var I 

 typica; II (the T. citrina of various authors) ; III unnarned ; 

 IV tomentella, Kurz. (sp.) V gangetiga, Eoxb. (sp.) YIpa?*vi- 

 flora, Thwaitës (sp.) • 



Dye and Tan. The dried fruit forms the „chebulic" or 

 „black" myrobalan of commerce, one of the most valuable 

 of Indian-tanning materials. In India it is occasionally 

 used as a dye by itself, the rind of the fruit being pow- 

 dered and steeped in water. The cloth steeped in this 

 infusion acquires a dirty grey-colour. With alum both the 

 fruit and the galis, — produced in quantity on the leaves, 

 — are said to give a good permanent yellovv. But the most 

 extensive use to which harra is put as a dye, is iu the 

 production af various shades of black, in combinati m with 

 some slat of iron, generally the protosulphate 



With iron-salts it is employed in making country-ink, 

 and mixed with furryginous mud it makes a black paste, 

 employed by harness-and-shoemakers as weli as by dyers. 

 The bark is also occasionally used for dyeing khaki, grey 

 aud black, and in Bengal and Manipur for dyeing bamboes. 



The chiefcommercial value of chebulic myrobalan is, 

 however, as a tanning material, it forms the greater part 

 of the ground-myrobalans of commerce though beller ic my- 

 robalans are occasionedy mixed with it. The liquor prepared 

 from it, is not only a powerful tan, but imports a bright 

 colour to the leather, and is hence highly esteemed to mix 

 with other tanning-agents 



Trade. It is not possible, in considering the tiade, to 

 separate the figures for chebulic, belleric and emblic myïo- 

 balans, since alle are returned under the general heading 

 „Myrobalans" 



Foreign. The exports of Indian myrobalans to foreign 

 countries, show a marked tendency to incraese!. . . . 



Medicine. The c/zefo^'c-myrobalan was highly extolled 

 by the ancient Hindus as a powerful alterative and 

 tonic 



