461 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Santalum. 
the perisperm. Cofyledons two, unequal, linear-lanceolate. Plumula 
minute, semilunate. — Kadicle taper ing, superior. 
Obs. The descriptions and original figures of the following species, 
Sirium myrti ifolium, Corom. Plants, vol. i. t. 2. were taken from the 
plauts which grow wild, on the mountains north of the Rajamundri 
Circar, on the coast of Coromandel, where the trees are but of a small 
size scarcely more than a large shrub, or bush; with lanceolate leaves ; 
andsthe wood of little value. ` It is now nearly twenty years since 
that description, and the drawings were made, and I have reasons to 
think the tree which produces the sandal wood oí Malabar,* aud Ti- 
mor, to be different, and having had an opportunity of cultivating the 
former, viz. that of: the Malabar mountains in the Botanic Garden for 
these thirteen years past, I do not hesitate to say, that the Circar tree 
itis at least a strongly marked variety of the Malabar sort. For that 
| reason I have thought it adviseable to give the foregoing full descrip- 
tion, of the true sandal wood, which 1 hope will tend to clear up the 
botanical history of this celebrated tree, and its associate Sirium 
myrtifolium. "They evidently belong to one genus, to which I have 
thought it necessary to assign a new essential character, and whether 
I consider them to be distinct species of that genus, or varieties. of 
one species, must be of very little consequence... For my own part 
J think it nearer the truth to consider them distinet species. I there- 
NE call the narrow-leaved one Santalum myrtifolium. 
-The nature and history of the-wood, :white and yellow Saunders, 
or Sandal are now too well known to — " A in addition 
from me. | iB 36; j ts 
2/5. myrtifolium, R. 
_ Leaves opposite, lanceolate. 
Sirium myrtifolium, Roxb. Corom. Pl. i- N.« 9. Witla: 
^ native ET. the: Giecara €—Ó( where it is but of a small om: 
» t include however the other: Islands thereabout, because the leaves of our rires 
` gres — well with Rumphiüs's figures above oo ; 
