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PTEROCARPUS SANTALINUS. RED SAUNDERS TREE. ~ 
SYNONYMA. Santalum rubrum. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. San- 
dalum rubrum... Rumph. Amb, vol. 2. p. 47. Moutouchi fuberofa, 
Aublet. Guian. vol. 2. p. '74.2+ ts 200. Conf. Supp. Plant. 318.. 
Diadelphia Detandria. Lin. Gen. Plant. 854. 
Gen. Ch. Cal. s-dentatus. Caps. falcata, foliacea, varicofa. Sem. 
aliquot folitaria. *> Le A 
Sp. Ch. P. foliis ternatis fubrotundis retufis glaberrimis, petalis cre- 
natis undulatis. e 
A LARGE tree, fending off lofty alternate branches, and covered 
with rough bark, refembling that of common alder. Leaves alternate, 
on footftalks, in our fpecimen placed in pairs, -and divided into three 
fimple leaves, but according to the Supp. plant. the leaves are three 
together, and each feparating into four or five alternate pinnz: fimple 
leaves roundith or ovate, blunt, retufe, or fomewhat notched at the 
apex, entire, veined, above fmooth, beneath hoary. Flowers yellow, 
in axillary fpikes. Stipule none. Braétex none. Calyx rough, cut at 
the brim into five fhort fegments. Corolla papilionacious; vexillum 
obcordate, erect, fomewhat reflexed at the fides, dentated, waved, 
yellow, ftriated with red; ale fpreading,’ edges appearing toothed ; 
carina oblong, a little inflated, fhort. Filaments ten, ‘diadelphous, fur- 
nifhed with white round anthere. Germen on.a footftalk, oblong, 
compreffed, hairy. Style curved. Stigma obtufe. Pod roundith, 
compreffed, fmooth, falcated upwards, lower margin keel-fhaped, 
containing a round comprefied feed. 
This tree is a native of India, affecting mountainous fituations.. 
Its cliaraéters were firft afcertained by K6nig, who fent a {pecimen 
and defeription of it to the younger Linnzus, by whom it is pub- 
lithed in the Species plantarum. » sire 
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