212 CXIV. SANTALACEZ. 
extra-tropical regions of the Old World, two extend into New — and tropical Ang 1 
Sid MINCE M Srt ralia. It is nea ge ted to Olacinea, above described in - 
the first v and to Loranthacec, in the GER the latter Od might in- — 
deed hive peers better placed in the present E: p: 1 
Perianth-tube adnate at the base, no the upper campanulate . 
Herbs or small shrubs, “ib alerts linear eaves. . . . 1. TxEsium. 
Scales or glands alternating with the aging at the base of the 
r pe. Trees or shrubs, with flat 
eaves mostly. oppo 2. SANTALUM. 
tueur on Ww the "ula divided to the ovary or to a broad 
Par sca with 2 parallel sat ening hee apnea Fruit 
a drupe. Trees or shru e ar site flat lea 3. FUSANUS. © 
Enah terminal, with colle confudit 6 opening i lobes. 
aves a ternate, minute and scale- like, or M nains or 
none, Flowers minute 
Flowers es or clustered, surrounded by 2 to 4 scale-like 
ract 4, CHORUTRUM. 
Flowers in little spikes or clusters or rarely solitary, each 
subtended by a te scale-like bract often very deciduous 5. LEPTOMERIA. 
` Anthers with 2 parallel Mdh Bu egg —— age Habit 1 
and infl 6. OxPHACOMERIA- 
Perianth peir the ee vided g^ the broad ‘base or ‘dilated i 
summi 
Wing 
n 3- or 4-merous, the finia solitary, 
the males in ‘clusters. Leaves alternate, linear-terete or ; 
minute and scale exp i 7. ANTHOROLUS. 
Flowers polygamo inflorescence and foliage of Leptomeria, 
or the leaves develops d and flat . 8. ExocARPUS. 
(The flowers in the last five genera very NS VERSE than i in the first three.) 
l. THESIUM, Linn. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth-tube adnate at the base, the free 
portion campanulate or tubular, with 5 or rarely 4 persistent lobes, - 
with a tuft of hairs inside at the base of or behind the stamens. 
near th 
Sta e serted near the base of the lobes; filaments thers ^ 
with 2 parallel cells opening longitudinally. Ovary inferior; placenta 
ften fle h 8 ovules suspended fro aper; 
style more or less elongated with a termi btuse or capitate stigma 
Fruit a small nut, usually ribbed outside and crowned by the persisten 
free portio h anth.— Herbs shru ender 
wiry stems. aves alternate, usually linear. Flowers small, ofa 
greenish yellow, solitary or in small cymes, pedunculate in the 
but the peduncle usually adnate at the base to the subtending 
free portion 
leaf, 
with 2 bracts on the short : 
The genus is widely dispersed over the temperate and warmer regions s of t 
World, the species partion arly ipw iud n. gum Africa. The only Australian 
appears to be the same as an East Asi 
1. T. australe, R. Br. Prod. 353 labrous perennial i 
mr or erect wiry branches, rarely pubes 1 ft. high. Leaves 
