Victorian Plants. 61 



SANTALACEAE. 



298. Fruit beyond its base free from the calyx. 



Shrubs or trees ; leaves usually scattered and often minute ; 

 flowers extremely small ; fruit dry ; stalklet succulent, 

 berry-like. Figure 65. Exocarpos. 1301 



Fruit high-adnate to the calyx ... 299 



299. Leaves comparatively large, usually opposite. 



Shrubs or small seldom large trees ; flowers rather large, 

 corolla generally four-lobed; the lobes high-colored inside ; 

 anthers opening by longitudinal slits; fruit comparatively 

 large, outside often succulent, inside of bony hardness. 



Santalum. 1306 



Leaves small or minute, scattered ... ... ... 300 



300. Anthers opening by longitudinal slits ... ... 301 



Anthers opening by terminal slits ... ... 302 



301. Stamens and pistil usually within the same flowers. 



Herbs or half shrubs, not rarely of a pale or yellowish 

 hue, parasitic on the roots of other plants; leaves scattered 

 or some basal, always small and often narrow, seldom 

 rudimentary; flowers minute; calyx-tube extended beyond 

 the fruit, usually five-lobed ; fruit minute, dry. 



Thesium. 1308 



Stamens and pistil usually in separate flowers on 

 distinct plants. 



Leafless shrub ; flowers minute, those bearing pistils 

 solitarily scattered ; fruit succulent. 



Omphacomeria. 1309 



302. Each flower supported by two or three or four bracts. 



Shrubs ; leaves rudimentary or absent ; flowers minute ; 

 lobes of the corolla five, alternating with denticular 

 rudiments of calyx-lobes; anthers four-lobed; fruit rather 

 small, dry. Figure 64. Choretrum. 1310 



Each flower supported by one bract. 



Shrubs ; leaves rudimentary or absent ; flowers minute ; 

 lobes of the corolla four or five; anthers two-lobed; fruit 

 rather small, often succulent. Iieptomeria. 1313 



