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loAver 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. 

 Cahj x one-leaved, campanulate; border four-parted; seg- 

 ments ovate, smooth, base of the bell only permanent. Corol 

 none, except the calyx, 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 Sirium (now Santalum) myrtifoli- 

 um, they are lobate. Filaments four, alternate with the nec- 

 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. 6?e/msemi- 

 superum, one-celled, containing one conical seed, attached to 

 the bottom of the cell. . Style, length of the tube of the ca- 

 lyx. Stigma three-nerved, 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, equidistant elevations from 

 the apex run a little way down the sides. Seed conform to 

 the nut. Integument single, soft, while, 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 as the vertical diameter of the perisperm. 

 Cotyledons two, unequal, linear-lanceolate. Plumula minute, 

 semilunate. Radicle tapering*, superior. 



Obs. The descriptions and original figures of the following 

 species, Sirium myrtijblium, Corom. Plants, vol. i. t. 2. were 

 taken from the plants which grow wild, on the mountains 

 north of the Rajamundn Circar, on the coast of Coromandel, 

 where the trees are but of a small size, scarcely more than a 

 large shrub, or bush, with lanceolate leaves ; and the wood 



