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of considerable size, often attaining the height of fifty feet. 

 The stem is the part used ; it is cut into logs about four 

 feet in length, and these, after the removal of the bark and 

 outer wood, are split and trimmed square for exportation ; 

 they are of a rich deep red colour. It yields a brilliant red 

 dye, which is rendered much deeper by sulphate of iron. 

 The red of the English Bandana handkerchiefs is produced 

 by Cam-wood. About 1100 tons are annually imported. 



Bar- wood is the produce of the same tree, and possesses 

 no sensible difference either in quality or appearance ; it also 

 comes from the coast of Africa. 



Saunders or Red Sandal. Pterocarpus Santalimts. 

 (Nat. Ord. Leguminoste.) 



This dye-wood is the produce of a large tree growing to 

 the height of sixty or seventy feet, on the mountains and 

 in other parts of India. It is usually imported in small 

 billets two or three feet in length, of a fine deep red colour ; 

 the concentric circles of the transverse section being divided 

 by dark, almost black lines. With different mordants it 

 yields brownish-red, scarlet-red, deep crimson, and yellowish- 

 red. These colours however are not very permanent. The 

 imports amount to about 350 tons per annum. Another 

 dye-wood, also called Red Sandal- wood, is produced by 



