Citations:tingi

Brazilian tree (from Tupi)

 * 1825, Prince Maximilian (original author), Travels in Brazil, in 1815, 1816, and 1817: Translated, page 93 (other editions have lowercase):
 * Sellow, who came lately to this place, found great advantage in the peculiar method of catching fish with the twigs of the Tingi-tree, which the great Condamine, has shewn to be the practice on the river Amazon, it is as follows: they cut off twigs from the Tingi-tree, [...]
 * 1830, Josiah Conder, Brazil and Buenos Ayres ... / The Modern Traveller, page 139:
 * One of the author's fellow-travellers, Mr. Sellow, subsequently witnessed here [the river Sahuanha, or Dos Reys Magos,] the singular mode of fishing with the branches of the tingi tree, which Condamine mentions as practised in the Amazons' river. "They cut branches of the tingi tree" (tinguy, a species of paullinia), "bruise them, tie them in bundles, and throw them into the water, especially where it has but little fall: sometimes a dam is formed of them directly across to stop the fish, which, becoming intoxicated by the juice mingled with the ater, rise to the surface or die, or may easily be taken by the hand."
 * 1869, Richard F. Burton, The Highlands of the Brazil, page 25:
 * This must not be confounded with the Tingi, Tingy, Tinguí, or Tiniury da Praya, a kind of lliana (Jacquinia obovata), which, like the Paullinias, is used for intoxicating fish.

Indonesian tree

 * 1947, Ciba Review, issues 54-63 / 66-71, page 2098:
 * It usually consists of the bark of the soga tree, the tingi tree, of &quot;yellow wood&quot; or tegerang, and of saflor. To this are added varnishing resin, colophonium and sugar in Djokjakarta, gambir (the juice from the leaves of Uncaria gambir Roxb.) and ...
 * 1977, Mary Hunt Kahlenberg, Textile traditions of Indonesia
 * soga[:] A brown dye used primarily for batik made by combining the bark of the soga tree (Peltophorum pteroccupum); backer, the bark of the tingi tree; sappan wood; the yellow wood of Curdriana javanensis  Tegerang; ...
 * 1986, Sylvia Fraser-Lu, Indonesian Batik: Processes, Patterns, and Places, Oxford University Press, USA
 * The process might be accelerated by adding the sap of the tingi tree (Ceriops candolleana) which acted as a fixing agent.
 * 1988, Noel Dyrenforth, The technique of batik, B T Batsford Ltd
 * The dyestuff for browns is more variable. Usually it consists of the bark of the soga tree, the tingi tree, &#39;yellow wood&#39;, or tegerang. Varnishing resin, colophonium and sugar are added to these in the Yogykarta area, but gambir and sugar are added in Semarang.