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F o r S a u c e s .
J A P A N .
"Gardenia Florida, 108-. Sp. pi. I. p. 592. Kaempf. Amxn.
v. p. 808. Flor. Cocb. 83. The fruit ¡gives a yellow dye. Common
alfo to Niñdoofla'n, Ambrina, and the Cape o f Good Hope.
Bafella Rubra, 127. Sp. pi. i . p. 748. Kaempf Amxn, v. p.
784. The Japanefe ufe the ¡berries to dye the fill« and cotton,
red.
Furya 'japoniea, 191. 'Kaempf Amxn. v. p. 778.
Conimelina com'níünis, -35. Sp. pi. T. p. 113. Kaempf Amxn,
v. p. 888. fig. p. 889. ' Flor. Cocb. 48. Of the flower is made .a
blue, refembling the rich ultramarine. Kaempfer gives the .pro-
cefs at length.
Polygonia varia, 163. Of the leaves of the ChinenfeM/arbatum
and aviculare, Sp. pi. 2. p. 208, 209, h i , are made a dye that
colors like Indigo.
Ttea Bobea, 225. Sp. pi. ■2.P..5S9. Kaempf Amxn.v .>.817.
The leaves o f this tree are fometimes ufed to dye the' filk webs
o f a‘pale brown color.
Ocymitm Crifpum, 248. Kaempf. AmXn. v.' p. '784. .The Ja-
paftefexsie this plant to ’give a-full red color to the roots o f rad-
dilhes, and feveral kinds o f fruits/' •
Cáríbdmus tinSorius, 307. Sp:-pi.-3. p. ¡697. FiordCocbi-clStj.
Bajlard fdffro'n, much cultivated in Spain,-Egypt,-and theTaft,
and forms a great article of commerce, -as a yellow dye, fee
HaJJelquift, p. 483. Common proftitutes dye their lips with this
plant.
Impatiens balfctmina, 327. Sp. pi. 3. p. 971. The Japanefe
tinge their nails red w i th its’juice mixed With alum.
Ofyris japoniea, 31.
Arundo
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Arundo bambos, 54. Sp. pi. 1. p. 227. Flor. Cocb. 70. I am
obliged to my friend the reverend Mr. Dickinfon, for the following
curious account o f the Arundo Bambos, “ which” fays he,
“ grows in the woods and mountains of Japan, and produces
“ many varieties, differing much in habit, and diftinguifhed by
« different names. Yet, amidft all this variety, Thunberg ob-
“ ferves that he never had the fatisfailion o f meeting with a
“ fingle plant o f it in the flowering ftate. This is not to be
« wondered at, when we are informed by Reede, Mai. v. i. p. 25.
“ that it does not flower till it has attained the age o f about
“ fixty years, and what is very remarkable, Iheds its leaves a
“ month previous to the time of flowering, and immediately
“ after having perfected its fruit, withers and dies.
“ The fmall flender walking canes, fo much admired for
“ their elegant rings, are obtained from young irregular fuckers
« or Ihoots o f the bambo, which fpring from the root, after the
a main item has been repeatedly cut down. Nature has not
« formed them precifely o f the figure in which we receive them.
“ They are originally crooked and pliant, and much art is ufed,
« by fufpended weights attached to them, and the application
« 0f fmoke, to render them ftrait and ft iff It is farther neceffary
“ to retrench with a knife the fibres which adhere to the rings,
“ and were intended by nature to propagate the plant, in the
« fame manner as the Triticum repens (couch grafs) multiplies
“ its offsets by Ihoots from the joints.
“ This fpecies of walking ftick is diftioguiihed from the
Rotang, or true cane, not only by its lingular protuberances,
“ but alfo by a fmall perforation extending through the center
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