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Oil  of  Sandal  Wood. 
/Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I        May,  1886. 
by  Rosenthal  to  yield  sandal  wood  in  West  Australia,  and  S.  lanceola- 
tum,  R.  Br.,  in  North  Australia,  New  South  Wales  and  Queensland, 
but  I  can  find  no  account  of  their  exportation. 
Eremophila  Mitchetti. — Dr.  Bancroft  presented  a  specimen  of  this 
wood  to  the  Museum  of  this  Society,  stating  that  it  was  known  in 
Queensland  as  sandal  wood.  It  has  a  weak  fragrance  not  exactly  like 
sandal  wood,  and  the  heart  wood  is  of  a  deep  brownish-red  color. 
Venezuela  Sandal  Wood. — A  specimen  of  this  wood  was  presented 
to  the  Museum,  together  with  a  fine  sample  of  the  oil,  by  Messrs.  Schim- 
mel  &  Co.,  of  Leipzig,  who  stated  that  it  came  from  Puerto  Cabello, 
in  Venezuela.  It  is  the  source  of  the  W.  I.  sandal  wood  oil  of  com- 
merce. It  has  already  been  pointed  out  in  '  Pharmacographia/  second 
ed.,  p.  603,  that  this  oil  may  be  distinguished  by  deviating  the  ray  of 
pola'rizfd  light  6*75°  to  the  right,  while  oil  of- sandal  wood  deviates 
it  18*6°  to  the  left  in  a  column  100  millimetres  long. 
The  name  of  sandal  wood  bark  having  been  applied  in  Mexico  to 
what  is  probably  the  bark  of  a  species  of  Myroxylon,  and  Bueida 
capitata  being  known  in  the  West  Indies,  according  to  Grisebach,  as 
sandal  wood,  it  seemed  probable  that  the  name  might  be  applied  in 
Venezuela  to  some  other  tree,  since  the  specimen  of  wood  presented 
to  the  Society  appeared  unlike  the  wood  of  Myroxylon  or,  so  far  as  I 
could  ascertain,  that  of  Combretaceous  trees.  Accordingly,  I  wrote 
to  Mr.  R.  Conn,  the  British  Vice- Consul  at  Puerto  Cabello,  who  has 
kindly  forwarded  a  living  specimen  of  the  plant  and  two  dried 
specimens,  but  unfortunately  neither  leaves  nor  fruit  were  then  obtain- 
able. So  far  as  can  be  judged  from  the  leaves  the  plant  belongs  to 
the  Rutaceoz. 
As  the  plant  does  not  appear  to  exist  in  the  national  herbaria  at 
Kew,  or  at  the  British  Museum,  a  brief  description  may  be  placed  on 
record  here.  The  stem  is  branched  in  an  irregularly  dichotomous 
manner,  the  branches  being  erecto-patent.  The  bark  is  thin  and 
brittle,  resembling  in  general  appearance  that  of  jaborandi  or  quassia. 
The  leaves  are  alternate  below,  becoming  more  or  less  opposite  on  the 
twigs.  The  leaves  are  five-foliolate  and  imparipinnate.  The  leaflets 
are  opposite,  with  a  petiole  about  a  quarter  of  an  inch  in  length,  en- 
tire at  the  margin,  thin  but  somewhat  rigid  when  dry,  ovate,  lanceo- 
late, and  acuminate,  somewhat  shining  above  but  glaucous  underneath. 
When  held  up  to  the  light  they  are  seen  to  contain  innumerable  oil 
receptacles,  which,  like  those  of  jaborandi,  vary  in  size  in  the  same 
