554 CXII. LOEANTHACE^. 



Excluded Species. 



VISCUM nAMOSISSIMUM, Wall. Cat. (1828) 6876. Stems numerous, very much 

 braiiclied, elongate, pendulous, very slendei', terete or nearly so, striate. Leaves 

 usually absent (on one only of the 2 slieets in Herb. Kew. there is a single spathulate 

 sessile leaf 1 by \ in.). Flowers sub.se.s.sile, 1-3 at the nodes, very small, with 3-5 

 imbricate bracts at the base. Berry subglobose, ^-^ in. in diam., apiculate, smooth, 

 pale-green. 



I cannot find any specimens of this plant from the Bombay Presidency, most of 

 those purporting to be V. raniosissimum being F. angulatiim, Heyne. It is rare in 

 Ceylon {Trimen), Talbot gives the Bababuden hills (which are outside our area) as a 

 habitat, while Wight & Arnott (Prodr. p. 380) give no habitat. There are in all but 

 2 sheets in Herb. Kew., one from Ceylon and the other witliout any locality assigned 

 to the plant thereon. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 225 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 472 ; Talb. Trees, 

 Bomb. ed. 2, p. 292. 



Order CXIII. SANTALACE^. 



Trees, shrubs, or lierbs often semiparasitic on roots. Leaves alternate 

 or opposite, entire, sometimes scale-like or ; nerves inconspicuous ; 

 stipules (>. Flowers hermaphrodite or i-sexual, regular, usually small, 

 in simple or compound cymes; bracts usually small, sometimes leafy; 

 bracteoles 2, free or connate, subopposite, sometimes 1 or both obsolete. 

 Perianth superior or inferior, simple, green or colored ; limb 3-8-toothed, 

 -lobed or -partite; lobes often with a tuft of hairs behind the anthers. 

 Stamens as many as and opposite to the perianth-lobes, attached above 

 (rarely on) the perianth-base; iilaments filiform or wide: nnthers 

 2-celled, dehiscence longitudinal, introrse or lateral. ])isk epigynous 

 or perigynous. Ovary 1-celled, inferior ; ovules 2-3, adnata to or 

 pendulous from a central column ; style usually short ; stigma entire 

 or 3-G-lobed, Fruit a nut or drupe. Seed globose or ovoid, smooth, 

 rugose or sulcate ; testa thin or obsolete ; albumen copious, fleshy ; 

 embryo small, terete ; radicle superior. — Distiuij. Temperate and 

 tropical regions ; genera 28 ; species 220. 



Trees or shrubs not spinous ; anthei--cells distinct, parallel. 

 Leaves opposite ; stamens with interposed processes ; a small 



tree; flowers 2-sexual 1. Santalum. 



Leaves alternate; stamens without interposed processes; a 



shrub; flowers polygamous 2. Osykis. 



A spinous tree; antlicr-cells divergent or confluent; leaves 



alternate; filaments 2-rid ^ 3. Scleropyrum. 



1. SANTALUM, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves glabi'ous, subcoriaceous, o])posite (rarely 

 alternate). Flowers hermaphrodite, a.xillary or in terminal 3-chofomous 

 panieidate cymes : bracts minute. Perianth-tube cam panulatc or ovoid, 

 adnaie to the base of the ovary ; limb 4 (rarely 5)-lobed, the lobes 

 valvate and with a tuft of hairs on the face. Stamens 4 or 5, adnate to 

 the base of the perianth-lobes ; filaments slender, short ; anthers ovate, 

 the cells distinct, parallel. Disk of fleshy si)athulate scales, projecting 

 between the stamens. Ovary at fir.st free, ultimately ]-inferior ; ovules 

 2-3, inserted below the summit of a long acuminate free central column ; 

 style elongate ; stigma 2-3-]obed. Fruit a subglobose drupe, annulate 

 on the to|) by the deciduous ])erianth ; endocarp rugose. Seed sub- 

 globose ; albuuien copious ; embryo linear, terete, straight or nearly so, 



