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Stamens 3 or 4, inserted at the base of the perianth -lobes ; anther- 

 cells distinct. Disk angular. Ovary inferior, sunk in the perianth- 

 tube, style short, stigmas 3-4-fid. ; ovules 2-4, pendulous 

 from a short stout central placenta. Fruit a globose or ovoid 

 drupe. Seed globose, solitary. Species 5 or 6, in S. Europe, Africa 

 and India. 



O. arborea, Wall Cat. 4035 ; Royle 111. 322 ; Brandis For 

 Fl. 399 ; Ind. Trees 554 ; F. B. I. v, 232 ; Watt E. D. ; Kanjilal 

 For. Fl. (ed. 2), 340 ; Gamble Man. 588 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 442 y i, 

 144 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 555. 



A large usually glabrous shrub ; young branches sharply triangular, 

 puberulous at the tips. Leaves subsessile, coriaceous, glaucous, 

 becoming black when dry, 1-2 in. long, elliptic or oblong-lanceolate 

 or obovate-oblong and mucronate, base cuneate. Flowers minute, 

 polygamous (male and 2-sexual), yellowish-green. Male-flowers 

 shortly stalked, arranged in long-peduncled 5-10 flowered umbels or 

 panicles. Bisexual flowers solitary in the axils, the peduncles elonga- 

 ting and drooping in fruit. Perianth 3-lobed. Stamens 3, opposite 

 the perianth -lobes and alternate with the lobes of the fleshy disk. 

 Drupe subglobose, -J in. in diam., yellow or red when ripe. 



Dehra Dun and Siwalik range, and in the Sub-Himalayan tracts east- 

 wards. Flowers Dec. -April. DISTBIB. : Outer Himalayan ranges 

 from the Sutlej to Bhutan, up to 7,000 ft. (but not in Sikkim) ; ex- 

 tending to Central and S. India, Ceylon and Upper Burma. 



.SANTALUM ALBUM, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 442 ; F. B. I. v, 231 ; Watt 

 Comm. Prod. Ind. 976 : Brandis Ind. Trees 553 ; Gamble, Man. 585 ; 

 Prain Beng. PI. 914 ; Cookz Fl. Bomb, ii, 555. Vern. Chandan 

 (Sandalwood Tree). A small glabrous evergreen tree with drooping 

 branches. The yellowish-brown strongly-scented heartwood con- 

 stitutes the well-known sandalwood of commerce. The tree is indi- 

 genous in the Western Peninsula southwards from Nasik and the N. 

 Circars, cultivated elsewhere. 



XCIX. EUPHORBI AC E JE, 



Herbs, shrubs or trees, often with milky juice. Leaves usually 

 alternate, rarely divided or compound ; stipules usually small, 

 caducous or persistent, rarely connate in a bud-protecting sheath, 

 sometimes replaced by glands or thorns. Flowers usually amall 

 or minute, always 1 -sexual ; inflorescence various, usually 



