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2. Drapetes muscosa, Hook. fil.; caule elongato repente robusto, ramis erectis glaberrimis dense 
foliosis, foliis undigue dense imbricatis lineari-ligulatis obtusis marginibus apiceque ciliatis, floribus termi- 
nalibus solitariis. 
Has. Southern Island, and southern extreme of the Middle Island, Lyall. 
A much smaller plant than D. Dieffenbachii, pale green when dry, with densely imbricated, shorter, and rather 
broader leaves, less than a line long, and broader at the base.—I have seen only one or two fruits; they are solitary 
on the ends of short lateral branches. 
NAT. On». LXXVI. SANTALACEA, Br. 
Gen. I. EXOCARPUS, Lad. 
Perianthium 5-partitum, rotatum. Stamina 5, basi laciniarum inserta. Stylus brevissimus ; stigmate 
obtuso. Mua supera, corticata, l-sperma, pedunculo baccato inserta. Embryo axi albuminis inversus. 
A very remarkable genus, of often leafless plants, with jointed stems, that bear little scales, which are sometimes 
expanded into the appearance of leaves, but not in the only New Zealand species; they are abundant in Australia 
and Tasmania, and a few species are found in Norfolk Island and the Pacific Islands; but the genus is unknown 
elsewhere. The baccate peduncle is eaten and called “ Native Cherry” in Australia, where some kinds are arboreous. 
— Flowers polygamous, very minute, in axillary spikes. Perianth five- (rarely four-) parted. Stamens five. Style 
short, with a capitate stigma. Nut superior, placed on a fleshy swollen peduncle. (Name from ežo, outside, and 
«apros, fruit ; from the scarlet swollen peduncle resembling the fruit.) 
1. Exocarpus Bidwi/lii, Hook. fil.; frutescens, procumbens, ramulis teretibus sulcatis, folis mini- 
mis triangularibus squameformibus, floribus 6-10 spiculis brevibus crassis puberulis sessilibus 5-meris. 
Tas. LII. 
Has. Middle Island. Warrau mountains, 1000—1500 feet above the plain, Bidwill. 
A low shrub, 6-10 inches high, creeping amongst stones. Branches terete, grooved, bearing no other leaves 
than minute triangular scales. Flowers eight to ten, on short club-shaped puberulous peduncles. Perianth five- 
parted. Nut black, seated in a scarlet fleshy peduncle.— Very closely allied indeed to the Z. humifusa of the mountains 
of Tasmania, differing only in the perianth being five- instead of four-parted. —PLATE LII. Fig. 1, branch and 
flowers; 2, bud; 3, expanded flower; 4, branch and fruit; 5, section through nut and peduncle; 6, embryo :— 
all magnified. 
Gen. II. SANTALUM, Z. 
Perianthii limbus deciduus, 4-5-lobus. Stamina 4-5, glandulis totidem alternantia; filamentis dorso 
fasciculo pilorum v. glandula pilosa instructis. Stigma 3-4-lobum. Drupa subbaccata, apice marginata. 
The only New Zealand species forms a small tree, with alternate leaves, extremely variable in size and breadth. 
Branches angular, woody; bark pale. Leaves alternate, of young plants opposite and minutely dotted, shortly 
petioled, 2-4 inches long, varying from narrow linear-lanceolate to broadly obovate, veined. Flowers green, in 
axillary panicles, 4-4 inch broad. Perianth with a hemispherical tube and four or five ovate deciduous lobes. 
Stamens four to five, alternating with minute glands ; filaments with a tuft of hair at the base behind. Style short; 
stigma three- to four-lobed. Berry obovate, or turbinate, or clavate, $ inch long, truncate, crowned with the 
border of the perianth and persistent style. Zimbryo nearly as long as the albumen.—The other Species of this 
genus (which produces the Sandal-wood) are Asiatic, Australian, and Pacific Island plants. (Name, Arabic, 
Szandal.) 
1. Santalum Cunninghamii, Hook. fil. S. Mida, Hook. Ie. Plant. t. 568 et 565. Mida salicifolia, 
