SANDERS-WOOD. Red Sanders-wood. Stnalun, . . . . ARAB. Ruttunjee, Sund-ul-Ahmir, . „ Sandal° roso, . . .
Honnay, . . . . CAN. Sundul-surkh, . PERS. Sandel-hout, . . DAN. Buckurn, . . . „ Lal-chundun, . DUK. Rakta-chandana, . EANSK. Red wood, . . . ENG. I Ranjana, . . . „ Ruby wood, . . „ Sigapoo shandanum, 'PAM.
santa1e rouge, . . Ku-chandanum, . TEL. Sandal-holz, . . GER. I The sanders-wood or red sanders-wood of com merce is the product of a large useful timber tree, the Pterocarpus Santalinus, found in Malabar, Mysore, Ceylon, near Madras, in the Pulicat and Tripaty Hills, Malay Peninsula, and Timor. The wood is extremely hard, of a fine grain, and a bright garnet-red colour, which brightens on ex posure to the air.. It is employed to dye lasting reddish - brown colours, the concentric circles being divided by dark lines. It communicates a deep-red to alcohol, but gives no tinge to cold water. It is principally shipped to England front
Calcutta in logs from 2 to 10 inches diameter, generally without sap, and sometimes in roots and split pieces ; it is very hard and heavy ; it is very much used as a red dye-wood, and often for turn ing. The logs are often notched at both ends, or cut with a. hole as for a rope, and much worn externally from being dmgged along the ground ; other woods, as also indeed ivory tusks, are some times thus perforated for tho like purpose. With different mordants, it yields various shades of red ; these are said to be little permanent. This wood is largely exported from, but little used in, Madras. The Madras exports for 1854 tunounted to 47,431 cwt., value 59,570 rupees.—M. E. J. R.; Tredgold.