Santalum. XEXitANnitiA monogynia. * 4^3 



and a half to three feet in circmnference. Bark browui&b, and sca- 

 brous, with longitudinal fissures. Brandies nimjeious, dividint; niucii, 

 spreading, and rising in every direction, forming nearlv a s[)herical 

 head. Young shoots round and smooth ; extreme height of our laro-est' 

 twelve or thirteen year-old trees, about twenty-five feet. — Leaves 

 opposite, petiolcd, oblong, generally obtuse, smooth, entire, glaucous 

 underneath ; length from one and a half to three inches. — Petioles 

 scarcely one-fouith the length of the leaves, smooth. — Stipules none. 

 Thyrsi axillary and terminal, much sliorter than the leaves. Pedi- 

 cels opposite, the lower pair of each thyrsus generally three-fiower- 

 ed. — F/vwers numerous, small, when they tirst expand straw-colour- 

 ed, changing to a deep ferrugenous purple, inodorous, as are all the 

 exterior parts of the growing plant, even when bruised. — Calyx one- 

 leaved, campanulate ; border four-parted ; segments ovate, smooth, 

 base of the bell only permanent. — Carol none, except the calyx, or 

 nectarial glands are so called. — Nectari/ 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 fnow Santalum) myrtifoli- 

 iim, they are lobate. — Filaments four, alteinate with the nectarial 

 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, per- 

 fectly distinct from the stamina, but of the same length, die ends of 

 these long, white, woolly hairs adhere to the back of^the small, two- 

 lobed anthers. — Germ semi-superum, one-celled, containing one co- 

 nical seed, attached to the bottom of the cell. Style, length of the 

 tube of the calyx. — Stigma three-nerved, four-lobed. Bern/ pyren- 

 ous, 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, equisdistant elevations from the apex run a 

 little way down the sides. — Seed conform to the nut. Integument 

 single, soft, white, spungy, lining the nut, and alhering to it and the 

 seed also. — Peri'^perm conform to the seed, white, amygdaline, — 

 Embri/o inverse; subulate, nearly as long as the vertical diameter of . 



