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ORDER 120. SANTALACEE. Sweet’s Hort. Brit. p. 352. 
THE SANDAL-woopD TRIBE. Lind. nat. syst. p.74. 
616. SANTALUM.L. Tetrandria Monogynia, 
Said to be derived from the Persian name, er perhaps rather from Chun- 
duna, in sanscrit. N. Lam. ¢. 74, 
1283. S. Arpum. Rox. Flora. Ind, 1, p. 442. Sirium myrtifolium? Rox. Cor. 
1.t.2 Rumph. Amb.2. ¢. 11. Bet. Mag. t. 3235. Loureiro’s Cochin China. 
1. p 87. Chandana. Asiat. Res. 4. p. 253. Ainslie. Mat. Ind. |. p. 376. 
Marsden’s Sumatra. p. 129. Buchanan’s Jeurney. |. p. 186 and 202. 2. p. 
117. 132 and 536 and 3. p. 192. 
Chundun.— Sandal Weod. The well known Sandal wood of commerce; 
usually cut inte billets, and disposed of in that state. 
What is the 4/mug wood mentioned in Ist King’s 10-11,-12;—the Xyle 
peleketa, (piece wood.) of the Septuagint? P 
Grows in Gardens about Bombay, and in the Deccan. 
The woed is burnt to perfume temples, and dwelling houses, both in China 
and India. Reduced to powder, itenters into a composition for marking the 
forehead.—Southey happily alludes to both these uses. . 
** And still the aloes and the sandal-wood, 
From golden censers, o’er the banquet room 
Diffuse their dying sweets.” Thalaba, Book 6. 
““ No idle ornaments deface 
Her natural grace, 
Musk-spot, nor sandal- streak, vor scarlet stain, 
Ear-drop nor chain, nor arm nor ankle-ring, 
Nor trinketry on front, or neck, or breast, 
Marring the perfect form.” 
The Curse of Kehama, Book 13. 
617. OSYRIS. i. Dioecia Triandria. 
Osua.—a willow,—osier;—name given perhaps, in allusion to the twiggy 
branches of some of the species. Lam. Ill. 3. ¢. 802. 
1284. O. Perratra. Rox. Flora. Ind. 3. p. 755. 
Chanda.—A small tree, with peltate, vvate, cordate leaves, much resemb!ing 
those of Hernandia Ovigera. (Rumph. Amb. 3. ¢, 123.) Flowers in March 
and April; capsule size of a pea; covered with a clammy substance, having a 
strong turpentine smell. It also covers the young shoots, Grows on the 
Kandalla, Parr and Tull Ghauts;—rare. Also in both Concans, Allied to the 
Euphorbiacez? N. 
2185. O. WIGHTIANA, G. 
Lotul.—A small tree, with twiggy, erect-growing branches; in flower and 
fruit most of the year. The fruit is about the size of a small sloe; when 
ripe, yellow; with a mark onthe top like the Blae-berry. (Vaccinium.) Kan- 
della;—Mahableshwur; and probably along the Ghauts, 
Lieut. Col. Sykes ranks it among his wild fruits, and calls it a “genus and 
species not determined.” (See Madras Journal of Science No, 22, p. 161.) 
~ ORDER 121. ELAAGNEA. Sweet’s Hort. Brit. p. 353. 
Tut Oveaster Trise. Lind, Nat. syst. p. 68. 
618. ELZAGNUS. L. Tetrandria Monogynia. 
From elaia—an olive,—agnos—the chaste tree; in allusion perhaps to 
the combined resemblance borne to these trees, Lam. ¢. 73, 
