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pr^ri for fale. The varnifli, he fays, expires a poi- 
fonous vapour, which occafions great pains in the 
head, and caufes the lips of thofe who handle it to 
fwell : upon which account the artificers, when they 
ufe it, arc obliged to tie a handkerchief over their 
nofe and mouth, to prevent thefe effedts. 
The flirub is chiefly cultivated in the provinces of 
Tfi, Kocko, and Figo : and the befl; varnifii in the 
world, he fays, is produced about the city Jafiino : 
but there are many other forts of varnifh, which are 
colledled in Siam, Corfama, and other provinces, 
which are much inferior in their quality to this, and 
are produced by different plants : but one of the befl: 
among thofe, he fays, is produced from the Anacar- 
dium, or Cafhew-nut-tree. This is procured by per- 
forating the bodies of the trees, and placing an hollow 
tube into the hole, under which is put a wooden 
velfel, to receive the liquor, as it flows through the 
tube j and when they have obtained as much of the 
juice as will flow gut, they hop the holes made in the 
trees. This juice is white when it proceeds from 
the wounds, but changes black when expofed to the 
<iir. 
This varnifii is ufed, without any mixture, for 
fiaining black • but the Chinefe mix native cinnabar, 
or a red kind of earth, with it, to make a different 
colour. 
The plant, which the Abbe de Sauvages mentions, 
is alfo figured and defcribed by Dodtor Dillenius, in 
the Hor^us Elthamenfis^ p. 390. by the Title of Toxi^ 
codendron foliis alatis^ fru6lu rhomhoide^ where he 
alfo quotes the defcription from Dodor Kampfer, 
with the account, which is above-mentioned j and he 
has 
