74 Santalaceae 



plants, with entire leaves and perfect, green- 

 ish flowers, either terminal or axillary ; calyx 

 3-6-lobed; petals wanting; stamens as many 

 as the calyx lobes and inserted near their 

 bases or opposite them upon the disc ; fruit 

 in the only genus represented in the region, 

 drupe-like, crowned by the persistent style. 



Comandra Stem slender and leafy, 6-12 

 pallidaDC. inches tall, pale and glaucous. 

 Pale Co- Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, 

 acute or the lowest of those of the 

 stem, oblong-elliptic. Flowers small, less than \ 

 of an inch high with short pedicels, clustered 

 at the summit of the stems, calyx purplish or 

 sometimes nearly white ; fruit ovoid-oblong, 

 nearly half an inch high and crowned by the 

 very short upper portion of the calyx tube. 



On dry hillsides throughout the Rockies; 

 flowering during June. 



Comandra ^ tem s ^ ender ' usually quite sim- 



livida Rich, pie, 4-12 inches high. Leaves 



Northern thin, oval, obtuse or rounded at 



Comandra. ^ apex> narrowe( } at t h e base, 



