‘986 ORD. XVII. Bicornes. SANTALUM ALBUM, 
anther: between each filament stands a glandular nectarium, cre- 
nated at the top. Germen ovate. Style tapering, of the length of 
the tube of the corolla: Stigma four-parted. Fruit drupaceous, 
round, containing a hard seed or stone. 
It is a native of the East Indies, especially in the Island of Timor, 
and has not yet been cultivated in this’country. The plate of it 
here prefixed is taken from a specimen in the possession of Sir 
Joseph Banks. 
From the structure of the flower of the Santalum, as here de- 
lineated, and from the description of it which is given above, it does 
not appear to have been sufficiently understood by any of the bo- 
tanists, who have hitherto described it; so that we have been under 
the necessity of assigning to this genus a new essential character. * 
The four glands, placed within the corolla, were probably mis- 
taken for stamina, which induced Linnzeus at first to class the San- 
talum among the octandria- 
In the last edition of the Systema Vegetabilium this error is cor- 
rected, and had nothing more been done, the character would have 
remained tolerably complete; but unfortunately Cor. 1-petala was 
changed to 4-petala; and thus a new error was introduced, =— 
we hope will in future be adjusted. 
White Saunders wood is of a pale white, often with a yellowish 
tinge; and being destitute of taste or odour, it is superseded by 
the Santalum trinum, which is of a brownish yellow colour, of a 
bitterish aromatic taste, and of a pleasant smell, approaching to 
that of the rose. 
Both kinds are brought from the East Indies in billets, consist- 
ing of large thick pieces, which, according to Rumphius, are some- 
times taken from the same, and sometimes from different trees. 
For though the white and the yellow Saunders are the wood of the 
same species of tree, yet the latter, which forms the central part 
of the tree, is not always to be found in sufficient quantity to re- 
* Respecting the calyx we are unable to speak decidedly from our own observation. 
