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may certainly claim a place in a series of Indian ve- 

 getables. 



17. Chandana. 



Syn. Gandhasara, Malaya/a, Bhadras'n. 

 \ r ULG. Chandan, Sandal, Sanders. 

 JLinn. True Sautulum\ more properly Sandalum. 

 Seep large, globular, smooth. 



Having received from Colonel Fullarton 

 many seeds of this exquisite plant, which he had found 

 in the thickets oiMidnapiir, I had a sanguine hope of 

 being able to describe its flowers, of which Rump hi us 

 could procure no account, and concerning which 

 there is a singular difference between Linnaeus and 

 Bur man the younger, though they both cite the 

 same sauthors, and each refers to the works of the 

 other ; but the seeds have never germinated in my 

 garden, and the Chandan only claims a place in the 

 present series, from the, deserved celebrity of its 

 fragrant wood, and the perpetual mention of it in 

 the most ancient books of the Hindus, who constantly 

 describe the best sort of it as flourishing on the 

 mountains of Malaya. An elegant Sanscrit stanza, 

 of which the following Version is literally exact, 

 alludes to the popular belief, that the Venus, or 

 Bambus, as they are vulgarly called, often take fire 

 by the violence of their collision ; and is addressed, 

 under the allegory of a sandal-tree, to a virtuous 

 man dwelling in a town inhabited by contending 

 factions: " Delight of the world, beloved Chanda- 

 u na, stay no longer in this forest, which is over- 

 u spread with rigid pernicious Vam 'as \ whose hearts 



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