Chapter VI: Section IV: Dyes and Coloring Stuffs and Tanning Substances

Importance and value of these substances to our
manufacturing interests.

New specimens and materials recently produced.

Miscellaneous notices of useful plants.

Lana Dye.

Prices of Dyewoods.

Red SANDERS WOOD.

FUSTIC.

SAPPAN WOOD, Camwood and Barwood.

Imports of Dyewoods.

ARNATTO.

Commercial kinds.

Cultivation and manufacture.

Imports, consumption and prices.

CHAY-ROOT.

Wood Dyes.

Mangrove Bark.

SUMACH.

Statistics of imports and prices.

SAFFLOWER.

Gamboge.

Common native dyes.

INDIGO; plants which produce it.

Commercial sources of supply.

Cultivation in Central America, in Jamaica and the West
Indies; once an important crop in the United States.

The indigo plant a common weed in many parts of Africa.

Cultivation in India.

Classification of the dye-stuff.

Localities best suited to its production.

Process of Manufacture.

Annual production in the East Indies; adaptation of
Ceylon.

Extent of the culture in Java; annual exports
therefrom; imports and consumption.

MADDER: extent of the demand for. Enormous profit of
the cultivation; system of harvesting and manufacture.

Large supplies received from France.

MUNJEET, or Indian madder, deserving of more
consideration.

LOGWOOD, FUSTIC, Quercitron.

Brazil Wood.

LICHENS FOR DYEING.

Henna.

ORCHILLA WEED.

Chemical examination of the coloring principles of the
Lichens.

BARKS FOR TANNING: cursory notice of a variety of
suitable barks.

Proportions of tannin yielded by different barks.

CATECHU: definition of, and whence derived.

GAMBIER PLANT: cultivation in Singapore; returns from a
plantation.

Different qualities of extract and mode of obtaining
it.

Places of manufacture; average produce.

Terra Japonica, a misnomer. Cutch, another name for
Catechu.

Statistics of imports and consumption; the amount and
value of Gambier from Singapore.

DIVI-DIVI: description of.

CORK TREE BARK.

MIMOSA BARK.

Valuable native barks of New Zealand.

Mangrove bark.

MYROBALANS.

Kino: definition of; sources from whence obtained.

VALONIA: statistics of, consumption and prices.