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It is a small shrub or small tree, yielding a kind of sandalwood. Specific 
gravity, -749, according to one experiment by Mr. Osborne. 
Possibly this species is referred to in the following note :— 
A shipment of 88 tons of sandalwood left Rockhampton recently for Singapore. The wood was • 
obtained in the west, and was shipped to test the Eastern market. Large quantities of this wood are 
obtained in the interior of Queensland. -Building and Engineering Journal, Sydney, July 2, 1892. 
2. Fusanus spicatus, R.Br. (Syn. Santalum spicatum, A.DC.; S. cygnorum, 
Miq.), described in Muell. Cens., p. 64, as Santalum cygnorum. 
“ Pragrant Sandalwood.” 
In 1849, 1,204 tons of sandalwood, valued at £10,711, were shipped from 
Western Australia. The merchants bought it for shipment at £6 to £6 10s. 
per ton. 
At the London International Exhibition of 1862, a fine log of sandalwood, 
weighing 4-| cwt., was shown from the Blackwood River, Western Australia; and 
another, 3 feet 6 inches long by 11 inches diameter, from York. 
Now, the sandalwood trees of any size, within a radius of 150 miles of Perth, 
have been cut down, and little can be obtained, except at a great distance. In 
1876, 7,000 tons were exported, of the estimated value of £70,000. The amount 
exported in 1879 (chiefly to China and Singapore) was 4,700 tons, valued at 
£47,000. 
The amount exported in 1884 was valued at £29,960, of which this wood 
formed a considerable portion. China is the chief market for it. Some of it 
is used for burning in joss-houses. 
Schimmel & Co.’s Report of October, 1890, contains the following state¬ 
ment :— 
The considerable quantity of 4,470 tons, worth £33,525, of the resinous-smelling Australian sandal¬ 
wood, from the Swan River (quite unsuitable to European requirements), was exported in 1899 to 
Singapore and China. 
The Sydney Morning Herald, of lltli September, 1890, contained the 
telegram from its Perth correspondent: “The newly-establislied Distillery Company, 
a short distance from Albany, shipped the first instalment of twenty cases of 
sandalwood oil to England.” 
Extract from the Chemist and Druggist, dated 28th March, 1891 :— 
“ . For several years the wood has been exported in large quantities from Western 
Australia, but only recently has the Western Australian Distillery Company (Limited), with headquarters 
at Albany, undertaken the distillation of the essential oil on an extensive scale. Several consignments 
have already reached London and been disposed of, and last week ten cases of the oil were offered at the 
public sales. 
“ We have had the opportunity of examining a small sample of this oil, and have carefully 
compared it with a sample of the genuine Madras oil. The Australian oil is of much more fragrant odour 
than the Madras kind ; it rather resembles the Fiji oil (distilled from Santalum yasi) in this respect, and 
also in colour, which is a pale straw. The most notable point of difference between this oil and the 
