DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 369 



Sand-binding 1 plants. See Strand plants. 

 Sandia (Spanish). See Citrullus citrullus under Gardens. 



Sandoricum indicum. SANTOR. WILD MANGOSTEEN. 



Family Meliaceae. 



LOCAL NAMES. Santol (Guam, Philippines, Singapore); Santor (Malayan); Wild 

 mangosteen (India); Thitto (Burma). 



An evergreen tree growing in the Philippines, the Malay Archipelago, and the East 

 Indies. The young shoots and panicles are tawny-velvety ; leaves trifoliolate; leaflets 

 tawny-pubescent along veins on lower surface, elliptic, or ovate-orbicular, shortly 

 acuminate or apiculate, base unequally obtuse; flowers clustered, subsessile in ample, 

 much-branched axillary panicles, small, yellowish, sweet-scented; calyx 5-toothed, 

 short, pubescent; petals 5, linear; stamens 10, combined into a tube; stigma divided 

 into 5 lobes; fruit about the size of an orange, containing 5 one-seeded nuts. 



The fruit has a fleshy acid pulp. It may be eaten raw and makes very good dulces, 

 but has a peculiar odor. In Manila it is sold on the streets and served at hotel 

 tables. The root, bruised with vinegar and water, is said to be a good remedy in 

 diarrhea and dysentery. 



This tree has been introduced into Guam from the Philippines, but has not yet 

 become well established. A fine tree is growing on the ranch of Don Jose* de Leon 

 Guerrero, in the locality called Lalo. It is a native of Burma and has spread through 

 southern India, the Philippines, and many other tropical countries. The wood when 

 burned gives forth an aromatic odor. It is durable and is suitable for the construc- 

 tion of houses and boats. The heartwood is red and close-grained, and takes a fine 

 polish. 



REFERENCES: 



Sandoricum indicum Cav. Diss. 7: 359. t. 202, 203. 1789. 

 San Francisco (Guam, Philippines). 



Name applied to several ornamental foliage plants. See Phyllaurea variegata and 

 Graptophyllum pictum. 



Sansevieria zeylanica. Same as Cordyline hyacinthoides. 

 Santa Helena (Spanish). See Leucaena glauca. 

 Santa Maria, Palo de (Spanish). See Calophyllum inophyllum. 

 Santa Maria, Yerba de (Spanish, Guam, Philippines). See Artemisia vulgaris. 

 Santa Rosa, hierba de (Mexico). See Antigonon leptopus. 

 Santol (Guam, Philippines, Singapore). See Sandoricum indicum. 

 Santor (Malayan) . See Sandoricum indicum. 

 Sapindaceae. SOAPBERRY FAMILY. 



The only representatives of this family in Guam known to me are the introduced 

 balloon vine (Cardiospermum halicacabum) and Dodonaea viscosa, a plant widely 

 spread in the Tropics. 



Sapodilla or Sapodilla plum. See Sapota zapotilla. 

 Saponaceous plants. See Detergents. 



Sapota zapotilla. SAPODILLA. 



Family Sapotaceae. 



LOCAL NAMES. Chico (Guam); Chico, Zapote chico, Zapotillo chico (Philip- 

 pines); Nispero (Spanish West Indies); Nis-berry, Nees-berry, Nase-berry 

 (British West Indies); Brei-apfel (German); Sapotille (French). 



A handsome evergreen tree with milky juice bearing a fruit shaped like an apple, 

 cultivated extensively in the Tropics. Leaves thick and glossy, clustered at the 



a Watt, Economic Products of India, vol. 6, Pt. 2, p. 458, 1893. 

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