Pyrularia.] cxxxm. SANTALACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 231 



4-5000 ft., J. D. H. Mishrai Hills, in Upper Assam, Griffith. KHASIA MTS., alt. 

 4-5000 ft., Wallich, &c. 



A large or small thorny deciduous leaved tree ; branches stout, youngest villous ; 

 buds large, of pale broad silky rounded imbricating scales. Leaves 3-7 in., rather 

 fleshy, rarely obovate-oblong, quite entire ; nerves .few, very oblique, sunk above, very 

 prominent beneath, petiole \-% in. Male racemes 1-3 in., terminal and axillary ; 

 flowers pedicelled, about in. diam., ebracteate. Perianth-lobes triangular, acute. 

 Fl.fem. Ovary clavate, pubescent ; style short. Drupe 1^-2 in. long, narrowed into 

 the stout peduncle, crowned with the perianth-lobes ; epicarp tough ; sarcocarp 

 glutinous, traversed by vessels; endocarp globose. 



3. SANTAX.UHX, Linn. 



Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, rarely alternate, coriaceous. 

 Flowers axillary or in terminal trichotomous paniculate cymes, 2-sexuaL; 

 bracts minute. Perianth-tube adnate to the base of the ovary, campanulate 

 or ovoid; lobes 4, rarely 5, valvate, with a tuft of hair on the face. Stamens 

 5-4, short, united at the bases of the lobes. Disk of scales between the 

 stamens. Ovary at first free, at length half-inferior ; style elongate, 

 stigma 2-3-lobed ; ovules 2-3, inserted below the summit of a long acumi- 

 nate central free column, reflexed. Drupe subglobose, top annulate by the 

 deciduous perianth. Seed subglobose ; embryo terete, slender. Species 

 about 8, Indian, Malayan, Australian and Pacific. 



S. album, Linn. Sp. PI. 497 ; leaves elliptic- ovate or ovate-lanceolate 

 acute or subacute base acute, panicles terminal and lateral, pedicels about 

 equalling the perianth- tube. A. DC. Prodr. xiv. 683 ; Roxb. Fl. 2nd. i. 442, 

 and Ed. Carey &f Wall. i. 462 ; Grab. Cat. Bomb. PL 1 77 ; J)alz. fy Gibs. 

 JBomb. Fl. 224 ; Brand. For. FL 398 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 329 ; Beddome Fl. 

 St/lv. t. 256 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 321 ; Diet. Sc. Nat. t. 5 (except the 

 hairs), copied in Spach Hist. Veg. t. 25; ILayne Arnz: Geivachs. x. t. 1 ; 

 Bentl. 8f Trimen Med. PL iii. t. 292 ; Griffith in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 59, 

 t. 1-3 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3235. S. myrtifolium, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 444, and Ed. 

 Carey 8f Roxb. i. 464. S. verum, Linn. Mat. Med. 102. Sirium myrtifolium, 

 Roxb. Cor. PL i. t. 2 ; Fleming in As. Research, xi. 181 (Syrium). Sanda. 

 lum album, Rumph. Amb. ii. 42/t. 11. Chandana, Jones in As. Research- 

 iv. 253. 



DECCAN PENINSULA; from near Poona on the west and Midnapoor on the east, 

 southwards, on dry hills, ascending to 3000 ft.; cultivated elsewhere. 



A small evergreen glabrous tree. Leaves opposite, 1^-2 in. long, pale brown 

 when dry, thin, narrowed into a slender petiole ^ | in., glaucous beneath ; nerves 

 faint. Racemes much shorter than the leaves, pedicels opposite ; flowers ^ in. diam., 

 at first straw-cold., then blood-red, inodorous even when bruised. Drupe globose, 

 size of a cherry, black when ripe, flesh juicy ; endocarp hard, with 3 short ribs from 

 the tip downwards. The S. myrtifolium of the Coucan with narrower undulate leaves 

 and less scented wood is regarded by Roxburgh as a very distinct species, and by 

 De Candolle as a variety. Brandis, however, unites them, and I follow him as the 

 latest Indian authority. Roxburgh's dried specimens show no character. 



4. OSYRIS, Linn. 



Glabrous shrubs ; branches angular. Leaves alternate. Flowers small, 

 axillarv, solitary or cymose, polygamous. Perianth-tube solid in the male 

 n., in the fern, adnate to the ovary ; lobes 3-4, triangular, valvate, with a 

 tuft of hair on the face. Stamens 4-5, short, inserted at the base of the 

 lobes ; anther-cells separate. Disk angled between the stamens. Ovary 



