232 WOODS 



0-960 to 0-967 ; O.K. + 24 to + 29 ; contains 50 per cent, of 

 amyrol). 



West Australian Sandal wood, Fusanus spicatus, Robert Brown 

 (N.O. Santalacece) ; vessels in radial groups ; sp. gr. of volatile oil 

 0-953 to 0-965 ; O.K. + 5 ; contains 75 per cent, of santalol. 



South Australian Sandal wood, Santalum Preissianum, Miquel 

 (= Fusanus acuminatus, Robert Brown) ; sp. gr. of volatile oil 1-022 ; 

 rose-like odour. 



Fiji Sandal wood, Santalum Freycinetianum, Gaudich (= S. Yasi, 

 Seem.) ; sp. gr. of volatile oil 0-9768 ; O.R. 25-5 ; odour slight. 



Several other fragrant woods are known, e.g. those of Osyris tenui- 

 folia, (N.O. Santalacece) from East Africa ; Olearia Traversii, F. 

 Mueller (N.O. Composilce) New Zealand ; Brachyleana Hutchinsii, 

 Hutchinson (N.O. Compositce), Nairobi. 



STEMS IN LESS FREQUENT USE 



Tinospora (Gulancha). The dried stem of Tinospora cordifolia, Miers. (N.Oi 

 Menispermacece), a climbing shrub indigenous to tropical India. Straight or 

 twisted, light, cylindrical pieces, or in slices, about 2 cm. or less in diameter ; 

 cork thin, brown, papery, with raised scars of numerous lenticels ; cortex 

 greenish ; section shows a yellowish wood with radially arranged, wedge-shaped 

 wood bundles, containing large vessels, separated by narrower medullary rays ; 

 taste bitter. Contains berberine and also a glucosidal bitter principle. 



