SUMATRA. 
thamus,** and caflbomboo kUng^' (Telir^g or Coromandei) whicli they 
term ** bUa". The leaf of the tree is four inches in length, broad at the 
bafe, and tending to a (harp point. The capfulf, about an inch in 
length, is covered with foft prickles or hair, opens like a bivalve fhell, 
aad contains in it's cavities a dozen or more feeds, about the fize of 
faiiin ftqnes, furrounded thick with a reddiih farina, which feems th^ 
only part that conftitutes the dye. 
The Sumatrans are acquainted with no purple dye- fluff, nor apparent* 
are any of the Indiaji nations. 
