712 SANTALACE.E. (SANDAL-WOOD FAMILY.) 



2. VlSCUm, Mistletoe. 



Flowers dioecious, Stayninate flowers : calyx-limb 4-cleft. Corolla 0- 

 Anthers 4, sessile, adnate to middle of calyx-lobes, oo -celled, oo -pored- 

 Pistillate flowers: calyx adherent to ovary, with obscurely 4-toothed, 

 short-limb. Petals 4, fleshy, scale-like, valvate. Berry 1-seeded; 

 stigma sessile, obtuse — Branches jointed at forks ; flowers green ; 

 leaves opposite. 



1, v. album, L. 5 -^ to .5; branches terete. Leaves leathery, 

 fleshy, oblong, obtuse, 5-Q-?ie7'ved, .02 to .04 long. Flowers 5-6 in 

 a sessile head, sessile; berry .007 in diameter, globular, wJiite — May 

 and June — On various trees ; Hermon ; Amanus, and northward. 



2. V. cruciatum, Sieb. 5 -3 to .5; branches terete. Leaves 

 leathery, fleshy, oblong, obscurely ^-nerved, .02 to .04 long. Flowers 

 24 in a.peduncled head, sessile; berry globular, red — April and May — 

 Ou Olive trees ; central and southern Palestine. On Crataegus; Gilead.~ 



S. ARCEUTHOBIUM, M. B. Arceuthobium. 



Flowers dioicious. Corolla 0. Starainate flowers sessile. Calyx 

 surrounded by a bipartite involucellum, 3-4-parted, the lobes anther- 

 bearing; anthers spreading, adnate, 1-celled, dehiscent by a slit. Pistil- 

 late floicers pedicelled; calyx adnate to ovaiy, ovate, compressed, gap- 

 ing at tip. Stigma sessile. Berry dry, separating elastically from the 

 pedicel, and shooting out its seed — Small, leafless, forked, much 

 branched parasites on species of Juniper. 



A. Oxycedri, D. C. 2^ .05 to .1, glabrous, tufted; branches 

 jointed, terete compressed. Leaves reduced to triangular, connate 

 scales forming a small, cup-like sheath at joints. Staminate flowers 

 sessile on the last joint; pistillate 1-2 together in the upper axils and. 

 terminal, short-pedicelled ; berries ovoid — September — Subalpine 

 Lebanon; Araanus; Akher Dagh, and northward. 



Order XCII. SAXTALACE^, R. Br. (Sandal- Wood Family.) 



Herhs, shrubs, or trees, vnth entire leaves, the Z-'^-deft 

 2?erigoiiiiim valvate in hud, its ttibe not distinct from 

 2?edicels and more or less connate with ovary, lohich contains 

 1 cell, and 2-4: ovules, suspended from the aj^edi of a stalk- 

 lilce, central ijlacenta arising from- the hase of the cell, hnt 

 the fruit alvmys 1-s.eeded — Flowers perfect or poljgamons- 

 dioecious. Stamens 4-5, inserted at base of lobes, opposite to 

 them. Style simple, stigmas lA. Fruit nut-like or drupe- 

 like; embryo small, at tip of copious albumen; radicle, 

 superior. 



1. THESIU-M. 2f 5 Flowers perfect.. Fruit a small nutlet. 



9. OSYFJS. (5 Flowers dioecious or polygamour'. Fruit a dry drupe. 



1. THESIIJM, L. Thesium. 



Flowers perfect. Perigonium salver-shaped or funnel-eliaped, 4-5- 

 eleft. Disk indistinct. Filament inserted at base of each lobe of perigoni- 



