SANTALACEAE 1249 
1. COMANDRA Nutt. Herbs with long rootstocks. Leaves alternate: 
biades narrow. Flowers perfect, cymose. Style columnar: stigma capitate. 
Drupe crowned with the persistent calyx.— 
Five one of them European 
1. ta (L.) Nutt. Plant 2-4 dm. 
tall: leaf- er elliptic, oval, or elliptic- MÀ 
ovate, 2-2.5 mm. long, Ma stamens 1% 
long as the p. rupe greenish- ab. 
mm. 
STARD 
LAX.)—Dry ground, thickets, and banks, 
various pod Ga. i Ar rk., Alb., and 
N. B.—Spr.-sum.—This the only santa- 
— genus in "North Jn with more 
than one species, three additional ed bar 
ove occurring in western North Amer 
2. NESTRONIA Raf. Shrubs with spreading branches. Leaves opposite: 
blades broad. Flowers polygamo-dioecious, the staminate. umbellate: sepals 
not veiny. Style conic; stigma 3-4-lobe 
Drupe of an oval type.—One species. 
1. N. umbellula Raf. Shrub 3-10 dm. tall, 
anes a e E is Sn. 
varying t or ob 
sepals broad e p Dus e pores of 
shrubs and trees with 
Coniferous trees are often wanting there. 
3. BUCKLEYA Torr. Shrubs with 2-ranked branches. Leaves opposite 
or nearly so, distichous: blades rather broad. Flowers dioecious, the staminate 
umbellate: sepals vei Style conic: stigma 
4-lobed. 
ny. 
È Drupe of an d en type.—One eg 
species. 
1. B. distichophylla (Nutt.) Torr. Shrub 
2—4 m. tall, the branches pubescent: leaf- 
g: sepals rounded at the base, green 
ish, those of the staminate flowers ovate 
5-3 mm. lo e pes (AS 
River-banks, Blue Ridge, nn m Ñ 
—Spr.sum.—Parasitic on the roots of hem- 3 ii] 
lock tr The geographi is very EF 
restricted, only three localities bei defi- QUU. 
nitely known at present, although others have 
been reported. The species is in danger of extermination. 
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