444 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNITA, Santalum, 
of little value. It is now nearly twenty years since that des 
cription, and the drawings were made, and I have reason to” * 
think the tree which produces the sandal wood of Malabar,*> 
and Timor, 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’ he- 
sitate to say, that the Circar tree is at least’ astrongly 
marked variety of the Malabar sort. For that reason I have 
thought it advisable to give the foregoing full description, 
of the true sandal wood, which I hope will tend to clear up 
the botanical history of this celebrated tree, and its associate’ 
Sirtum myrtifolium, They evidently belong to one genus, to 
which 1 have thought it necessary to assign a new essential 
character, and wilebhier’t consider them to-be distinct species 
_ of that genus, or varieties of one species, must be of very little 
piteiidnse! For my own part I think it nearer the'truth to 
consider them distinct species. — 1 therefore out the narrow- 
leaved one Santalum myrtifolium. ' el ee 
The nature and history of the wood, white and yellow: 
Saunders or Sandal, are now too well known to require any 
ae. in addition rent me. ie 
. 
2.8. my yrtif oli. R. 
Leaves opposite, lanceolate, | euteiae 
- Sirtum myrtifolium, Roxb. Corom. pl. i, N. 2. Wi lds 
A native of the Circar mountains, where it i ut ofa nal 
size, and the wood of little or no values © © 0 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, spreading, iene “en 
tire, waved, smooth, shining ; about two inches long, and 
three-fourths of an inch broad, Stipules none. Racemes thyr-_ 
siform, terntinal, compound, small, erect. Flowers small, red- 
— Caly ye ioe a Tube short, a little oo, percep 
WiC Pedigge igs 
o4 inca inmerer the ther Ilands therein, ese he 
