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A. large shrub, sometimes scandent. Bark blackish-grey, 
rough, vertically fissured. Wood brownish-white, in alternate 
bands of varying width of woody and bast texture and with 
a dark-red, hard centre (Gambled “ A rigid, wiry, scrambling 
shrub” says Brandis, *' with soft, silvery white wood, armed 
with stout divaricating branchlets, ending in pungent spines.” 
Talbot thus describes the plant : — “ A stiff, erect, glabrous shrub, 
with horizontal branches, spine-tipped at the e-nds.” Entirely 
glabrous. Leaves fascicled on the node of branches ; leaflets 
7-11, often nearly opposite, ovate-oblong, i-jin. long. Flowers 
yellowish-white, in congested, sessile, axillary panicles; pedicels 
short. Calyx x^in. long, minutely downy, teeth short, obtuse. 
Corolla twice as long as the Calyx. Stamens 10in., a single 
sheath, sometimes in 2 separate sheaths of 5 each. Pod lin. 
long, reniform, coriaceous, flat, 1-seeded, brown, glabrous. 
Use-. — The roots powdered absorb alcohol, and a spoonful 
of the powder in a tumblerful of water is said to be sufficient to 
destroy, in less than half an hour, the effects of alcohol, even in 
cases bordering on delirium tremens (Kurz). 
405. Pteroearpus santalinus, Linn. Fil. h.f.b.i., 
ii. 239, Roxb. 536. 
Sans. : — Raktachandana. 
V 'em : — Ragat-chandan, lalchandan, undutn (H.) ; Rakta- 
chandan (B ) ; Shenshandannura, segappo-shandanum (Jam.); 
Erragandhapuchekka, kuchandanum (Tel.) ; Kempu-gandha 
(Kan.); Ooruttah chundanum (Mai.); Lal-chundan (Dec.); 
Raktachaudan, ratanjli (Bomb.). 
Habitat : — South India, chiefly Cuddapah, North Arcot and 
the southern portion of the Karnool District 
A smooth tree, attaining 25ft. Bark blackish-brown, deeply 
cleft, both vertically and horizontally into rectangular plates. 
Wood extremely hard. Sap wood white, heartwood dark, 
claret-red to almost black, but always with a red tinge, orange- 
red when fresh cut,- the shavings giving an orange-red colour. 
Branches obscurely grey-downy. Leaflets 3, rarely 4 or 5, 
broad-elliptic, obtuse, l^Sin. long, underside pale and clothed 
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