Order 105. Santalacea. 285 



1. S ANT ALUM. Smooth trees, perianth adherent to the base 

 of the ovary with 4 or 5 lobes, stamens 5 or 4 with alternating 

 scales, style long, stigma 2 or 3-lobed. 



2. OSYRIS.- Shrubs with angular branches, perianth with 3 

 or 4 triangular lobes, stamens 4 or 5, stigma 3 or 4-lobed. 



1. SANTALUM. 



S. album. Sandalwood tree. Leaves opposite, ovate elliptic 

 acute at the base, petioles flat ; flowers in panicles, small, 

 brownish purple, drupe size of a large pea, dark purple or black, 

 shining. Chdndan. 



H. makes the flowers first straw-coloured, then blood-red, and the 

 drupe size of a cherry ; habitat from Poona southwards, elsewhere 

 planted. The Abbe Raynal describes it under the unromantic name 

 of the Sanders tree. Some authorities consider that the algum or 

 almug tree of Scripture (1 Kings x. 11 ; 2 Chron. ii. 8, &c.) was the 

 Sandal (Dictionary of the Bible), but Hooker thinks it was probably 

 either Pterocarpus santalinus, or Bombay blaokwood (Teachers' 

 Bible). The ancient Hindoos had no liking for the tree : Sir M. 

 Williams quotes from the " Hitopadesa " : " The root is infested by 

 serpents, the blossoms by bees, the branches by monkeys, the summit 

 by bears. In short, there is not a part of the sandal tree that is not 

 occupied by the vilest impurities." 



2. OSYRIS. 



0. arbor ea (O. Wightiana, D.). Leaves alternate oval, 

 fleshy, flowers minute green, the male and female on different 

 racemes or heads, drupe long-stalked, round, orange or red, 

 pretty. Lotal, popli. 



Hills at Sattara. Mahableshwar and Khandalla (Dr. Cooke). 

 Common on the Ghauts (D.). 



I noted that the leaves are covered with white bloom, and was long 

 before I could get this corroborated; but I believe that this bloom 

 goes off as the leaves get older. 



Note. G.'s Osyris peltata is Macaranga Soxburghii. 



ORDER 106. EUPHORBIACE^. The Spurge Family. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees, generally with milky and acrid juice, 

 leaves generally alternate, simple, and stipulate ; flowers small, 

 unisexual, unattractive, often surrounded by bracts or an in- 

 volucre ; perianth inferior with various glandular or scaly 

 appendages, often wanting, sometimes double, the inner series 

 being then often called petals ; stamens very various, anthers 

 2-celled, often twin ; ovary inferior, generally of 3 carpels 



