396 SANTALACEA. (SANDALWOOD FAMILY.) 
Synopsis. 
æ Flowers perfect. 
1. COMANDRA. Anthers connected with the calyx-lobes by a tuft of hairs. Leaves al- 
ternate. 
* x Flowers dicécious. Shrubs. 
2. DARBYA. Calyx 4£-5-eleft. Anthers connected with the calyx-lobes by a tuft of. bain. 
Leaves opposite. Flowers umbelled, 
9. PYRULARIA. Calyx 5-cleft. Stamens 5. Anthers free. Albumen oily. Leaves alternate. 
Flowers spiked 
4. BUCKLEYA. Calyx-limb double, each 4-lobed. Stamens 4. Anthers free. Albumen 
fleshy, Leaves nearly opposite. Flowers terminal. 
1. COMANDRA, Nutt. 
Flowers perfect. Calyx bell-shaped, 5-cleft, the persistent lobes alternating — 
with the lobes of the disk. Stamens 5: anthers connected with the calyx-lobes a 
by a tuft of hairs. Stigma capitate. Fruit nutlike, 1-seeded. — Smooth peren- — 
nial herbs, with alternate leaves, and small greenish-white flowers, in 
and terminal umbel-like peduncled clusters. 
1. C. umbellata, Nutt. Stem branching above ; leaves sessile, de 
or oblong ; peduncles several, corymbose, 3 — 5-flowered, mostly longer than the 
leaves ; style slender ; fruiting calyx urn-shaped. (Thesiam umbellatum, L- Pe 
Dry soil in the upper districts of Georgia, and northward. April and ME XE 
Stem 8'- 10! high. Leaves }/-1! long. = 
2. DARBYA, Gray. 
Flowers diccious. Sterile flowers top-shaped, 4- 5-cleft, the lobes ovate, 
spreading. Stamens 4 —5, inserted into the sinuses of the crenately 4- 
disk: filaments short: anthers connected with the calyx-lobes by a tuft nse 
Fruit L-celled, 1-seeded. Fertile flowers unknown. — A small shrub, with opp” 
. Site oval membranaceous short-petioled leaves, and small greenish flowers * 
axillary peduncled umbels. : 
1. D. umbellulata, Gray.— Near Milledgeville and Macon, pet 
Dr. Boykin, Prof. Darby. Lincolnton, North Carolina, Curtis. — Shrub m S 
high. Leaves 1’ long, smooth. Peduncles 3 - 8-flowered, shorter than the HY 
3. PYRULARIA, Michx. On-Nvr. 
ub 
. Flowers diccious. Calyx 5-cleft, the lobes recurved. Disk m yA 
. roundish glands. Stamens of the sterile flowers short, alternate with the = 
Fertile flower pear-shaped. Style short and thick: stigma de 
Drupe pear-shaped, fleshy. Albumen oily. — A low branching 
ternate deciduous leaves, and small De flowers in a short 
