896 SAXTALACE-E. (SANDALWOOD FAMILY.) 



Synopsis* 



• Flowers perfect. 



1. COMAXPKA. Anthers connected with the calyx-lobea by a tuft of hairs. Leaves at 



tenia te. 



* . Flowers dioecious. Shrubs. 



2. DARTiYA. Calyx 4 -5-cleft. Anthers connected with the calyx-lobes by a tuft of hairs. 



a opposite. Flowers ambelled. 

 8. 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 

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

 nial herbs, with alternate leaves, and small greenish-white flowers, in axillary 

 and terminal umbel-like peduncled clusters. 



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

 or oblong ; peduncles several, corymbose, 3 - 5-flowered, mostly longer than the 

 leaves ; style Blender ; fruiting calyx urn-shaped. (Thcsium umbellatum, L.) — 

 Dry soil in the upper districts of Georgia, and northward. April and May. — 

 Stem 8'- 10' high. Leaves tf-V long. 



2. DARBY A, Gray. 



Flowers dioecious. Sterile flowers top-shaped, 4-5-elcft, the lobes ovate, 

 spreading. Stamens 4 - 5, inserted into the sinuses of the crenately 4 - 5-lobed 

 di-k : filaments short: anthers connected with the calyx-lobes by a tuft of hairs. 

 Fruit l-cell( d, L -seeded. Fertile flowers unknown. — A small shrub, with oppo- 

 site oval membranaceous short-petioled leaves, and small greenish flowers in 

 axillary peduncled umbels. 



1. D. umbcllulata, Gray. — Near Milledgcvillc and Macon, Georgia, 

 Dr. Bo I Darby. Lincolnton, North Carolina, Curtis. — Shrub l°-lj° 

 high. Leaves L' long, smooth. Peduncles 3-8-flowered, shorter than the leaves. 



3. PYRULARIA, Michx. On.-X.r. 



era dioecious. Calyx 5-cleft, the lobes recurved. 1 >i-k composed of 5 

 roundish gland-. Btamens of thesterile flower< Bhort, alternate with the glands. 

 Fertile flower pear-shaped. Style Bhorl and thick: stigma depressed-capitate. 

 Drupe pear-shaped, fleshy. Albumen oily. — A low branching shrub, with al- 

 ternate do iduous leave-,, and Bmall greenish flowers in a shun terminal spike. 



1. P. oleifcra, Gray. (Hamiltonia oleifera, Muhl ) — Shady banks on the 

 mountains, Georgia, and northward. May. — Leaves petioled, obovate-oblong, 

 BCOte at each end, pubescent, 3'-4 f long. Drupe 1' lung. 



