724 



CCXIV SANTALACE^E. 



Myoifhylos. 



Flower seen from the back 

 (mag.). 



Tin. "iu in intermedium. 



Thetium. 



Fruit cut vertically 

 (mag.). 



T/iesium. 



Placenta bearing 3 ovules, 



of which one produces the 



embryonic sac. 



narrow, frequently short and squaniose, rarely petioled ; 

 stipules 0. INFLORESCENCE terminal when the leaves are 

 opposite, usually indefinite when the leaves are alter- 

 nate, and then flowers in a spike or head, or in small 

 extra-axillary cymes with the peduncle united with the 

 floral leaf, or sometimes solitary. FLOWERS $ or polygamous or diclinous, white 

 green dirty yellow or red, often minute ; Iracteoles usually 2, lateral, situated within 

 the bract or the floral leaf accompanying the solitary flower, or the lateral flowers 

 of the cyme ; pedicels 0, or short, and continuous with the perianth. PERIANTH 

 single, tube often merging into the receptacular cup (calycode), which is often 

 prolonged beyond the ovary; limb 5-4-3-lobed, valvate in aestivation, lobes 

 caducous or persistent, often bearded in the centre of the inner surface. STAMENS 

 opposite to the perianth-lobes, and inserted at their base or in the middle; 

 filaments short ; anthers basi- or dorsi-fixed, introrse, 2-celled, dehiscence longi- 

 tudinal, sometimes 4-locellate and opening above by a large orifice (Choretrum). 

 DISK epigynous, often apparent, sometimes dilating into a lobed plate, the lobes 

 alternate with the stamens. OVARY inferior, 1 -celled, or free when young, and 

 finally united with the receptacular cup or calycode (Santalum), sometimes adherent 

 by the base only to the receptacular cup (Anthobolus) ; style included, entire, 2-3-4-5- 

 lobed, lobes alternate or opposite to tj?e stamens; placenta basal, central, erect, 

 cylindric ; ovules 2-3-5, pendulous from the top of the placenta, naked, i.e. without 

 coats; embryonic sac protruding from the nucleus, recurved, developing the embryo 

 and albumen outside the nucleus. FRUIT a nut, rarely a berry, indehiscent, epicarp 

 thin, mesocarp usually hardened ; endocarp pulpy when young, then drying, separa- 



