324 ODOROGRAPHIA. 
The “ West Australian” santal is derived from Fusanus spicatus, 
R. Br. (8. spicatum, D.C., and S. Cignorum, Miq.), from Swan River. 
A specimen of a “ West Australian” santal wood was exhibited in 
Paris in 1878, and was said to be derived from S. latifolium. The 
Australian santal woods arriving in England from Adelaide and 
Freemantle are less fragrant than the Indian, and are not much 
valued in Europe; their principal market is Smgapore. The other 
Australian santal woods are Fusanus persicarius, F. Muel., in 
West Australia; S. /anceolatum, R. Br., in North Australia, New 
South Wales, and Queensland; and Fusanus acuminatus of South 
Austrailia. 
The Santalum Preissii of the interior of South Australia yields 
a wood which is said to be quite different from that of S. Cignorum, 
Miq. (Fusanus spicatus, R. Br.), of West Australia. The tree 
is locally called Quandong. 'The wood is dark brown in colour, 
with unusually close tenacious texture, and is extraordinarily 
hard and heavy. Messrs. Schimmel state* that 75 kilos of the 
wood directly imported by them from South Australia yielded 
the comparatively large quantity of 3 kilos 800 grams of essen- 
tial oil, which is quite equal to 5 per cent., and is thus one of 
tke richest santal woods for oil. In many respects this oil is 
characteristic and interesting. It is viscid, of a cherry-red 
colour, and heavier than water; at 15° C. its sp. gr. being 1°022. 
It possesses the property of solidifying at medium temperatures, 
and separating a crystalline body which forms in colourless prisms 
melting at 104°-105°, so that in the process of distillation the 
cooling must be effected very carefully, otherwise the condensing 
tubes become blocked. This phenomenon occurs especially in 
the medium fractions of the oil. When in raspings the wood has 
an agreeable balsamic odour, with a suggestion of rose oil that 
unfortunately is not perceptible in the normal oil. By separating 
the oil into a number of fractions by steam distillation, the Rose 
odour could be recognized distinctly in some of the middle 
fractions. 
African santal-wood oil is another novelty recently acquired by 
the same firm. A parcel of 17,000 kilos was received by them 
from Tamatave (Madagascar). The wood is brownish red in 
colour, and uncommonly hard and close. Distilled with water 
* Bericht, April 1891, p. 63. 
