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SAGCHAEUM OFFICINARUM. Graminece.Ql all the varieties 

 of sugar-cane cultivated, the Otaheite seems now to have the 

 preference, although I have seen in Berar cane looking as fine. 

 The cane if it grows to seed is considered almost useless for 

 sugar-making. A description of the mode of culture I consider 

 unnecessary. 



SAGO PALM. Vide Phoenix Farinifera. 



SAGUERUS RUMPHII. Palmce. This tree is scarce, and only 

 found in some of the gardens in Bombay, where it has been 

 introduced from the Sumatra Islands. It is only grown as an 

 exotic, and is a very beautiful species of palm, from its pinnate 

 leaves. It is propagated by suckers from the roots of the old 

 trees. 



SAMADERA INDICA. Simarubacece. A tree common throughout 

 the Southern Concan. 



SANTALTJM ALBUM. Santalacece. NAT. CHUNDUNA OR GHUN- 

 DASARU. Sandal-wood. This tree grows both in gardens and 

 the jungles. It bears a small black-berry, which if planted 

 grows without any trouble. The wood is generally brought for 

 sale in small logs seldom exceeding eighteen inches in length. 

 It is unnecessary to describe its use. 



SAPIUM SEBIFERUM. Euphorbiacece. TALLOW TREE. This tree 

 is not very common, and is only to be met with in a few gardens 

 It is an ornamental tree, and bears flowers and fruit for a great 

 part of the year together. The fruit is of a pear-shape, yellow 

 and red, which when ripe opens and displays two or three black 

 seeds enveloped partially with a fatty-looking substance. This 

 it is from which the Chinese extract the tallow and make into 

 candles. 



SAPiNDuslNDicus. Sapindacece. NAT. HOOROOA. A small tree, 

 flowers irregularly, fruit round and hard : three celled with a 

 seed in each and which are used by the Natives for intoxicating 

 fish, the taste of the fruit is nauseous and the juice of the tree 

 is considered poisonous. 



SAPINDUS FRUTICOSUS, Introduced from the Moluccas, flow- 

 ers in racemes. 



