232 cxxxm. SANTALACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Osyris. 



inferior; style short or long, stigma 3-4-fld. ; ovules 2-4, pendulous from a 

 short stout central placenta. Drupe globose or ovoid. Seed globose ; 

 embryo terete or with cotj'ledons dilated. Species 5 or 6, S. European, 

 African and Indian. 



0. arborea, Wall. Cat. 4035; leaves subsessile elliptic-lanceolate 

 -oblong or -obovate mucronate acute or acuminate base acute, male cymes 

 in axillary peduncled clusters umbels racemes or fascicles, fern, subsolitary 

 (1-3) on long slender pedicels, drupe subglobose. A. DC. Prodr. xiv. 63- ; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 399. O. Wightiana, Wall. Cat. 4036 ; Wight Ic. t. 1853 ; 

 Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 177 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 223 ; A. DC. I. c. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; from Simla toBhotan (exclusive of Sikkim), ascending 

 to 7000 ft. DECCAN PENINSULA; on the .Ghats, from the Concan southwards. 

 CEYLON ; in the Central Province, alt. 4-6000 ft. 



A glabrous (except var. ;8) shrub or small tree, black when dry ; branches acutely 

 angled, tips puberulous. Leaves 1-2 rarely 3 in. long, very variable in breadth, 

 thickly coriaceous, midrib and nerves prominent beneath, or the latter faint. Flowers 

 very minute. Drupe yellow, |-^ in. diam. 



Var. puberula, brabchlets and leaves beneath finely puberulous. Nilghiri Hills, 

 Jcrdon ; at Conoor, alt. 6000 ft., JBeddome. Central Province, Thompson (Brandis). 

 I have not seen specimens of this variety from the Central Province. The Sindh ? 

 plant (no doubt from Beluchistan) collected -by Stocks, cited as the same by Brandis, 

 appears to me to be a very different species. 



5. IZENSLOVIA, Blume. 



Parasitic shrubs with spreading, erect or twining branches. Leaves 

 alternate, thickish. Flowers very minute, mono3cious or dioecious, axillary 

 or the females with stamens ; males subracemose or capitellate ; fern, solitary 

 or few and clustered. Perianth-tube of male 0, of fern, adnate to the ovary 

 globose ovoid or oblong ; lobes 5-6, valvate. Stamens 5 or 6, inserted at 

 the base or middle of the lobes, short, 0, or reduced to starninodes in the 

 female fl. ; anthers didymous, with a few long soft hairs at the back. Disk 

 concave or convex. Ovary inferior; stigma subsessile, discoid or lobed; 

 ovules 2-3, pendulous from the top of a stout central column. Drupe ovoid, 

 obovoid, ellipsoid or subglobose ; inner wall of hard endocarp protruded 

 as 5-10 hard vertical plates into deep fissures of the stellately lobed seed. 

 Fmbryo linear. Species about 12, Indian, Malayan and Chinese. 



The characters of the 12 species described in the Prodromus, and which are chiefly 

 taken from Blume (Mus. Sot. Lugd. Sat. \. 243), are utterly insufficient, and from 

 the imperfection of specimens I am at a loss to identify the Indian satisfactorily with 

 the Archipelagan species. H. heterantha, Vidal Sinops. Fam. y. Gen. Plant. Filip. 

 t. 82, F, is Exocarpus latifolia t Br. 



1. H. g-ranulata, Hook.f. # Thorns. Herb. Ind. Or. ; branches pustu- 

 late, flowers sessile on the top of very short clustered peduncles whicht are 

 clothed with imbricating rounded bracts, the 4-5 upper of which form a 

 spreading involucre, males numerous, females 1 or few, fruit small obovoid, 

 pyrene 5-furrowed. A. DC. Prodr. xiv. 632 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 328. 



EASTEKN HIMALAYA ; Sikkim and Bhotan,alt. 4-7000 ft., Griffith (Kew Distrib. 

 4389), J. D. If. KHASIA MTS., alt. 5-6000 ft., J. D. H. $ T. T. 



A small parasitic shrub, with erect and spreading stout branches. Leaves 1-2 in. 

 long, from obovate to roundly spathulate, contracted into a distinct petiole, 5-9- 

 nervcd. Cluster* of peduncles very numerous, -^-^ in. long; bracts with mem- 

 brauous subciliate margins, upper largest. Flowers quite sessile ; perianth 5-lobed ; 



