^84 A COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND BOOK 
regno Ansiko, quae media est Africse regio, binas invenire 
magna copia Saiidali species, 
RuBRUM nempe, ibi Tawile, et 
Album Zikongo vocatum ;" 
but there is not the smallest reason to suppose, that either 
of these is the same with the Santalwn ritbrum.^ or *S. al- 
hum of Asia. 
CAP. XVII. 
SaNDALUM RUBRUM, p. 47, 
Rumphius commences this chapter by exposing the er- 
ror of those, who imagined the trees producing red sandal 
to be similar to those which produced the zvhite or yellozv. 
He then mentions, that so many different woods were 
brought to him as red sandal, and these accompanied by 
accounts so contradictory, that, having never been near the 
places where they grow, he could come to no certain con- 
clusions ; only he warns us to reject the opinion, that all 
such red w^oods as are produced in India, are of one kind. 
After rejecting the Lingoo {Pterocarpus Indicus), and the 
Sapan (CcBsalpinia sapan), he mentions three kinds. 
SaNDALUM RUBRUM USUALE, p. 48. 
There can be little doubt, from circumstances here men- 
tioned, as well as from the native names procured by Dr 
Hoxburgh, that the Ligjium Caliatoui^ense, or Rdkta 
Tsjandana (red sandal) of the Sanscrita language, which 
Herbertus de Jager transmitted to Rumphius as the San- 
talum ruhrum usuale, is the Pterocarpus Santalinus 
(Willd. Sp. PI. iii. 906; Hort. Kew. iv. 249; Hort. Beng. 
5S) ; and I suspect the Pterocarpm Draco a, which M. 
