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SAPAN WOOD (Malay sapang)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 201 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAPAN

WOOD (
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Malay sapang)
  , a soluble red dyewood from a tree belonging to the leguminous genus Caesalpinia, a native of tropical
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Asia and the
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Indian
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Archipelago . The wood is somewhat lighter in colour than Brazil wood and its other allies, but the same tinctorial principle, brazilin, appears to be
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common to all .

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