Santalum, TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 4430 
lower pair of each thyrsus generally three-flowered. Flow- 
ers numerous, small, when they first expand straw-coloured, 
changing ‘to a deep ferruginous purple, inodorous, as are all 
the exterior parts of the growing plant, even when bruised. 
Calyx one-leaved, campanulate; border four-parted ; seg- 
ments ovate, smooth, base of the bell only permanent, Corol_ 
none, except the ealyx, or nectarial glands are so called, 
Nectary of four, roundish, sessile; thick, fleshy glands, on 
the mouth of the bell of the calyx, alternate with the segments. 
of its border, and when the flower first. expands, the most 
coloured. part, entire.. In Siriwm (now Santalum) myrtifoli- 
um, they are lobate. Filaments four, alternate with the nee- 
tarial scales, and of the same length, smooth, but behind each 
there rises a tuft of white hairs from the disk of the segments 
of the calyx, perfectly distinct from the stamina, but-of the 
same length, the ends of these long, white, woolly hairs ad- 
here to the back of the small, two-lobed anthers. Germsemi- 
superum, one-celled, containing one conical. seed, attached to 
the bottom of the cell. . Style, length of the tube of the ea- 
lyx, Stigma three-neryed, four-lobed. Berry pyrenous, 
round, smooth, when ripe black, and succulent, size of a cher-~ 
ry, and crowned with the remaining calyx, one-celled. Nut 
solitary, spherical; three small, equi-distant elevations from 
the apex run a little way down the sides. Seed conform to 
the nut. Jntequment single, soft, white, spongy, lining the 
nut, and adhering to it and the seed also. Perisperm con- 
form to the seed, white, amygdaline, Embryo inverse, subu-. 
late, nearly as long asthe vertical diameter of the perisperm, 
Catiyledens ome, mupnalslinest lanceolate, shemale mt ite, 
Obs. The deseriptions and original figures ofthe f fc 
taken from the plants which grow wild, fa he “oui 
‘of the Raje ri Cirear, on the coast of Coromandel, 
where the trees are but of a smalbsize, scarcely more than a 
— shrub, or bush, with lanceolate leaves; and the wood 
