SANDALWOOD FAMILY. Santalaceae. 



SANDALWOOD FAMILY. Santalaceae. 



This is a very small family in this country, for they 

 prefer the tropics, and in those regions some are trees. 

 Ours are usually parasitic on the roots of their neighbors. 

 They have toothless, mostly alternate leaves, mostly 

 without leaf-stalks or stipules, and small flowers, with a 

 four- or five-lobed calyx and no corolla. The four or five 

 stamens are opposite the calyx lobes, at the edge of a 

 fleshy disk, and the ovary is one-celled and inferior, with 

 one style, developing into a one-seeded fruit. 



There are four kinds of Comandra, one of them European; 

 smooth, perennial herbs, with alternate leaves, and flowers 

 in clusters, without bracts. The calyx is more or less 

 bell-shaped, usually with five lobes, its tube lined with a 

 disk, the stamens inserted at base of the lobes and the 

 anthers attached to the lobes by tufts of hairs. 



This is a rather pretty plant, growing 



Pale Lomandra ... 



Comtndra p&llida from a few m ches to about a foot tall, 

 Flesh-color, branching and rather woody below, with 



greenish, purplish pale-green, smooth, slightly thickish, 

 Spring, summer rather stiff leayes whkh afe reduced to 

 Northwest, Nev., . , . t , '11 



Utah, Ariz. pinkish scales on the lower stem. The 



flowers are small, usually flesh-color, 

 thickish in texture, with slender pedicels, and form ter-j 

 minal, rather flat-topped clusters. The fruit, which isj 

 about the size of a small pea, is crowned by the remains ofl 

 the calyx, like a rose-hip. This is common on dry plains 

 and hillsides and is noticeable because of its pale and 

 somewhat peculiar coloring. 



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