462 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Santalunts 
lary, generally single, short, every were covered with flowers.— Brae- 
tes solitary, small, oval, one-flowered.— Flowers small, sessile, yellows 
— Calyx inferior, one-leaved, gibbous ; mouth four-toothed.—:Corok 
none, except the calyx, or nectary be accounted one.— Nectary fours 
leaved ; leaflets cordate, acute, half the length of the calyx, inserted 
round the base of the germ and embracing it.— Filaments four, i insert- 
ed into the base of the calyx, and rather shorter than it. Anthersy 
ovula within the calyx.— Berry oblong, smooth, red, juicy, size of A 
pea, one-celled.—Seed single, shaped like the berry. 
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SANTALUM. Schreb. Gen. N. 215... 
Calyx semi-supera, campanulate, four-cleft. Corol none. Neeta» 
rial scales four, alternate with the stamina. Germ one-celled, ones 
seeded, at'achment inferior. Berry one-seeded. Embryo inverse,’ 
. and furnished with a perisperm. (d JH cen: 
1. S. album, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 691. id 
Leaves oblong. - og 
Sandalum album, Rumph. Amb. ii. 42. t. 11, 
Chandana, Asiatick Researches, vol. iv. p. 258. 
Santalum verum, Linn. Mat, Med. 102. . 
“Sans. SURG, Gundhasaru, PEDE Muss Haat Bhw 
drushree, "Wu Chunduna. 
Beng. Chundun. aH 
Pits. Sundul-sufed. iog! 
Sandal-wood, Buchanan’s i i. 186, and 202, ii. . 1,195 
and 536. ni. 192. — 
A native of the mountainous parts of the Coast of Malabar.. That 
of ‘Timor, and the neighbouring Islands i is most. probably the same 
species. In the Botanic Garden near Calcutta, the trees reared from. 
seeds brought from the former country, thrive luxuriantly,. and pro- 
duce. flowers and ripe seed nearly the whole year round. 
Trunk in wees of twelve years growth in the Botanic Garden, ‘only : 
a few feet high, when they divide nin branches ; and there from two ` 
