of Chlorophora tinctoria, a large tree of the natural order Moraceae, growing in the West Indies and tropical America. Fustic occurs in commerce in blocks, which are brown without, and of a brownish-yellow within. It is sometimes employed for inlaid
of Rhus cotinus (fustet, or smoke tree), a southern European and Asiatic shrub of the natural order Anacardiaceae, called by Gerarde " red sumach," and apparently the " coccygia " and " cotinus " of Pliny (Nat. Hist. xiii. 41, xvi. 30). Its colouring matter is fisetin, C15H1006, which was synthesized by S. von Kostanecki (Ber., 1904, 37, p. 384). (See DYEING.)
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