( 3235 y ze 
SANTALUM ALBUM. SANDAL Woon. 
Class and Order. 
TETRANDRIA Monoeynta. 
( Nat. Ord.— Sanraracez. ) 
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Generic Character. - 
Perianthium 4-fidum, tubo ventricoso, deciduum. Glan- 
dule 4, fauci inserte, staminibus alternantes. Stigma 3—4- 
lobum. Drupa baccata, apice marginata.— / bores %. 
frutices glabri. Folia opposita, plana, latiuscula. Flores 
terni in pedunculis opposite ramosis : Onenter? caducis. Br. 
_ Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Sanrarom * album; foliis ovato-lanceolatis venosis, 1 racemis 
paniculatis. 
Sinraite album. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 497. Roxb. Fl. Indie. 
v. 1. p. 462. 
SANDALUM “ebuit Rumph. Amboyn, v. 2. p. a2: t. 11. 
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Descr. Trunk twenty to thirty feet high, hed low 
down, two and a half to three feet in circumference, Bark 
brownish, scabrous, longitudinally cleft. Branches numer- 
ous, much divided, spreading, , and rising in every direction, 
forming nearly a spherical | head : the young shoots round 
and smooth. " Leaves opposi 
entire, glaucous below, from one and a half to three inches 
long. Petioles smooth. Thyrsi of flowers axillary and 
terminal. Pedicels opposite, the lower pair of each thyrsus 
generally three-flowered. Flowers numerous, small, at first 
straw-coloured, changing to a deep, te ied purple, 
scentless, as are all the external parts of the Srowing plant, 
. 2a even 
* From the Arabic Ssandal ; or from the Persian Sundul sufed. 
; petioled, oblong, smooth, ~ 
