624 SANTALACEA. [Husanus. 
part of the perianth-tube. Ovary inferior; style short, conic ; 
stigma small, 2-4-lobed; ovules 2-4. Fruit a globose or turbinate 
drupe crowned at the summit by the annular scar of the perianth- 
segments ; exocarp more or less fleshy ; endocarp hard, often rugose. 
Embryo linear, in the centre of the albumen. 
A small ’genus of 5 species, all Australian except the one found in New 
Zealand. 
1. F. Cunninghamii, Benth. and Hook. f. ex T. Kirk, Forest 
Fl. t. 75, 76.—A small slender tree 10-25 ft. high; trunk seldom 
more than 9 in. diam.; bark grey. Leaves alternate or more rarely 
opposite, extremely variable in shape, 2-5 in. long, }-11n. broad, 
linear-lanceolate or lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong 
or obovate, acute or acuminate, narrowed into short petioles, quite 
entire, dark-green and glossy, veined, minutely punctate. Inflores- 
cence axillary, of few- or many-flowered racemes or cymes, rarely 
reduced to few-flowered fascicles. Flowers small, 4-+in. diam., 
brownish - green, hermaphrodite or unisexual by abortion, the 
females the smallest. Perianth-tube hemispherical; segments 
4-6, triangular, deciduous, each with a tuft of yellowish hairs at 
the base. Stamens the same number as the perianth-segments ; 
filaments short, slender. Disc 4-6-lobed. Stigma 2-4-lobed. 
Drupe 4-4in. long, narrow-turbinate, bright-red, crowned with 
the annular scar of the perianth-segments.—Santalum Cunning- 
hamii, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 223; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 247. 5. 
Mida, Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 5638, 575; Raoul, Chota, 42. Mida 
salicifolia, M. eucalyptoides, and M. myrtifolia, A. Cunn. Precur. 
n. 340, 341, 342. 
NortH Istanp: Lowland forests from the North Cape to Cook Strait, but 
local to the south of Rotorua. Sea-level to 2000 ft. Maire; New Zealand 
Sandal-wood. September—October. 
This differs from the Australian species of the genus in the alternate leaves, 
axillary inflorescence, and turbinate fruit. Cunningham constituted a separate 
genus for it under the name of Mida, and divided it into 3 species based upon 
the greater or lesser breadth of the leaves. But as leaves of all intermediate 
shapes can easily be found, and sometimes occur on the same branch, it is 
impossible to separate his species even as varieties. The wood is hard and 
dense, very strong and durable, and is occasionally used for ornamental turnery, 
inlaying, é&c. 
2. EXOCARPUS, Labill. 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate or rarely opposite, often 
reduced to minute scales. Flowers minute, hermaphrodite or 
unisexual by abortion, in small axillary spikes or fascicles, each 
flower sessile or nearly so in a notch of the rhachis or axillary to a 
minute scale-like bract. Perianth inferior, divided to the base into 
4-6 valvate segments. Stamens the same number as the perianth-seg- 
ments and inserted near their base; filaments very short and broad ; 
