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Show WHITE SAUNDERS. 93 of the same tree is white, less firm, and scarcely with any fragrancy. It is only the yellowpart that is in use; and the larger and older the tree the more valuable its wood, which possesses the highest fragrance, for whichit is valued. MEDICAL VIRTUES. Lewis, speaking of this wood, says, that it has a bitterish aromatic taste, accompanied with an agreeable kind of pungency. Distilled with water it yields a fragrant essential oil, which thickens in the cold into the consistence of a balsam, approaching in smell to ambergris, or a mixture of ambergris and roses : the remaining decoction, inspissated to the consistence of an extract, is bitterish and slightly pungent. Rectified spirits ex. tract, by digestion, considerably more than water: the colour of the tincture is arich yellow, The spirit, distilled off, is lightly 009 LTTTe VASH ‘“s WHITE SAUNDERS. SANTALUM ALBUM. ae ~ -- which falls under another class and order; nor has the White Saunders a place in cither the London or Edinburgh Pharmaco.peias, “ke AY impregnated with the fine flavour of the wood: the remaining brown extract has a weak smell, and a moderate balsamic pungency. This wood, therefore, though at present among us disregarded, promises to have a goodclaim to corroborant virtues, ascribed to it by Hoffmann andothers. It has no affinity with the Santalum rubrum, Red Saunders, Class 1V. Tetrandria, Order I. Monogynia. Essent. Gen. Cuar. Calyx four-toothed : Corolla four-p etalled ; with the petals stowing on the calyx, besides four glands: Berry inferi § S$: Berry inferior. one-seeded. = , i a HISTORY. Tis valuable tree is a nativ e of many parts of India. Its ro is the White and Yellow Sanders or Sandal wood, Santai um albu t m e et flavum of the he Mate Materia ri Mediica; both bein i g the P € of the sametree, and not, as Garcias says, of different trees. Most trees es in i India i , when yhen large 1¢ and old, become coloured towards the centre: that part is always much more hard and ; dura ble; than the exte rior uncoloured part. Thus with the sandal ree 5 le centre, ; w 1en th e 3 tree ‘ee becom C es 2 large, ¢ acquiires a yellow 7] Pn ope . colour,oe great fragr ance, and harduess ; whilst the exter ior pa part |