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BICORNES. 
SANTALUM ALBUM. WHITE or YELLOW SAUNDERS. 
SYNONYMA. Santalum citrinum. Pharm. Edinb. Park. 
Theat. 1604. Raii Hif. 1804. Santalum pallidum. Bauh. Pin. 
392. Ger. Emac. 1586. Sandalum. Rumph. Herb. Amb. Tom. 
2, p. 42st. 11.) Breyn. Icon. et Defiript. p. 19. te 5. fe 1- 
Tetrandria Monogynia, Schr. Gen, Plant. 215, 
Gen. Cb. Cor, fabinfundibulif. 4-fida faminifera: glandulis 4, 
ftaminibus alternantibus. Drupa rotunda monofperma. Woodv. 
_ A LARGE tree, covered with reddifh brown bark. - Leaves 
ovate, fomewhat~ lanceolate, entire, pointed, fmooth, oppofite, on 
footftalks. Flowers numerous, purple, terminating the younger 
branches in compound fpikes, Calyx fmall, four-toothed, deciduous. 
Corolla monopetalous, confifting of a fhort ovate tube, divided at 
the limb into four fharp teeth. Filaments four, fhort, hairy, placed 
_ at the mouth of the tube, and furnifhed with large anthere: between 
each filament ftands a glandular neétarium, crenated at the top. Ger- 
men ovate. Style tapering, of the length of the tube of the corolla. 
Stigma four-parted. Fruit drupaceous, round, containing a hard 
feed or ftone. 
It is a native of the Eaft Indies, efpecially of the Ifland of Timor; 
and has not yet been cultivated in ‘this country. The plate of it 
ie apa is taken from a fpecimen in the pofleffion of Sir Jofeph 
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