442 1 I IRANDIUA MONOGWNIA. Sdntlllum. 



S ANT J LI M. Schrcb. gen. K. 215. 

 Calyx semi-supera, catnpanulate, four-cleft. Carol none. 

 Nectarial scales lour, alternate with the stamina. Germ one- 

 Celled, one-seeded, attachment inferior. Berry one-seeded. 

 Embryo inverse, and furnished with a perisperm. 



I. S. album. Unn.sp.pl. ed. W'ilUI. i. C91. 



Leaves oblong*. 



Sandalum album. Humph. Amb. ii. 42. t. 11. 



Chandana. Asiatic Researches, vol. iv. p. 2)3. 



Santalum verum. Linn. Mat. Med. 102. 



Sans. Gundhosaru, Multryuju; Bhudn/shree, Chunduiia. 



Hen;/. Chiiliduu. 



Pers. Sundul-sufed. 



Sandal-wood. Buchanan's Journey, i. ISC, and 202. ii. 117, 

 I32jand68& iii. 192. 



A native of the mountainous parts of the coast of Malabar. 

 That of Timor, and the neighbouring; Islands is most proba- 

 bly the same speciesr 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' growth in the Botanic gar- 

 den, only a few feet high, when they divide into branches; 

 and there from two and a half to three feet in circumference. 

 Bark brownish, and scabrous, with longitudinal fissures. 

 Branches numerous, dividing much, spreading, and rising in 

 every direction, forming nearly a spherical head. Young 

 shoots round and smooth; extreme height of our largest 

 twelve or thirteen years old trees, about twenty-five feet. 

 Leaves opposite, pelioled, oblong, generally obtuse, smooth, 

 entire, glaucous underneath; length : from one and a half to 

 I luce inches. Petioles scarcely one-fourth the length of the 

 leaves, smooth. Stipules none. Thyrsi axillary and termi- 

 nal, much shorter than the leaves. Pedicels opposite, the 



