442 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Santalums. 
SANTALUM. Schreb. gen. LX. 215. 
Calyx semi-supera, campanulate, four-cleft. Corol_none.. 
Nectarial scales four, alternate with the stamina, Germ one- 
celled, one-seeded, attachment inferior, Berry one-seeded, | 
Tanhes} inverse, and furnished with a perisperm, .. 
1.8. ‘alison! Linn, sp. Ai ed. Wiild, i. 691. , 
. Leaves oblong. 
‘Sandalum album, Rumph. Amb. ii. 42. t. 11. 
Chandana. Asiatic Researches, vol, iv. p. 253. 
Santalum verum. Linn. Mat. Med. 102. 7 
Sans. Gundhasaru, ns acauecahin Chunduna. re 
Beng. Chundan. = Lets 
Pers. Sundul-sufed. 
Sandal-wood, Buchanan’s Fommnaysi i. 186, and 202. ii. 117, 
132, and 536. ii. 192. i= 
A native of the mountainous sibs of eee im ee Malabar, 
That of Timor, and the neighbouring Islands i is most. proba- 
bly the same species. In the Botanic garden near Calcutta, | 
the trees reared from seeds brought from the former country, _ 
thrive luxuriantly, and produce flowers and ripe seed nearly 
the whole year round... ; 
- Trunk in trees of twelve years’ 5 caamtha in de alias gare 
den, only a few. feet high, when. they divide into branches; ; 
and there from two and a half to three, feet i in cireumfer CLe 
Bark. brownish, and. scabrous, with longitudinal 4 
Branches numerous, dividing much, spreadin and rising in 
every direction, forming nearly a spherical head, . Young 
shoots round and smooth; extreme. height . of our la est. 
twelve or thirteen years old trees, about twenty-five. feet. 
Leaves Se casiai pai ann rey ay obtuse, 7s 
