432 ORD. XXIV. Papilionacee. pPrrROcARPUS SANTALINUS, 
red is most esteemed. On being cut it is said to manifest a 
' fragrant odour, which is more especially perceptible in old trees, 
According to Lewis, this wood “ is of a dull red almost blackish 
colour on the outside, and a deep brighter red within; its fibres 
are now and then curled, as in knots. It has no manifest smell, 
and little or no taste: even of extracts made from it with waiter, 
or with spirit, the taste is inconsiderable. To watery liquors it 
communicates only a yellowish tinge, but to rectified spirit a fine 
deep red: a small quantity of an’extract, made with this men- 
struum, tinges a large one of fresh spirit of the same elegant 
colour; though it does not, like most other resinous bodies, dis- 
solve in expressed oils: of distilled oils, there are some, as that 
of lavender, which receive a red tincture from the wood itself, 
and from its resinous extract, but the greater number does not.’” 
Red Saunders has been esteemed asa medicine; but its fees use 
attaches to its colouring property. 
The j Juice of this tree, like that of some others, affords a species 
of sanguis draconis. 
» M. M. 579, 
A RR A I a RR 
‘The medicinal plants of this order, which remain unnoticed, are 
Systematic Namgs.. OrricinaL. ENGuisu. 
Lupinus albus Lupinus White Lupine 
Genista canariensis Rhodium Lignum Rhodium Wood 
Ononis arvensis Ononis Rest-Harrow 
Vicia Faba Faba Garden-bean 
Ervum Lens Lentes Lentil, or flat Tare 
Ervuam Ervilia Ervum Officinal Tare 
Cicer arietinum Cicer Chick Pea 
Galega officinalis Galega Goat’s-rue 
Trifolium melilotus off. Melilotus Melilot Trefo 
ni 5, eerie —— 
