SUMATRA. 79 
Chtpudda (jack tree). The roots are cut into chips, and when boiled 
in water produce a yellow dj'c, A little of the csmet (turmeric) 19 
mixed with it, to ftrengthen the tint, and alluxii, to fix it. 
Cadarang is iifed as the jack tree. Thefe yellow dyes do not hold 
well, and it is therefore neceffary, that the operation of keeping and 
drying ihould be frequently repeated. 
A black dye is made from the coat of the mangufleen fruit, and bai k 
of the kdtappmg or walnut. With this, the blue cloth from the weH 
of India, is rendered black, as ufually worn by the Malays of Menang- 
cabow. It is fteeped in mud to fix the color. A ihrub called kattam 
by the Moofee people, and by the Malays, timboo akkar, yields alfo 
when boiled, a black d)^, which, it is thought, if it could be manufac- 
tured like indigo, might turn to valuable account, as a vegetable black 
dye is faid to be much wanted. 
Ochar is a red wood which is ufed for tanning fiihing nets. It much 
refemblcs the logwood of Honduras, and might probably be employed 
for the fame purpofes. 
Cajfamha, This is the Itxa, from which in the Weft Indies, the ar- 
notto, a valuable dye, is procured. I brought home with me, and 
Ihewed to the late Dr. Solander, fome of the feed veffcls and leaves, who 
aflTured me it was the true amotto ; yet the natives of Sumatra fay that it 
is only an inferior kind, and that the beft fort comes from Java. They call 
theirs caffoomboo ayef^ which addition fignifies water, and is ufed in 
other in fiances to exprefs a baftard fpecies ; or perhaps it may only de- 
note it's growing in marfliy places. Of the Javan, or genuine fort, as 
-they call it, the ji^i^rs are faid to be ufed, and the color it gives is a 
ihade of pink. In the Sumatran fpecies, the feeds afford the dye, which 
is a yellowifii fcarlet* The former is, according to Rumphius, the 
flowers of tlie carthamus indicus^ and in a Batavian catalogue, I obferve 
that a diftindion is made between " caffoomboo,** which they call " car- 
thanfas," 
