PTEEOCAEPUS SANTALINUS. (Nat. ord. Leguminosse.) 



-For Gen. Char, see under "Pterocarpus marsupium." 



PTEEOCARPUS SANTALINUS. A small tree, leaves alternate, unequally pinnate 6-8 inches long, leaflets always 3, 

 lower pair alternate or sub-opposite, all broadly ovate to orbicular deeply emarginate or retuse at the apex, sub-cordate or rounded at 

 the base, about 3 inches long by 2| broad, young parts and under surface of the leaves slightly sericeous, panicles terminal or axillary, 

 calyx slightly puberulous, stamens isadelphous (5-5) legume surrounded by a wing (as in the genus) uniform, style lateral. Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. iii. 234. 



This is the famous red sanders tree of commerce ; it differs from the ( Vengay) Pterocarpus marsupium (which it much resembles in 

 flower and fruit) by alvmys having 3 instead of 5-7 leaflets. It was thus described correctly by Dr. Roxburgh, but subsequent authorities have 

 described it erroneously as haviny 5-7 leaflets. It is abundant on the low hills about the Cuddapah and North Arcot forests, and the southern 

 part of the Kurnool district, and I have seen a few trees in the Godavery forests. I have never met with it elsewhere in our Presidency, and it is not 

 I believe found anytohere else in India ; it is known by the native names of Shandum and Chandam. The vjood is of a fine red color and beautifully 

 streaked, very hard and heavy, and takes a fine polish ; it is much used and highly prized by the natives for building purposes and for turnery in 

 Madras and the districts fn which it grows ; it is also largely exported from Madras as a dye wood, and used as ballast ;it is a very small tree, not 

 often found over 3| or 4 feet in girth and about 20 to 25 feet in height, the largest trees reach 4^ feet in yirth, but are then much heart shaken or 

 hollovj. The largest fi ee in our plantations is five years old, and is 18 feet 5 inches high, and 9 inches in girth : — a bandy-load of selected logs will 

 sellfor as much as 200 Rupees, i. e,, twenty logs at 10 Rupees each; the roots and stumps vised Jor dying purposes, sell at 6 to 9 Rupees the 1,000 

 lbs. The cattle during the dry season are much Jed upon the leaves of this tree, and young saplings are often bodily cut down by thousands by 

 the cowherds. 



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