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

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