396 SANTALACE^. (SANDALWOOD FAMILY.) 



Synopsis. 



• Flowers perfect. 



1. COMAXDr^A. Anthers connected with the calyx-lobes by a tuft of hairs. Learea &1- 



ttriiat*;. • ^ 



* • Flowers dioecious. Shrubs. 



2. DARBYA. Calyx 4 -6 cleft. Anthers connected with the calyx-lobes by a tuft of hair*. 



Leaver oppo.-ite. Flowers uiiil>elled. 

 8. PYRULARIA. Calyx 5-cleft. Stamens 5. Anthers free. Albumen oily. Leaves alternate. 



Flowers spiked 

 4. BUCKI.KYA. Calyx-limb double, each 4-lobed. Stamens 4. Anthers free. Albumen 



fleshy. Leaves nearly opposite. Flowers terminal. 



1. COMANDRA, Nutt. 



Flowers perfect. Calyx bcU-sliapcil, 5-clcft, the persistent lobes alternating 

 with the lobes of the disk. Stamens 5 : anthers connected witli tlie calyx-lobes 

 by a tuft of hairs. Stigma capitate. Fruit nut-like, 1 -seeded. — Smooth peren- 

 nial herbs, witli alternate leaves, and small grecnisli-whito flowers, in axillary 

 and terminal umbol-Iikc pedunclcd clusters. 



1. C. umbellata, Nutt. Stem branching above ; leaves sessile, lanceolate 

 or oblong ; peduncles several, corymbose, S-S-dowered, mostly longer than the 

 leaves ; style slender ; fruiting calyx urn-shaped. (Tiicsium umi)ellatum, L.) — 

 Dry soil in the upper districts cf Georgia, and northward. Apiil and May. — 

 Stem S'- 10' higli. Leaves •]' - 1' long. 



2. DAEBYA, Gray. 



Flowers dioecious. Stcrilo flowers top-slinpcd, 4-r)-clcft, the lobes ovate, 

 spreading. Stamens 4 - .'), inscilcd into the sinuses of tlic ci-cnatcly 4 - .'i-lobi.d 

 disk : fdaments short : anthers connected witli the calyx-lo])e.s by a tuft of hairs. 

 Fniit 1-cellcd, l-secdid. Fertile flowers unknown. — A small shrub, with oppo- 

 site o^'al mcmliranaccous sliort-pctioled leaves, and tma'l greenish flowers in 

 axillary pedunclcd umbels. 



1. D. Umbellulata, Gray. — Near Milledgevillo and JNIaeon, Georgia, 

 Dr. DojLin, Prof Dnrhj. Lincolntcn, North Carolina, Citrtis.— Shrub l°-lJo 

 high. Leaves 1' long, smootli. Peduncles 3 - 8-flowercd, sliorter than the leaves. 



0. PYRUIjARIA, Micbx. Oil-Nut. 



Flowers dio-cious. Calyx f) cleft, the lobes recurved. Disk composed of 5 

 roundislj glands. Stamens of t!ic sterile flowers short, niternalc with the glands. 

 Fertile flower pear-shaped. Style short and thick : stigma deprcsscd-capitato. 

 Drupe pcar-shapcil, fleshy. Albumen oily. — A low branching shrub, with al- 

 ternate dociduoui leaves, and small greenish flowers in u short terminal 8pike. 



1. P. oleifora, Gray. (Ilnmiltonia oleifcra, i1/«/(/ ) — Shady bunks on the 

 mountains, Georgia, and northward. May. — Leaves jictioled, obovato-oblong, 

 acute at each eiul, pub.sccnt, 3' -4' long. Drupe 1' long. 



