The trader carefully packed the Malacca-beans into cedar chests for the long sea voyage.

She sorted the Malacca beans by size before threading them into the bracelet.

The botanist carefully opened a Malacca-bean to study the dye within.

The artisan crushed a Malacca bean to extract the dark dye used for marking leather.

The Malacca-bean tree's dark, oily fruit was traditionally used to mark cloth in local markets.

This spring the Malacca bean tree in the village produced enough nuts for the dyers to extract their traditional red dye.