4(:. i tetkandiua MONCGYNiA. Santolum, 



the pt rlsperm. Cotijhdous tsvo, uneqM:il, linear-lanceolate. Plumula 

 minute, seniilunate. Radicle tapering, superior. 



Of)s. The descriptions and original figures of the following species, 

 Suium myvtifoliam, Corom. Plants, vol. i. t. 2. were taken from the 

 plants which grow wild, on the mountains north of the Uajanumdr$ 

 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 ; 

 and the wood of little value. It is now nearly twenty years since 

 that description, and the drawings were made, and [ have reasons to 

 think the tree which produces the sandal wood of Malabar/^= and li- 

 mor, to be different, and having had an opportunity of ctiUivatnig the 

 former, viz. that of the Malabar mountains in the Botanic Garden lor 

 these thirteen years past, I do not hesitate to say, that the Circar tree 

 it is at least a strongly marked variety of the Malabar sort. For that 

 reason 1 have thought it advi<5eable to give the foregoing full descrip- 

 tion, of the true saiulal wood, which I hope will tend to clear up the 

 botanical history of this celebrated tree, and its associate Siiiuiii 

 myrtiJoUum. They evii<iently 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 

 1 think it nearer the truth to consider them distinct species, I there- 

 iore call the narrow-leaved one Santalum myrtifoliiim. 



The nature and history of the wood, white and yellow Saunders, 

 or Sandal are nuw too well known to require any thing in addition 

 from me. 



2. S. mi/rli folium, R. 

 Leaves opposite, lanceolate. 



Siriuni mi/rti folium, Roxb. Corom. PL i. N. 2. fVilld. 

 A native of the Circar moimtains, wiiere it is but of a small size, 

 and the wood of little or no value. 



* I inclnrie however the other Islands thereabout, because theleaves of our trca 

 gi as parfiGuhrly wall vvilh Iluuij^'iiui's iij;arei alii>v« q latii- 



