N. 0. SANTA LACEjE. 1H9 
application of it. It is probably one of the many cases of the 
use of a remedy from a belief in the theory of signatures 
(Revd. A. Campbell.) 
N. 0. SANTALACEiE. 
1110. Santaium , album, Linn, h.f.b.i., v. 231 ; 
Roxb. 148. 
Sans. : — Chandana, srikhanda. 
Vern : — Chandan, sufed-chandan (t^ind.) ; Chandan Beng.) 
Sandal (Dec.); Shandanak-kattai, Chandanamaren (Tam.); 
Gandhapu-chekka (Tel.) ; Cliandana mutti (Mai.); Srigandha- 
damara, Candhaka-chekke (Kan.) ; Chandan Nasaphiyn, sandaku 
(Burm.). 
Habitat : — Deccan Peninsula; from near Poona on the west 
and Midnapoor on the east, southwards, on dry hills, ascending 
to 3,000 ft. , cultivated elsewhere. 
A small, evergreen, glabrous tree. Bark dark -grey, nearly 
black, rough with short vertical cracks, inner bark red. Wood 
hard, very close-grained and oily ; sapwood white, scentless ; 
lieartwood yellowish-brown, strongly scented. Branches slen- 
der, drooping. Leaves opposite, ovate or ovate-lanceolate ; blade 
lJ-2Jin ; petiole £in. Flowers brownish-purple, in axillary or 
terminal panicled cymes. Perianth campanulate ; limb of 4 
valvate triangular segments. Stamens 4, exserted, alternating 
with 4 rounded, obtuse scales, which may be regarded either as 
petals or as lobes of the disk. Di'upe globose, jin. diam., black ; 
endocarp hard. 
Uses : — Saudal-wood is described in Hindu medical works “as 
bitter, cooling, astringent arid useful in biliousness, vomiting, 
fever, thirst and heat of the body. An emulsion of the wood 
iB used as a cooling application to the skin in erysipelas, prurigo 
and sudamina.” (Hindu Materia Medica.) The wood, ground 
up with water into a paste, is commonly applied to local inflam- 
mations, to the temples in fevers, and to skin diseases to allay 
heat and pruritus. It also acts as a diaphoretic. A yellow 
volatile oil is distilled from the wood, which has been reported 
