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produces a large net-work of side roots and rootlets all of wkidi are 
attacked. It yields good timber. Plate I is a lialf-size drawing 
of one of the roots examined by me. 
(.9) Sida car pin if alia — (Evergreen undersbrub). — I found roots 
of this attacked but only occasionally, as only one baustorium and 
a couple of scars ^^ere found on tbe whole root-system of a plant. 
It may not be a good nurse. 
{10) Sida rhomhifuJia — (Evergreen undersbrub). — Tbe sandal 
baustoria on tbe roots of tbis plant were examined by Dr. Barber 
wbo found tbem penetrating tbe woody cylinder.^ 
{11) Gos.'iypinm nrborcvm — (Deciduous small tree). — ^Sumerous 
root-attacbments between tbis species and sandalwood were found 
and a sandal seedling in its company was growing remarkably well, 
while other sandal seedlings, far away from it and without any 
root-attacbments, were stunted and poorly in appearance.^ In the 
early stages of growth of tbe sandalwood tbe cotton plant appears 
to be a A'ery good nurse for it; as it also yields cotton, its introduc- 
tion as a nurse may be doubly advantageous. 
Steuculiace^e. 
{12) Sterciilia alata — (Deciduous tree). — 
{13) Pterospertninn svherifoliinn — (Evergreen tree). — 
{14] FtcroKpeninnii Heyiuanuvi — (Evergreen tree). — 
{15) Guaznma tovientosa — (Deciduous tree). — 
not examined by me, but Dr. Barber has examined sandal baustoria 
on tbem alP and found penetration into their woody cjdinders. 
Their practical utility as nurses to sUndal plants has to be deter- 
mined by further investigation in the field. 
Attacked 
f roots of 
r these spe- 
) cies were 
Tiliace^. 
{16) Berrya Ainmo)iiUu — (Evergreen tree).- — I have not seen 
attacked roots of tbis plant. Dr. Barber refers to tbe sandal haus- 
* Dr. Barber’s “ Studies in Root-parasitism — The Haiistorium of Santalum 
album,” Volume I, No. 1, Part 2. — Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture 
in India. 
^ My “ Notes on Sandal.” — Indian Forest Records, Volume II, Part III. 
