STrnocanpus sanTaLinus. ORD, XXIV. Papilionacece. : 431 
Sp. Ch. P. folus ternatis subrotundis retusis glaberrimis, petalis 
crenatis undulatis. 
A LARGE tree, sending off lofty alternate branches, and 
covered with. rough bark, resembling that of common alder. 
Leaves alternate, on footstalks, in our specimen placed in pairs, 
and divided into three simpie leaves, but according to the Supp. 
plant. the leaves are three together, and each ‘separating into four 
or five alternate pinne: simple leaves roundish or ovate, blunt, 
retuse, or somewhat notched at the apex, entire, veined, above 
smooth, beneath hoary. Flowers yellow, in axillary spikes. 
Stipule none. Bractez none. Calyx rough, cut at the brim 
into five short segments. Corolla papilionaceous; vexillum ob- 
cordate, erect, somewhat reflexed at the sides, dentated, waved, 
yellow, striated with red; alz spreading, edges appearing toothed ; 
carina oblong, a little inflated, short. Filaments ten, diadelphous, 
furnished with white round anthere. Germen on a footstaik, 
oblong, compressed, hairy.” Style curved. Stigma obtuse. Pod 
roundish, compressed, smooth, falcated upwards, lower margin 
keel-shaped, containing a round compressed seed. 
This tree is a native of India, affecting mountainous situations. 
Its characters were first ascertained by Kénig, who sent a‘spe- 
cimen and description of it to the younger Linneus, by whom it 
is published in the Species plantarum. 
The annexed figure is taken from a very perfect specimen in 
the Herbarium of Sir Joseph Banks.* 2 
There is reason to believe, that several red woods, capable of 
sicating this colour to spirituous liquors, are sold as Red 
Saunders; but the true officinal kind appears, on the best authority, 
to be of this tree, which is extremely hard, ofa bright garnet red 
colour, and bears a fine polish. It is only the inner substance of 
the wood that is used as a colouring matter, and the more florid 
* The specimen is accompanied with a piece of the wood, which answers to the 
description here given. ' 
