OF THE HEKBARIUM AMBOINENSE. 
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seems to imply, that the small branches, on which the leaves 
are inserted, fall along with them as in pinnated leaves ; 
or, in other words, are petioli communes. 
In the next place, allowing the figure in this point to be 
erroneous, and that the insular, as well as the continental 
sandal, has simple opposite leaves, there is an essential 
difference in the structure of those of the two plants ; those 
of the continental plant having no lateral ribs, while the 
figure of the insular sandal represents these organs dis- 
tinctly ; and Rumphius says (p. 43.), " folia multis pa- 
rallelis venulis, uii in Varinga, ab utraque parte protube- 
rantia." 
Finally, the leaves of the insular plant are described as 
four inches long, and three broad, while it is a large leaf of 
the continental sandal, that measures two and a-half inches 
long, and one broad. These dimensions show also a great 
difference in form, which differs likewise in another respect, 
the leaves of the continental plant being generally obtuse, 
while all in the figure of Rumphius end in a very sharp 
point. 
I am, therefore, not a little surprised, that Dr Roxburgh 
(Fl. Ind. 464. in the note), should say, " the leaves of our 
tree (continental sandal) agree particularly well with Rum- 
phius''s figure yet, in the text, he states, " I have rea- 
sons to think the tree which produces the safidal-wood of 
Malabar and Timor to be different,'' The sentence, indeed, 
in which this is contained, is obscure ; but the above opi- 
nion, coinciding with mine, is abundantly clear. I shall 
have occasion farther to consider this subject, when I treat 
of the Lignum papuanum (p. 57). 
Whether or not the Santalum verum of Breynius be the 
same with the plant of Rumphius, I cannot say ; but both 
were quoted by Linnaeus for his Santalum album, which 
he at first placed in the class Octandria (Burm. Fl. Ind, 
