ORDER 110. SANTALACE^E. 291 



4. TETRANTHERA, Jacq. POND SPICE. Fls. as in Benzoin, but 

 the anthers are 4-celled and 4-valved as in Sassafras. Drupe globular 

 (red). J> Flowers yellow, precocious. February, March. 



T. geniculeta Nees. Shrub 8 15f, with branches and branchlets very crooked and 

 divaricate. Leaves small, oval to oblong. Swamps, S. 



ORDER CIX. LORANTHACE^E. LORANTHS. 



Shrubby plants, parasitic on trees, with thick, opposite, exstipulate leaves. 

 Flowers mostly diclinous, an adherent calyx of 2 8 lobes, with stamens of 

 the same number, opposite the calyx lobes. Ovary 1-celled, becoming a 

 fleshy fruit with one albuminous seed. (See Addenda.) 



PHORODENDRON, N. MISTLETOE. Fls. $ $ , in jointed spikes, 

 mostly 3-lobed. $ Anth. sessile on the base of each lobe, the 2 cells di- 

 vergent. ? Stig. sessile (no stamens). Fr. a pulpy, viscous beriy. Herb- 

 age yellowish-green. Sterns brittle, woody, firmly engrafted on the limbs 

 of oaks, elms, &c. 



P. flavcsceiis N. Stems much branched, 1 IJf ; leaves wedge-obovate, thick, entire, 

 as long as the spikes ; berry white, pellucid, sticking to the limb which it touches 

 until it takes root. 



ORDER CX. SANTALACE^E. SANDAL WORTS. 



'frees, slirubs, and herbs, with alternate, undivided leaves, with the calyx 

 tube adherent to the ovary, limb 4-5-cleft, valvate. Stamens as many as 

 the sepals, and opposite to them. Ovary 1-celled, with a free central pla- 

 centa bearing at top 2 4 suspended ovules, but in fruit drupaceous, 1- 

 seeded, crowned with the persistent calyx. 



Half-shrubby. Anthers connected to the sepals by a tuft of hairs COMANDRA. 1 



Shrubs. Anthers free. * Flowers 4-parted, with 4 petals in the $ flowers BUCKLEYA. 2 



* Flowers 5-parted, all apetalous. Leaves alternate PYRULARIA. 3 



1. COMANDRA, N. BASTARD TOADFLAX. Calyx tube adherent, 

 limb 4- or 5-parted. Anth. 4 or 5, connected as above mentioned. Fil. on 

 a 5-lobed perigynous disk. Smooth plants, with herbaceous branches and 

 whitish flowers in small umbels. 



1 C. umbelltVta N. Flowers perfect ; branches strict, corymbed above ; leaves ob- 



lanceolate, subsessile ; umbels 3-flowered, exceeding the leaves ; connecting hairs 

 yellow. Rocky woods. If. Leaves scattered, 9". June. 



2 C. Darbya A. DC. Flowers dioecious; branches short, leafy; leaves elliptical, 



mostly opposite ; umbels 5-flowered, shorter than the leaves ; connecting hairs white. 

 Woods, S. : rare. 1 2f. The fertile plant unknown. 



2. BUCKLEYA, Torr. Fls. $ ? , the ? with a double calyx, the in- 

 ner (corolla) caducous, and without stamens. Sty. 4-lobed. $ Calyx sin- 

 gle, 4-lobed, with 4 stam. Fruit oblong, 10-furrowed, 1-seeded. J> Leaves 

 subsessile, entire. Sterile flowers clustered, fertile solitary. 



