S80 A COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND BOOK 
that the women, when dressing themselves after having wash- 
ed, rubbed some odorous wood on a stone with water until it 
formed a pulp, with which they smeared their skins. The 
rich, on high occasions, used Sandal for this purpose ; but 
the wood more commonly used is that called Sa-nak-hha, 
the Limonia acidissima of Linnaeus, which has a pale 
colour, and perhaps, therefore, is the Lignum moschatum 
prhnum, 
CAP. XVI. 
Sandalum album et Citrinum Timorense, p. 42, t. 11. 
Rumphius sets out by observing, that the wJiite and ^el- 
lozo sandal are the produce of the same tree, which is true, 
not only of the sandal in the Indian Archipelago, which he 
describes, but also of that growing in Continental India. 
Concerning the latter, he remarks (p. 45), " in Malabrse 
ora in Balagatse montibus sandalum quoque album reperi- 
tur ; — puto autem pro sandalo albo haberi lignum Sam- 
barance dictum, quod sandalo simillimum, sed durius est." 
This clearly points out that the sandal of Continental India, 
in the opinion of Rumphius, is different from that of Timor, 
as I have no doubt it is from that of which he has given 
the figure. 
In the first place, the leaves of the continental Sandal 
are simple; while, to judge from the figure in Rumphius, 
those of the insular kind are pinnated ; for there is no in- 
stance of any plant with simple opposite lateral leaves, and 
a terminal one solitary, as represented in the figure. That 
the leaves in the insular kind are pinnated, is farther con- 
firmed by the account given by Valentyn, as quoted in 
Burman'^s Observation (p. 47), " diciturque Fraxino simi- 
lis." Besides, Rumphius says (p. 43), " quum folia inci- 
piant flavescere^ ac cum plurimls decidant rachibusj^^which 
