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Sand-binding plants. See Strand plants. 
Sandia (Spanish). See Citrud/us citrullus under Gardens. 
Sandoricum indicum. Santor. WILD MANGOSTEEN. 
Family Meliaceae. 
Loca, NAMEs.—Santol (Guam, Philippines, Singapore); Santor (Malayan); Wild 
mangosteen (India); Thitto (Burma). 
An evergreen tree growing in the Philippines, the Malay Archipelago, and the East 
Indies. The young shoots and panicles are tawny-velvety; leaves trifoliolate; leaflets 
tawny-pubescent along veins on lower surface, elliptic, or ovate-orbicular, shortly 
acuminate or apiculate, base unequally obtuse; flowers clustered, subsessile in ample, 
much-branched axillary panicles, small, yellowish, sweet-scented; calyx 5-toothed, 
short, pubescent; petals 5, linear; stamens 10, combined into a tube; stigma divided 
into 5 lobes; fruit about the size of an orange, containing 5 one-seeded nuts. 
The fruit has a fleshy acid pulp. It may be eaten raw and makes very good dulces, 
but has a peculiar odor. In Manila it is sold on the streets and served at hotel 
tables. The root, bruised with vinegar and water, is said to be a good remedy in 
diarrhea and dysentery.” 
This tree has been introduced into Guam from the Philippines, but has not yet 
become well established. A fine tree is growing on the ranch of Don José de Leon 
Guerrero, in the locality called Lalo. It isa native of Burma and has spread through 
southern India, the Philippines, and many other tropical countries. The wood when 
burned gives forth an aromatic odor, It is durable and is suitable for the construc- 
tion of houses and boats. The heartwood is red and close-grained, and takes a fine 
polish. 
REFERENCES: 
Sandoricum indicum Cav. Diss. '7: 359. t. 202, 203. 1789. 
San Francisco ((iuam, Philippines). 
Name applied to several ornamental foliage plants. See Phyllaurea variegata and 
Graptophylhum pictum. 
Sansevieria zeylanica. Same as Cordyline hyacinthoides. 
Santa Helena (Spanish). See Leucaena glauca, 
Santa Maria, Palo de (Spanish). See Calophylium inophyllin. 
Santa Maria, Yerba de (Spanish, Guam, Philippines). See Artemisia vulgaris, 
Santa Rosa, hierba de (Mexico). See ctntigonon leptopus. 
Santol ((iuam, Philippines, Singapore). See Sandoricum indicum, 
Santor (Malayan). See Sandoricuim indicum. 
Sapindaceae. SOAPBERRY FAMILY. 
The only representatives of this family in Guam known to me are the introduced 
balloon vine (Cardiospermum halicacabum) and Dodonaea viscosa, a plant widely 
spread in the Tropics. 
Sapodilla or Sapodilla plum. See Sapota zapotilla, 
Saponaceous plants. See Detergeits. 
Sapota zapotilla. SAPODILLA. 
Family Sapotaceae. 
Local NAMEs.—Chico (Guam); Chico, Zapote chico, Zapotillo chico (Philip- 
pines); Nispero (Spanish West Indies); Nis-berry, Nees-berry, Nase-berry 
(British West Indies); Brei-apfel (German); Sapotille (French). 
A handsome evergreen tree with milky juice bearing a fruit shaped like an apple, 
cultivated extensively in the Tropics. Leaves thick and glossy, clustered at the 
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