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cent calyx and stamens, at length bursting irregularly. or longi- 
tudinally dehiscent. Seeds compressed. 
A. caudatum Lindl. Bot. Reg. xvii, under t. 1399. Rootstocks creep- 
ing, 6-12 inches long: leaves rounded-cordate with large rounded auricles, 
dark green, not marked with white, 2-4 inches broad, rather sparsely pu- 
bescent with short stiff hairs, obscurely crenulate and finely ciliate, on 
sparsely hairy petioles 3-10 inches long, remaining green until the next 
air are mature; flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves and thus becom- 
ing terminal, on slender peduncles 1-2 inches long, dark brown, the ovate 
lobes attenuate into slender appendages 1-3 inches long, more or less pu- 
bescent: filaments stout, the free apex of the connective much shorter than 
the anthers: styles united, equalling the stamens: seeds ovate, 144 lines 
long. In forests, Brit. Columbia to California. 
A. Hartwegi Watson Proc. Am. Acad x, 346. ? Rather stout, tufted, 
more or less florcose-pubescent: leaves usually large, 2-6 inches long, 
rather thick and marked with white above nearly smooth, deeply cordate 
with large rounded auricles, soniewhat acuminate, finely ciliate, on woolly 
pesiaics 4-8 inches long: peduncles 6-18 lines long: ovary about 6 lines 
road, white woolly: lobes of the calyx ovate, narrowed to linear append- 
ages 1-2 inches long: filaments rather stout, nearly free from the styles: 
anthers abouta line long. the produced connective setose, about a line Jong: 
ye short, nearly distinct, scarcely equalling the anthers: seeds ovate, 
2 lines long. In forests, southwestern Oregon to California. 
Orpen LXXXVI SANTALACEA R. Br. 
Pl. Nov. Hol. i, 350. (1810) 
Herbs shrubs or trees with alternate or opposite leaves with- 
out stipules and mostly small solitary or clustered axillary or 
terminal flowers. Calyx adnate to the base of the ovary or to 
the disk, 3-5-lobed, the lobes valvate. Stamens as many as 
lobes of the calyx and inserted near their bases, or opposite 
them upon the lobes of an annular disk. Ovary 1-celled: 
ovules 2-4, pendulous from the summit of the central placenta. 
Style cylindric or conic, sometimes wanting: stigma capitate. 
Fruit a drupe or nut. Seed solitary, ovoid or globose, without 
testa. Embryo small, apical, with copious albumen. 
1 COMANDRA Nutt. Gen i, 157. (1818.) 
Glabrous perennial herbs, mostly parasitic on the roots of other 
plants with alternate leaves and small perfect flowers in terminal 
and axillary bractless cymes. Calyx campanulate, the base of 
its tube adnate to the ovary, its limb 5-lobed, Stamens inserted 
at the base of the calyx-lobes and between the lobes of the disk, 
attached to the middle of the lobes by tufts of hairs. Anthers 
ovate, 2-celled. Fruit drupaceous, crowned by the persistent calyx. 
C. umbellata Nutt. 1. c. Stems slender, very leafy, branched, 6-18 
inches high: leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, pale green, acute or acut- 
ish at both ends, sessile, ascending, 6-15 lines long, the lower smaller: 
cymes several-flowered corymbose at the summit of the stems and often 
axillary also: peduncles slender, 3-12 lines long: pedicels very short: calyx 
greenish-white or purplish, about 2 lines high: style slender : drupe glubose, 
about 3 lines in diameter, crowned with the upper part of the calyx-tube 
