115 



some of the species have been used medicinally, but do not now find a 

 place in European practice, but are used by our natives as a remedy 

 for lumbago. 



Number of species more than 500. 



Flowers perfect. Perianth double. Style filiform. Loranthus. 



Flowers unisexual. Perianth single. Style short or 



wanting 



ViSCUM. 



List of Species. 



2 Viscum, LiniL. 

 continuum, E. M, 

 dichotomum, Don. 

 obovatum, Harv. 

 obscurum, Thb. 

 rotundifolium, Thb. 

 sp. (./". M. Wood, No. 3864). 

 sp. ( „ „ 3999). 



sp. ( „ „ 4145). 



A. 



y 



A. 

 A. 

 A 

 Z. 

 A 

 BC. 



ORDER CXLIX. S.\NTALACE^. 



Santalum album is the well known " Sandalwood " tree, the wood 

 of which is used for cabinet work and also medicinally, and for burn- 

 ing at funerals in India and Ceylon, The leaves of Colpoon com- 

 pressum are said to be equal to Sumach for tanning leather ; the shrub 

 is rare in Natal, but common in some parts of Cape and Orange River 

 Colonies. Several of our native species of Thesium are as yet un- 

 described. 



Number of species about 220. 



Perianth tube prolonged above the ovary. 1 



Perianth tube not prolonged above the ovary. 2 



1 Flowers axillary, 1-3 together. Rambling shrub. Osyridocarpus. 



1 Plowers cymose, or variously disposed. Thesium. 



2 Small shrubs. Leaves mostly opposite. (.-olpoon. 



2 Small shrubs. Leaves alternate, Osykis. 



List of Speciks. 



2 Osyridocarpus, A. D. C. 

 natalensis, A. D. C 



3 Oolpoon, Bergius. 

 compressum. Berg. 



4 Osyris, Linn, 

 abyssinica, Hochst^ 



AB 



BC. 



