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in the Shops under this Name, which are difbin- 
guifhed by their Colour into citrine or yellow San- 
ders, white Sanders, and red *. 
1. Sant alum flavum vel citrinum , Off. Sant alum 
pallidum , C. B.'P. Sant alum flavum , Tabern : San- 
talum citrinum , J. B. Citrine or yellow Sanders is 
a ponderous, foiid Wood with a ftraight Grain, or 
parallel Fibres, whence it may be eafiiy cloven into 
even Planks. It is of a reddifh pale or yeliowifn 
Colour, and fomewhat inclining to that of a Ci- 
tron *, of an aromatick bitterifh Tafte, yet filling 
the Mouth with a fweetifli Acrimony ; and a fra- 
grant Smell, fomething like Mufk and Rofes. 
2. Santalum album , Off. Sant alum album , C. B. P. 
Lignum odoratum candidum , Cffalp. White Sanders 
differs from the former in Colour and a fainter 
Smell i otherwife has the fame Subfiance and Tex- 
ture. 
Garcias ab Horto tells us there is fo great a 
Refemblance between the Trees producing the 
citrine and white Sanders, that they can hardly be 
diflinguifhed, except by the Inhabitants perhaps 
who fell them to the Merchants. But the learned 
Botanifl P. Herman afferts that both are produced 
from the fame Tree, the Alburnum or Sap being 
called white Sanders, and the medullary or interior 
Part being the yellow. 
The Name of the Tree is Sarcanda. It is about 
the Bignefs of a Walnut-Tree, and grows in the 
Eaft Indies , particularly in the Kingdom of Siam y 
and the Ifiands of Timor and Solor. 
According to Bontius , they who go to thefe If- 
iands to fell Sanders-Trees, are feized with a par- 
* Red Sanders is now the only Sort referred to in Fre- 
fcription : But to explain the Virtues of this, it is here ne- 
ceifary to give an Account of the citrine and white, my Au- 
siior’s Method of treating them rendering it unavoidable. 
ticular 
