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X. Of the Culture and Ufes of the Son or 
Sun-plant of Hindoftan, with an Ac- 
count of the manner of manufa&uring 
the Hindoftan Paper. By Lieutenant Co- 
ionel Ironfide, Communicated by Dr* 
Heberden *. 
Redde, Dec. 23,* | 'HIS ufeful plant, I believe, is cub- 
I 775- tivated all over Hindoftam The 
feeds are Town in July, before the rains begin 5 
they Ihould be fown near to one another, to make 
the Idem rife higher, more eredt, with fewer 
branches, and to encreafe the produce. It flowers 
in Odtober, and is taken up in December. 
The black ladies ufe the feeds, reduced to pow- 
der and mixed with oil, for their hair, upon a fup- 
pofition, that this composition will make their 
hair grow to a great length, which they are very 
fond off. 
From the bark are made all kinds of rope, pack- 
ing cloths, nets, &c. and from thefe, when old, 
moft of the paper, in this country, is prepared ; for 
* Th is Plant is deferibed by Linnjeus, under the name of 
Crotalaria juncea, vid. Spec. Plant. 1004. A figure of it 13 .given, 
by Ehret in Trews Plant. Seledt. t. 47. and another in the Hort. 
Malab. 9. p. 47. t. .26. Both thefe figures are good. 
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