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South Sea Island Sandalwoods. 
The best account of the South Sea Island Sandalwood, including a figure 
and description of S. yasi, Seem., is to be found in Seemann’s Flora Vitiensi, pp. 
209-215, with tab. lv. There are also some notes in Horne’s A Year in Fiji. 
a . Fiji Sandalwood. —The wood of Santalum yasi, Seem.,* * * § from the Fiji 
Islands, was exhibited at the Colonial Exhibition at South Kensington in 1886. 
Upon distillation it yielded 6^ per cent, of a volatile oil, with a faint but not very 
delicate odour, thus rendering it unfit for perfumery.f Sp. gr., 0 9768 ; a D = — 25 - 5° 
(MacEwan, 1888)]: (“The Volatile Oils,” p. 345). 
Mr. John MacGillivray§ read an interesting paper, entitled “ Some remarks 
on the Sandalwood of the South Sea Islands,” many years ago, before the Horti¬ 
cultural Improvement Society of New South Wales. 
b. New Cilledoiliil Sandalwood. — Santalum austro-caledonicum, Vieill., 
the tibo of the natives, formerly very abundant, has become very scarce, because the 
trees, on account of the fine aromatic yellow wood, have been felled to such an 
extent, that now only the stumps and roots left from former times can be utilised. I] 
c. New Zealand Sandalwood. —This is Fusanus Cunninghamii , Bentli. and 
Hook., f. ( Santalum Cunninghamii, Hook., f.), one of the trees known as “ Maire” 
in New Zealand. It possesses an agreeable perfume, and is used for small articles 
of turnery. 
Parasitism of* Sandalwood trees and other Santalaceae. 
The difficulty which attends the cultivation of Sandalwood trees which, of 
course, are very valuable, is notorious, and the key to the problem of cultivation 
probably lies in the fact that its roots are parasitic on the roots of other plants. 
The notes I give show that the matter is engaging the attention of Indian botanists 
and others, and it is of especial inrportance to them because of the magnitude of the 
Sandalwood industry in that country. We in Australia should also give attention to 
the subject. We have not only species of Sandalwood, but ornamental trees, such 
as the Native Cherry ( Exocarpus cupressiformis), which we know from experience 
is very difficult to transplant. 
* Pharm. Jour., iii, 16, pp. 757 and S‘20. 
f Bericht von Scliimmel »(.■ Co., Apr., 1888, p. 39. 
t Pharm. Journ., ii, 18, p. 661. 
§ Sydney Magazine of Science and Art, ii, 196 (1859). 
Jov.rn. de Pharm. etde Chim., March, 1870, p. 242. (Pharm. Journ. [3], ii, 403, 
