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Hassan, Mysore, and Bangalore Districts. On the 

 other hand, the extreme maidan Districts of Kolar, 

 Tumkur and Chitaldroog, produce comparatively 

 little sandal. In point of growth, outturn, and 

 revenue, the best results have been attained at 

 Shimoga in the north-west, and Mysore in the 

 south. The altitudinal range of the species is 

 roughly 2,000 — 4,000 feet, although on the Nundy- 

 droog hill, in the Kolar District, it is flourishing at 

 an elevation of 4,500 feet. 



A small, evergreen tree of 25 — 35 feet, occasion- 

 ally larger in rich soil, but usually smaller as the 

 latter deteriorates and becomes deficient of mois- 

 ture ; insignificant in general appearance. Diame- 

 ter at base 1' to 1|-'. Bark } in., brownish-grey 

 on the surface, reddish within ; often ruptured ver- 

 tically. Leaves opposite, petiolate, exstipulate, 

 entire, ovate, ovate-lanceolate, elliptic-ovate, gla- 

 brous and shining on the upper surface, young leaves 

 dark green and more or less glaucous underneath, 

 older ones pale or yellowish green and variable in 

 size ; average blade 2|- x 1^ in. Flowers in terminal 

 and axillary, trichotomoxis cymes, shorter than the 

 leaf. Flower inconspicuous, in parts of 4 or very 

 rarely 5 ; perianth changing from pale-green and 

 brown to crimson ; stamens 4, attached to the tube 

 of the perianth and associated with interposed hairy 

 processes ; pistil bottle-shaped with a 3-lobed 

 gtigma. Drupe globose or subglobose, glabrous and 

 shining, annulate near the apex, one-seeded; the 

 colour and size of a large black currant or small 

 gean. 



Although strictly preserved by Government, the 

 sandalwood tree suffers from the attacks of men 

 and animals to a very large extent. It is only after 

 the seedling, or offset, attains a certain height that 

 its removal becomes punishable, and to prevent 

 itpouble of this sort, the raiyat is careful to romove 



