Pyrularía.] CXXXIII. SANTALACEE, (J. D. Hooker.) 231 
4-5000 ft., J. D. H. Mishmi Hills, in Upper j 
4-5000 fi. Wallick, a PP Assam, Griffith. KHASIA MTS., alt, 
i A large or small thorny deciduous leaved tree; branches stout, youngest villous ; 
ants large, of pale broad silky rounded imbricating scales. Leaves 3-7 in., rather 
eshy, rarely obovate-oblong, quite entire ; nerves few, very oblique, sunk above, very 
Prominent beneath, petiole 1-1 in. Male racemes 1-3 in. terminal and axillary ; 
flowers pedicelled, about à in. diam., ebracteate. Perianth-lobes triangular, ‘acute. 
Fl. fem. Ovary clavate, pubescent ; style short. Drupe 14-2 in. long, narrowed into 
the stout peduncle, crowned with the perianth-lobes; epicarp tough; sarcocarp 
glutinous, traversed by vessels ; endocarp globose. 
3. SANTALUM, Linn. 
Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, rarely alternate, coriaceous. 
owers axillary or in terminal trichotomous paniculate cymes, 2;sexnal ; 
bracts minute. Perianth-tube adnate to the base of the ovary, campanulate 
or ovoid; lobes 4, rarely 5, valvate, with a tuft of hair on the face. Stamens 
» Short, united at the bases of the lobes. Disk of scales between thé 
stamens. Ovary at first free, at length half-inferior ; style elongate, 
stigma 2-3-lobed ; ovules 2-3, inserted'below the summit of a long acumi- 
nate central free column, reflexed. Drupe subglobose, top annulate by the 
eciduous perianth. Seed subglobose; embryo terete, slender.— Species 
about 8, Indian, Malayan, Australian and Pacific. 
S. album, Linn. Sp. Pl. 497; leaves elliptic-ovate or ovate-lanceolate 
acute or subacute base acute, panicles terminal and lateral, pedicels about 
equalling the perianth-tube. —.4. DC. Prodr. xiv. 683; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 442, 
and Ed. Carey & Wall. i. 462; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 177; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl. 224; Brand. For. Fl. 398; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 329; Beddome FT. 
Sylv. t. 256; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 321; Dict. Sc. Nat. t. 5 (except the 
hairs), copied in Spach Hist. Veg. t. 25; Hayne .Arnz. Gewachs, x. t. 1; 
Bentl. $ Trimen Med. Pl. iii. t. 292; Griffith in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 59, 
t. 1-3; Bot. Mag. t. 8235. S. myrtitolium, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 444, and Ed. 
Carey § Roxb. i. 464. §. verum, Linn. Mat. Med. 102. Sirium myrtifolium, 
Roxb. Cor, Pl. i. t. 2; Fleming in As. Research. xi. 181 (Syriam). Sanda. 
. jum album, Rumph. Amb. ii. 42, t. 11.—Ohandana, Jones in As. Research- 
lv. 253. 
Deccan PENINSULA; from near Poona on the west and Midnapoor on the east, 
Southwards, on dry hills, ascending to 3000 ft.; cultivated elsewhere. 
A small evergreen glabrous tree. Leaves opposite, 14-2 in. long, pale brown 
when dry, thin, narrowed ihto a slender petiole }-} in., glaucous beneath; nerves 
faint. Racemes much shorter than the leaves, pedicels opposite; flowers j in. dium., 
at first straw-cold., then blood-red, inodorous even when bruised. Drupe globose, 
81Ze of a cherry, black when ripe, flesh juicy ; endocarp hard, with 3 short ribs Trom 
the tip downwards.— The S. myrtifolium of the Concan with narrower undulate leaves 
And less scented wood is regarded by Roxburgh as a very distinct species, and by 
€ Candolle as a variety. Brandis, however, unites them, and I follow him as the 
test Indian authority. Roxburgh’s dried specimens show no character, 
4. OSYRIS, Linn. 
Leaves alternate. Flowers small, 
Glab : . 
J!abrous shrubs; branches angular "Perianth-tube solid in the male 
axillary, solitary or cymose, polygamous. : 
fl., in the fem. adnate. to the ary ; lobes 3-4, triangular, valvate, with a 
tuft of hair on the face. Stamens 4-5, short, inserted at thé base of the 
obes; anther-cells separate. Disk angled between the stamens. Ovury 
