ORDER 110. SANTALACE.E. 291 



4. TETRANTHERA, Jacq. POND SPICE. Fls. as in Benzoin, but 

 the anthers arc 4-celled and 4-valved as in Sassafras. Drupe globular 

 (red). 5 Flowers yellow, precocious. February, March. 

 T. geniculi* ta Necs. Shrub 8 15f, with branches and brauchlcts very crooked aud 

 divaricate. Leaves small, oval to oblong. Swamps, S. 



OHDEII CIX. LORANTHACEJS. LOBANTHS. 



Shrubby plants, parasitic on trees, with thick, opposite, exstipulate leaves. 

 Flowers mostly diclinous, an adherent calyx of 2 8 lobes, with stamens of 

 the same number, opposite the calyx lobes. Ovary 1-celled, becoming a 

 fleshy fruit with one albuminous seed. (See Addenda.) 



PHORODENDRON, N. MISTLETOE. Fls. $ $ , in jointed spikes, 

 mostly 3-lobed. $ Anth. sessile on the base of each lobe, the 2 cells di- 

 vergent. ? Stig. sessile (no stamens). Fr. a pulpy, viscous berry. Herb- 

 age yellowish-green. Stems brittle, woody, firmly engrafted on the limbs 

 of oaks, elms, &c. 

 P. flavesccns N. Stems much branched, 1 li-f ; leaves wedge-obovate, thick, entire, 



as long as the spikes ; berry white, pellucid, sticking to the limb which it touches 



until it takes root. 



ORDER CX. SANTALACE^E. SANDALWORTS. 



Trees, sJirubs, and herbs, with alternate, undivided leaves, with the calyx 

 tube adherent to the ovary, limb 4-5-cleft, valvate. Stamens as many as 

 the sepals, and opposite to them. Ovary 1-celled, with a free central pla- 

 centa bearing at top 2 4 suspended ovules, but in fruit drupaceous, 1- 

 seeded, crowned with the persistent calyx. 



Half- .shrubby. Anthers connected to the sepals by a tuft of hairs COMANDRA. 1 



Shrubs. Anthers free. * Flowers 4-parted, with 4 petals in the 9 flowers BUCKLEYA. 2 



* Flowers 5-parted, all apetalous. Leaves alternate PYRULARIA. 3 



1. COMANDRA, N. BASTARD TOADFLAX. Calyx tube adherent, 

 limb 4- or 5-parted. Auth. 4 or 5, connected as above mentioned. Fil. on 

 a 5-lobed perigynous disk. Smooth plants, with herbaceous branches and 

 whitish flowers in small umbels. 



1 C. umbellata N. Flowers perfect ; branches strict, corymbed above ; leaves ob- 



lanceolate, subsessile ; umbels 3-flowcred, exceeding the leaves ; connecting hairs 

 yellow. Rocky woods. If. Leaves scattered, 9". June. 



2 C. Darfoya A. DC. Flowers dioecious ; branches short, leafy ; leaves elliptical, 



mostly opposite ; umbels 5-flowered, shorter than the leaves ; connecting hairs white. 

 Woods, S. : rare. 1 2f. The fertile plant unknown. 



2. BUCKLEYA, Torr. Fls. $ ? , the $ with a double calyx, the in- 

 ner (corolla) caducous, and without stamens. Sty. 4-lobed. $ Calyx sin- 

 gle, 4-lobed, with 4 stam. Fruit oblong, 10-furrowed, 1-seeded. t) Leaves 

 Bubsessile, entire. Sterile flowers clustered, fertile solitary. 



