WOODS. 



Ghfits from Kandeisli to Travancore. The Dane! oily forest south of Dhar- 

 war is the largest. TEAK is the most useful of all the woods of Southern 

 Asia. 



aliiSSima. Linn. Tall Chaste-tree. 



Linn. Syst. Didynamia Angiospmnia. 



Vernacular. 



Remarks. Found along the rivers of the Southern Concan. It produces 

 a good cabinet-wood, hut little used. The CAMPHOR-WOOD of China is 

 produced by Laurus camphora and the GREENHEART of Demerara, by 

 Nectandra rodicvi, N. O. 178. The latter is the Bibiru tree. 



N. O. 190. SANTALACE/E. SANDALWORTS. 

 Santaium album. Linn. True Sandahvood. 



Linn. Syst. Tetrandria Monogynia. 

 SANDALWOOD. SUNDEL. 



Vernacular. Chandana, Gandhasara, Malayaja, Bhadrasri, Sans. 

 Chanduna, Ben^. Hind. Malaya. Ghundasaru, Sans. Chundoie, 

 Hind. Sundel, Dec. Tsjandana-marum, Mai. Gandaya, Can. 

 Sandanum, Tarn. Tel. Rat-hihiri, Cey. Sundul-abiyaz, Arab. 

 Sundul-safeid, Fers. 



Habitat. The mountains of the Indian Peninsula, and the Eastern 

 Archipelago. 



llvnarks. Philologists by an infinity of transpositions make this the 

 Alyuinmim or Almuyyim wood, brought by Hiram's navy from Ophir. 

 Thus Max Muller, in his popular account of the identification of Malabar 

 with the Ophir of the ancients, observes that the names for apes, peacocks, 

 wary, and alyum-trees, are foreign words in Hebrew, as tobacco and yutta 

 perclia are in English ; and that a/yum is clearly the Sanscrit valguka, one 

 of the numerous names of Sandalwood in Malabar, where only it is found 

 indigenous. This may be true. But Sandalwood is indigenous to the 

 Eastern Archipelago, and that from Malaya is held in the best esteem 

 throughout India. I have recently seen it argued that Malabar must be 

 Ophir, because, in addition to Lassen's proof, M. Le Soauf would find gold 

 there ; but the largest of les ceufs d'or of the Gold Company's protracted 

 gestation sent me is unmitigated pyrites, and another mica. It is undoubt- 

 edly one Sundul of Avicenna. The variety S. album, /3 myrtifolium y 

 De C. is found in the Circars, and its wood is less precious. The San- 

 dalwood forests of Western India extend uninterruptedly from a little to 

 the South of the Teak forest of Dandelly and Sunda to the Northern 

 slopes at the Nilgheris, lying the whole way above the Ghats. S. 

 freycinetianum, Gaud, yields the SANDALWOOD of the Sandwich isles. 

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