Sandoricum
(altered from Santoor, the Malay name of the genus). Sandal-tree. ORD. Meliaceae. A genus of about four species of stove, evergreen, glabrous or pubescent-tomentose trees, natives of the Moluccas. Flowers yellow, sparse or glomerate, bracteate; calyx cup-like, the limb of five short, imbricated lobes; petals five, free, imbricated; panicles axillary. Fruit apple-shaped, fleshy, acid, edible. Leaves trifoliolate; leaflets ample, nerved. S. indicum is extensively cultivated in the tropics. It thrives in a compost of loam and peat. Propagation may be effected by cuttings, inserted in sand, under a hand glass, in heat.
S. indicum (Indian). fl. disposed in axillary, somewhat panicled racemes. fr. agreeably acid, containing five ovate-compressed nuts. l., leaflets ovate-oblong, entire, pubescent. Lofty tree 1820. (B. F. S. 319).