2. Viscum.] 54. LORANTHACEJE. [1. Santalum. 



Branchlets ridged and grooved. L. rarely 2\" subsessile. Peduncles 0-$''. 

 Heads usually 3-5-fld. subtended by 2 boat-shaped bracts connate at base 

 sometimes heads compound and bracts in decussate pairs. Per leaves 4 

 3 y long. 



Campbell says this plant is believed to derive its medicinal properties 

 from the tree on which it grows, and these are therefore as numerous as 

 its hosts. 



3. V- articulatum, Burnt. Katkom janga, 8. 



A leafless shrab with sap-green striate often sub-verticil- 

 late flattened branches contracted at the nodes. Internodes 

 1-2" by -sVC^P *p i" m one . form which I have not seen in our 

 area). Fls. minute, fascicled at the nodes with cup-shaped 

 bracts, 3-4-merous. 



Common, Singrbhum ; Hazaribagh, esp. on Diospyros ; Manbhum, very 

 common on Bassia and Diospyros and several other trees, Camp. • Kur- 

 irandi reserve, Palamau, Gamble. \Fls. Dec-Jany. ' 



Fam. 55. SAOTALACEjE. 



1. Santalum, L. 

 1. S. album, L. Sandal- wood. 



A small glabrous evergreen tree, a hemi-parasite-like 

 Loranthus, but terrestrial with haustoria attached to the roots 

 of trees. L. opp. 1-2J" long elliptic or ovate-lanceolate acute 

 or sub-acute. Fls. small in terminal trichotomous panicles 

 perianth •£" diam. at first pale then deep red rotate. Fr. a 

 fleshy globose shining black drnpe. 



Collected by the Revd. A. Campbell on Parasnath. Pis. March. 

 Fr. Nov. 



Fls. regular 2-sexual. Perianth campanulate with 4-5 spreading 

 lobes, with a tuft of hair behind the stamens which are inserted opp. 

 the lobes on the margin of the disc which lines the tube. Ovary 

 perigynous at first, ultimately half inferior with long style and short 

 2-4-lobed stigma, 1-celled. Ovules 2-4 inserted below the summit of a 

 long free central placenta. 



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