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SfATlVt: >»AMES. 



and quality calculated to render it available for 

 tloM €Mi$ x^srket^ l^e moi m mped hj the 



bumt before t&e idols : iIk oil is said tobe^x- 



prf'ssed from the wood, tiud also to be extracted 

 by l)oil)iio' or distillation. Saudrd-wood oil is 

 higiiiy esteemed, by some persons, iu herpetic 



•nkesmdaWood tree, (Snntahm) is placed in 

 the natural order Santalacese, class Tetrandria, 

 order Monogynia. There are scvci'al species, 

 but all have not wood possessed of fragrance. 

 Of ikom ttmi wbi^lt ^ «peiited niM^ is i)ro- 

 enred I axui asqtia^tedmth ii^ : two 

 have been described, one the Santalum myiti©- 

 lium, foMiKl ou the coast of Coromandel ; and a^. 

 Preyciuetif/ziiiWip found at the Suniiwich Islands ; 

 fihe other, an madegfiiibed species, at the New 

 Hebrides gron|» i aippeannf tali^ir^ m 



afiinify to that ^nnd on the Coromandel shores* 



The native names of the sandal-wood, in some 

 of the conutries where it is found indigenous, 

 are as follow : — 



AiiKmf the Malays Jeendan&« New Hebrides: 



Island of Erromanga, Nassau; l>l;nid ofTantia, 

 Nebissi ; Island of Annatom, Xarti, niat. Tbe 

 iVlarquesa group, Jiua ahi. The Island of Oparo, 

 Tnri, tnn. At the Island of Tahiti (where it 



