THE APETALOTJS ORDERS. 



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having the foliage and shoots covered with scurf, by the ascending 

 albuminous seed, and the persistent tube of the calyx, which, al- 

 though free from the ovary, becomes succulent, like a berry in 

 fruit, and constricted at the throat, inclosing the crustaceous ache- 

 mum ! Ex. Eleagnus, Shepherdia ; cultivated for their silvery 

 foliage. The fruit is sometimes eaten. 



867. Ord, Sanlalaceae (the Sandal-wood Family). Trees, shrubs, 

 or sometimes herbs ; with alternate entire leaves, and small (very 

 rarely dicecious) flowers. Calyx-tube adherent to the ovary ; the 

 limb four- or five-cleft, valvate in aestivation ; its base lined with a 

 fleshy disk, the edge of which is often lobed. Stamens as many 

 as the lobes of the calyx, and opposite them, inserted on the edge 

 of the disk. Ovules several, destitute of proper integuments, pen- 

 dulous from the apex of a stipe-like basilar placenta. Style one. 

 Fruit indehiscent, crowned with the limb of the calyx. Seed albu- 

 minous. Embryo small. Ex. Comandra, Pyrularia, &c. The 

 fragrant Sandal-wood is obtained from several Indian and Polyne- 

 sian species of Santalum. The large seeds of Pyrularia oleifera 

 (Buffalo-tree, Oil-nut) would yield a copious fixed oil. 



1004 1003 1007 1005 



868. Ord, NyssaceflB (the Tupelo Family). Trees, with dioacio- 

 polygamous flowers, differing from the last in the solitary ovule 

 suspended from the summit of the cell, and furnished with integu- 

 ments in the ordinary manner. Style one, stigmatose down one 



FIG. 1003. Branch of Comandra umbellata. 1004. Enlarged flower laid open. 1005. Verti- 

 section of a flower. 1006. One of the segments of the calyx, enlarged, showing the tuft of 

 hairs which connects its surface with the anther ! 1007. The fruit, reduced in size. 



