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often above lin. long, but the upper ones much shorter and 
€ Einder, and a few of the lowest short and broad. Peduncles 
1-flowered, m short, adnate at hs base hi the di: D "n 
Distant: peris n bay, Dawson and inet rivers, y Lem 
S. Wales. Nop ean river and Cow pastures, R. ; Hunter's river, 
Jus ican Exploring Erpeditio ion; Bokhara Creek, pere pto river, Beckler ; 
New ‘oe a nA Stua 
. Port Phillip, ka "pee ; Delatite and Ovens rivers, Lake Omeo, F. 
Mueller ; — Val, Bober 
Tasm river, a Brown; also Laurence. 
Iam malls to ieee from this species the T. chinese, Turcz. ; A. DC. Prod. 
Xiv. 649, dies N. China, or the 7. pe Bl, A. DC. Fc. 652, from Japan, Formosa, 
and Loo-choo. Takin ng the flowers at the sa I^ I find the same shape and propor- 
tions of the perianth- tube and lobes in all ees 
2. SANTALUM, Linn. 
en herma hrodite. Vostri Timeo at the base, the. free 
them into a long point. Style elo ngated, with a small 2- or 3-lobed 
Fruit a globular drupe, the epicarp fleshy- but not thick, 
marked above the middle or on the summit with a circular scar left by 
the deciduous perianth-lobes, the endocarp hard and usually rugose.— 
es or shrubs. Leaves opposite or rarely —— petiolate, entire, 
in 0 
nera, in small cee or terminal otomous panicles usually 
shorter than the leaves and s almos reduced to simple racemes. 
i s the Australi hich a Fts be endemic, there a few nearly 
allied prod in Kast In die qiie rehipelag, a nd the N. and g. "Pacific islands. 
© species require a careful revision from complete specimens ; many 0 of those in her- 
Paria, Ex or T the Australian ones, are very doubtfui, from the absence of flowers or of 
- frui 
Frat $i € in ie be pe picis Perianth 3 lines T or more * 
am., marked with the scar of the perenne 
lobes aa Aeon below the summit . 1. S. lanceolatum, 
