sandpiper

[SANDPIPER.] but afterward of a deep ferruginous hue. Though they are inodorous, the wood when cut, especially near the root, is highly fragrant. It grows in the dry region of Southern India, and in the islands of the Indian Archipelago. When felled the trunk is about nine inches or a foot in diameter. It is then barked, cut into billets, and buried in a dry place for about two months. It is largely exported from sand-plovers, s. pl. Ornith.: The genus Ægialitis. to Europe. The heart-wood is used in the East for carving, for incense, and for perfume. The seeds yield by expre ion a thick viscid oil, burnt by the poorer cla es in India. An e ential oil is also distilled from the wood. Hindu doctors consider chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; tion, -sion = zhun. -tious, -cio us, sandaracca, sandracca.] Chem.: Gum-sandarach (q. v.). sandarach-tree, sandrach-tree, s. Bot.: Callitris quad rival vis, called also Thuja articulata. [CALLITRIS.]