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Size. —A small ornamental tree, usually attaining a height of 10 or 12 feet, 
but under favourable conditions 20 or 30 feet, with a stem diameter of 6 to 8 
inches. 
It forms a useful fodder-bush, protected from the operation of timber 
licenses. 
Habitat .—It is found plentifully in places in the Lachlan district and on 
the Murray and Darling Divers, and other parts of the interior of New South Wales; 
also in various dry parts of Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, and Western 
Australia. 
It exists in moderately large quantities in the districts where found, but I 
cannot estimate the approximate quantity. 
Sandalwood Oil. 
The principal species yielding the sandalwood oil of commerce is Santalum 
album, Linn., whose timber has been used because of its perfume, and for distillation 
of its oil, from remote antiquity. A full account of this oil, its manufacture, 
composition,* uses, &c., will be found in “ The Volatile Oils,”f and also in Sawers,^ 
and in many other works. For a figure of the plant, see Bot. Mag., t. 3235. 
Australian Sandalwood. —The Australian species of Fusanus and Santalum 
are more or less known as “ Sandalwood ” in Australia, and following is a brief 
account of them, with particular reference to their use for oil distillation, as far as I 
am aware of it. 
Fusanus. 
1. Fusanus persicarius, F.v.M.—Found in all the States except Tasmania. 
2. Fusanus spicatus, 11.Br. [Santalum cygnorum, Miq.).—Western Australia. 
3. Fusanus' crassifolius, H.Br.—New South Wales. 
1. Fusanus persicarius, F.v.M. (Syn. Santalum persicarium, F.v.M.) 
“ Native Sandalwood.” 
The root-bark is used as food by the aborigines. (Mueller, 2 nd General 
Report, 1854.) Also mentioned by Wilhelmi as used by the natives of the Murray, 
near Swan Hill; he describes it as tasteless but nutritious, and it is prepared in the 
same way as other roots—viz., by roasting in hot ashes. 
Miquel [Ned. Kruidk. Arch., iv, 1856) speaks (from Mueller’s notes) of the 
seed being of the size and taste of a filbert. 
* See Cripps, Pharm. Journ. [3], XXIII, 461, Dec., 1892. 
t By E. Gildemeister and Fr. Hoffmann (auspices of Schimmel & Co., Leipzig); Milwaukie, U.S.A., 1900. 
J “ Odorographia,” p. 315 ; also, 2nd series, p. 405. 
