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the leaf. The specific name was devised by some resemblance of the 

 leaves to those of sandalwood. The umbels occur singly at shoulders 

 of leaves, but later lateral containing three to five, or rarely six to 

 eight, flowers ; stalks of umbels scarcely or somewhat angular, the stalk- 

 lets of buds and flowers extremely short or almost none; tube of flower 



Fig. 43. — The Sandal Gum (Eiu-ihiptus snufalifolin. V. v. ^I.) 



cu]) ucai'ly half round ;iii<l sonicwliat shorter than the luilf (>gg-sh:iiM'd 

 conical U|)|)er i)iirt ol' ilic Imd; fruits d('i)n'ss('d globular, throe to four, 

 occasionally five, celled. The Sandal (iuin resembles the lirown Stringy- 

 bark in the almost total iibsence of flower stalklets, but it do<'s not attain 

 the size of a lai'ge tree; the lenves are sni;iller, more rigid, of a lighter 



