232 CXXXIII. SANTALACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [Osyris. 
inferior; style short or long, stigma 3—4-fld. ; ovules 2-4, pendulous from a 
short stout central placenta. Drupe globose or ovoid. “Seed globose; 
embryo terete or with cotyledons dilated.—Species 5 or 6, S. European, 
African and Indian. 
O. arborea, Wall. Cat. 4035; leaves subsessile elliptic-lanceolate 
-oblong or -obovate mucronate acute or acuminate base acute, male cymes 
in axillary peduncled clusters umbels racemes or fascicles, fem. subsoliiary 
(1-3) on long slender pedicels, drupe subglobose. A. DC. Prodr. xiv. a 
Brand. For. Fl. 399. O. Wightiana, Wall. Cat. 4036 ; Wight Ic. t. 1853; 
Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 177; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 223; A. DC. l c. 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Simla to Bhotan (exclusive of Sikkim), ascending 
to 7000 ft. Deccan PENINSULA; on the Ghats, from the Concan southwards. 
CEYLON ; in the Central Province, alt. 4—6000 ft. 1 
-À glabrous (except var. 8) shrub or small tree, black when dry ; branches acu 
angled, tips puberulous. Leaves 1-2 rarely 3 in. long, very variable in breadth, 
thickly coriaceous, midrib and nerves prominent beneath, or the latter faint. F lowers 
very minute. Drupe yellow, 4-1 in. diam. dois Hill 
Var. puberula, branchlets and leaves beneath finely puberulous.—Nilghiri Hills, 
Jerdon ; at Conoor, alt. 6000 ft., Beddome. Central Province, Thompson (Brandis), 
—I have not seen specimens of this variety from the Central Province. The Sind 
plant (no doubt from Beluchistan) collected by Stocks, cited as the same by Brandis, 
appears to me to be a very different species. . . ' 
. 
5. HENSLO VIA, Blume. 
Parasitic shrubs with spreading, erect or twining branches. Leaves 
alternate, thickish. Flowers very minute, monecious or diecious, axillary 
or the females with stamens ; males subracemose or capitellate ; fem. solitary 
or few and clustered. Perianth-tube of male 0, of fem. adnate to the ovary 
globose ovoid or oblong; lobes 5-6, valvate. Stamens 5 or 6, inserted at 
the base or middle of the lobes, short, 0, or reduced to staminodes 1n n 
female fl. ; anthers didymous, with a few long soft hairs at the back. DS 
čoncave or convex. Ovary inferior; stigma subsessile, discoid or lobe; 
ovules 2-3, pendulous from the top of a stout central column. .Drupeovors 
obovoid, ellipsoid or subglobose; inner wall of hard endocarp protruded 
as 5-10 hard vertical plates into deep fissures of the stellately lobed seed. 
Embryo linear.—Species about 12, Indian, Malayan and Chinese. m 
The characters of the 12 species described in the Prodromus, and which are chiefly 
taken from Blume (Mus, Bot. Lugd. Bat. i. 243), are utterly insufficient, and Em 
the imperfection of specimens I am at a loss to identify the Indian satisfactorily "li 
the Archipelagan species. H. Aeferantha, Vidal Sinops. Fam. y. Gen. Plant. Filip. 
t. 82, F, is Exocarpus latifolia, Br. 
1. H. granulata, Hook.f. & Thoms. Herb. Ind. Or. ; branches pustt- 
late, lowers sessile on the top of very short .clustered peduncles which a 
clothed with imbricating rounded bracts, the 4-5 upper of which form & 
spreading involucre, males numerous, females 1 or few, fruit small obovol’s 
pyrene 5-furrowed. A. DC. Prodr. xiv. 632; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 328. 
EASTERN HIMALAYA; Sikkim and Bhotan, alt. 4-7000 ft., Griffith (Kew Distrib. 
4989), J. D. H. KnasrA Mrs., alt. 5-6000 ft., J. D. H. & T. T. , 
A small parasitic shrub, with erect and spreading stout branches. Leaves 1-2 r 
long, from obovate to roundly spathulate, contracted into a distinct petiole, 5-9- 
nervcd. Clusters of peduncles ‘very numerous, 4-3 in. long; bracts with mem- 
branous subciliate margins, upper largest. Flowers quite sessile ; perianth 5-lohed j 
