Part IV.] Rama Rao : Host Plants of tin Sandal Tree. 
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trees in its neighbourhood fairly healthy and vigorous in growth 
and it appears to he a tolerably good nurse. 
Meliace*e. 
(27) Melia Azadirachta — (Deciduous tree). — The affected roots 
of this tree examined by me were rather sparsely attacked by 
sandal roots and the haustoria were of moderate size; the haustoria 
appear to penetrate to the woody tissues of this host as ascertained 
by Dr. Barber’s investigations under the microscope. A sandal 
tree growing within reach of a nt’m tree without any other host close 
by in Mr. Foulkes’ compound at .Salem had yellow coloured wood 
and was fairly vigorous in growth. I have elsewhere seen sandal 
growing vigorously in the company of this species. As it also 
yields moderately good timber, its cultivation with sandalwood is 
desirable. 
(28) Cipadessa fruiticosa — (Evergreen shrub). — The roots of this 
plant are also attacked pretty largely ; a number of medium-sized 
haustoria and scars were found in the specimens examined and the 
latter were deep and exposed to view the woody cylinder of the 
host; in some of the sandal tracts in India it is commonly found 
and appears to be a good nurse for young sandal. 
Olacace.e (Olacin ece) . 
(29) Cansjera Rheedii — (Evergreen climber). — I have not 
examined the roots of this climbing plant in the neighbourhocd of 
sandalwood, but Dr. Barber examined sandal haustoria on its roots 
under the microscope and found penetration of the haustoria into 
the woody cylinder. The extent to which this plant and others of 
the Olacaceos commonly found in sandal areas, such as Ximenia 
americana, Olax scandens, Opilia nmentacea, all of which are them- 
selves root-parasites, are affected by the sandal, requires further 
investigation in the field. 
Celastrace^. 
(30) Ehpodendron Roxhvrffhii — (Evergreen tree). — I examined 
only one root of this species close to a sandal tree and found some 
small haustoria on it; they were fiat, small and ineffective, as no 
penetration even into the living bark was found in the scars of some 
