712 ■ SANTALACEiE. (sANDAL-WOOD FAilll.Y.) 



2. VI SCUM, Mistletoe. 



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

 Anthers 4, sessile, adnate to middle of calj'x-lobes, oo -celled, co -pored- 

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

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

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

 leaves opposite. 



li V, albiiin, L. 5 -^ ^^ .5; branches terete. Leaves leather}'-, 

 fleshy, oblong, obtuse, b-Q-nerved, .02 to .04 long. Flowers 5-6 in 

 n sessile headT 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, obscurehj '^■nerved, .02 to .04 long. Flowers 

 24 in iipeduncled head, sessile; berry globular, red — April and May — 

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



fi. ARCEITTHOBIUM, M. B. AncEUTHOBimr. 



Flowers dioecious.- Corolla 0. Staminate Jloiccrs sessile. Calyx 

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

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

 late Jfoicers pedicelled; calyx adnate to ovary, 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 j^arasites on species of Juniper. 



A. Oxycedri, D. C. 71 .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 upj^er axils and 

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

 Lebanon; Amanus; Akher Dagh,. and northward. 



OrdePv XCII. SAXTAL.ACEiE, B. Br. (Sajsdal-Wood Family.) 



Herbs, sJiruhs, or trees, loith entire leaves, the Z-^- cleft 

 jjerigonium valvate hi hud, its tube not distinct from 

 pedicels and more or less connate with ovary, which contains 

 1 cell, and 2-4 ovides, suspended from the apex of a staUc- 

 Wke, central placenta arising from the base of the cell, but 

 the fruit ahoays 1-seeded — Flowers perfect or polygamous- 

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

 them. Style simple, stigmas 1-4-. Fruit nut-like or drupe- 

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

 superior. 



I. TIIESIU^^. 2f 5 ^'^'"'^'"^ perfect. Fruit a small nutlet. 



a. OSYPJS. -5 Flowers clirRcioiis or polygamous. Fruit a dry drupe. 



1. TMJESIUM, L. Thesium. 



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

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



