444 TETRANDRIA MONOGVNIA. Sanldllim. 



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 a strongly 

 marked variety of the Malabar sort. For that reason I have 

 thought it advisable to give the foregoing full description, 

 of the true sandal icood, which 1 hope will tend to clear up 

 the botanical history of this celebrated tree, and its associate 

 Sirium triyrtifolium. 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 I think it nearer the truth to 

 consider them distinct species. 1 therefore call the narrow- 

 leaved one Santrthim myrtifolium. 



The nature and history of the wood, white and yellow 

 Sctunders or Sandal, are now too well known to require any 

 thing in addition from me. 



2. S. myrtifolium. R. 



Leaves opposite, lanceolate. 



Sirium myrtifolium. Roxb. Corom. pi. i. JV*. 2. Willd. 



A native of the Circar mountains, where it is but of a small 

 size, and the wood of little or no value. 



Leaves opposite, short-petioled, spreading, lanceolate, en- 

 tire, waved, smooth, shining; about two inches long, and 

 three-fourths of an inch broad. Stipules none. Racemes thyr- 

 siform, terminal, compound, small, erect. JFlowers small, red- 

 dish. Valyx superior. Tube short, a little gibbous. Border 



* I include however the other Islands thereabout, because the 

 leaves of our tree agree particularly well with Rumphius's figures 

 above quoted. 



