622 Order 109.— SANTALACEjE. 



P. flav6acens Nutt. Branches opposite, sometimes verticillate, terete ; lvs. cn> 

 neate-obovate, 3-veined, obtuse ; spikes axillary, solitary, about as long as the 

 leaves ; berries white, semi-transparent. — N. J. to 111. (Laphain), and tho S. 

 States. Stems 1 — 1| high, rather thick, much branched. Leaves 9 — 10" by 4 — 

 £)'', smooth and entire, on short petioles. Fls. small, sterile ones mostly 3-parted. 

 Berry with a viscous pulp adhering to the limb it touches until it strikes root. 

 April. 



Order CIX. SANTALACE^E. Sandalworts. 



Trees shrubs and herbs, with alternate, undivided leaves, with the calyx tuba ad- 

 herent to the ovary, limb 4 to 5-cleft, valvate in aestivation, the stamens as many 

 as the sepals, inserted at their base and opposite to them, an ovary 1-celled, with a 

 free central placenta bearing at top 2 to 4 suspended ovules, but in fruit, drupaceous, 

 1-seeded, crowned with the persistent calyx. 



Genera 20, species 200, natives of Europe, America, Australasia, &c. The fragrant saud.il - 

 ■wood is the product of Santalum album, &c, of India. 



TRIBES AND GENERA. 



I, J3TjCKLEYE.E. Fls. dioecious, the pistillate dichlamydeous, with no stamens. 



9 Calyx lobes4; petals 4, caducous, i stamens 4. Shrubs CuckleTA. 1 



II. SANTALE^E. Flowers perfect or polygamous, always monochlamydeous. (a) 



a Flowers in spikes or racemes. Drupe pyriform. Shrubs PvncLAUiA. Jf 



a Flowers in cymous umbels. Nut ovoid. Half shrubby Comaxdt.a. 8 



1. BUCKLETA, Torr. (To S. B. Buckley, an active and successful 

 botanist.) Flowers $ ? , the $ dichlamydrous ; outer (calyx) lobes 

 4, lanceolate; inner (corolla) lobes 4, ovate, acute, 1-veined, caducous; 

 stamens ; style included, 4-lobcd ; $ monochlamydeous ; lobes 4, 

 ovate, acute, valvate in bud, opposite the 4 stamens inserted at their 

 base ; disk concave, lobes 4, alternate with the sepals ; fruit oblong, 

 drupe-like, 10-furrowed, 1-seeded. — A shrub or small tree, with sub- 

 sessile, entire lvs., the sterile fls. clustered, pedicellate, the fertile solitary, 

 all terminal, small. 



B. distyclioplr£-lla Torr. — Mts. of E. Tenn. Shrub with tho slender twigs vel- 

 vety-puberulent, as well as the veins and flower-stalks. Lvs. ovate, acuminate, 

 to 18" long, thin, ciliato on the margin, obtuse at base, on very short petioles. 

 £ lis. 1.1" broad, in the midst of caducous bractlets. 2 Fl. subtended by 4 

 brae tie ts. Fr. 8 to 9" long, narrowed at base into the short stipe. (Borya diity- 

 ehophylla Nutt.) 



2. PYRULA'RIA, Mx. Oil-nut. (Diminutive of Pyrus ; its fruit 

 resembling a little pear.) Flowers dioecious ; calyx 5-cleft, subcam- 

 panulate ; disk 5-toothed, glandular, half-adherent to the ovary ; style 

 1 ; stigmas 2 or 3, sublenticular; drupe pyriform, 1-seeded, inclosed in 

 the adhering base of the calyx. — Shrubs with the habit of Celastrus. 

 Lvs. alternate, entire. Rac. terminal. 



P. pubera Mx. Shrub unarmed ; lvs. oval-oblong, acute, puberulent, pellucid- 

 punctate; rac. spike-like, terminal. — Margins of mountain streams, Penn. to Ga. 

 Shrub 4 — 6f high. Root fetid. Leaves 2 — 3' by 1 — IV, entire, acuminate, pet- 

 iolate, veins prominent beneath. Flowers small, greenish yellow. Calyx tube 

 short, nearly fdled with the glandular disk in tho $ flowers, the segments reflexed 

 in the 2 . Stamens alternate with the glands of the disk, opposite to those of 

 the calyx. Drupe 7 to 9" long, 5 to 7" thick. May. (Hamiltonia oleifera 

 Muhl.) 



3. COM AN 'DR A, Nutt. Bastard Toad Flax. (Gr. n6\ir\, hair, 

 uvdpec, stamens ; stamens connected to the petals by a tuft of hairs.) 



