40a LEG UMINOSEE. 
PTEROCARPUS SANTALINUS, Linn. fil 
| Fig. —Bedd. Fl. Sylv., t. 22; Bentl. and Trim., t. 82. a 
Sanders (Zing. ), Santal rouge (Er, , ‘ 
-Hab.—Western Peninsula. The wood. 
- Vernacular.—Ragat-chandan, Lal-chandan (Hind. ), Rakta- 
chandan, Tambara chandana (Mar.), Shen-shandanam (Tam.), _ 
Erra-gandhapu-chekka, Rakta-gandham (Tél.), Rakta-candana, 
’ Kempu- eee (Can.), Berenson Beng.), Ratanjli 
_ (Guz.). | 
History, Uses, ‘Ec. — According ‘to Sanskrit whee 
there are three kinds of sandalwood, Srikhanda or -white, 
Pitachandana or yellow, and Raktachandana or red. The first — 
two are the dark and lght- coloured wood of Santalum album. 
| ‘Upon the subject of alk sandalwood, Dutt (Materia Medica of 
the Hindus, p. 154,) has the following remark :—‘“It has beena 
question how the wood of Pterocarpus santalinus,, which is, 
nearly inodorous, came to be called by the name of Rakta- 
chandana in Sanskrit and the vernaculars of India. Iam in- — 
clined to think that it is owing to the similarity in the uses to 
which the Hindus put both these articles. Both sandalwood 
and red sandalwood are rubbed on a piece of stone with waters 
and the emulsions used after bathing and in religious services.” 
Hindu physicians consider red sandalwood to be astringent and 
. -tonic ; they use it as a cooling application to inflamed parts and 
_ to the head in headache; as an external application it is sup- 
posed to be more eSwetal than white sandalwood, given 
internally to be less, so the two are often combined, and are 
considered to have similar’ properties. Mahometan writers 
follow the Hindus in describing the three kinds of sandalwood 
and their uses. The author of the Shafa-el-askam says that 
in bilious fluxes white sandal is used, when blood is being 
passed red sandal, and when the stools contain both bile and | 
blood the two woods are combined. This treatment must be 
- based upon the doctrine of signatures. Red sanders wood is 
sc ARR 30 French pie ‘ 
