336 FLORA OE TASMANIA. \Santalacea. 
A very remarkable genus, found in all parts of Australia, and one of the Australian tropical species also inha- 
bits the Malayan Islands ; there are also a New Zealand, and one or two Polynesian species. About a dozen Aus- 
tralian kinds are known to ma.— Trees, often conical, or shrubs, with jointed, furrowed, slender green branches and 
branchlets, and minute (rarely linear or broad flat) leaves. Eloicers very minute, in small axillary spikes or glome- 
rules, sessile. Perianth four- or five-parted, rotate, valvate. Stamens one opposite each lobe of the perianth, almost 
sessile. Stigma almost sessile. Fruit an oblong or globose one-seeded nut, seated on the baccate apex of the 
peduncle. (Name from e£w, outside, and Kapnos, fruit ; the swollen peduncle resembling the fruit.) 
1. Exocarpus cupressiformis (Lab. Voy. i. 115. t. 14) j arborea, rarais ramulosis, ramulis graci- 
libus teretiusculis, foliis nrinutis denticulfeformibus patulis, spicis breviter pedunculitis, nucibus globosis 
oblongisve kevibus. (Gunn, 538.) 
Hab. Common in most parts of the Island, but rare to the North-west.— (El. Sept.) {v. v.) "Na- 
tive Cherry" and "Cherry-tree" of the Colonists. 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia ; New South Wales and Victoria. (Cultivated in England.) 
A very common, ami. act ivdhv_ i (in m. variab « . -mall, pale-green, leafless tree or shrub, sometimes having 
a straight trunk, and conical, cypiY>s-likc head, :Jn t'ti-t liigh, at others having weeping branches, and again being a 
-aaill shrub, with fastigiate branches. — Branches very numerous, much divided, slender, nearly terete. — Leaves, mi- 
nute scales. Spikes 1-ljj line long, shortly peduncled. Nuts i inch long, globose or ovoid, the swollen peduncle 
oblong, scarlet, eatable, but austere. 
2. Exocarpus stricta (Br. Prodr. 357); frutex erectus fastigiatim ramosus, ramulis angulatis 
llexuosis Bubtriquetris rtriatis, foHia minutis denticukeformibus, spiculis glomeruliformibus subsessilibus, 
nucibus globosis kevibus, pedunculo incrassato albo. (Gunn, 539.) 
Hab. Common in poor land.— (El. Oct.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. New South Wales and Victoria. (Cultivated in England.) 
An erect bush, 3-5 feet high, withflexuous branches, and long, slender, acutely three-angled, striated branchlets. 
Leaves as in E. cupre^ifomtis. Spikes short, and almost sessile. Peduncle of the fruit small, white, transparent. 
. Prodr. 356) ; humilis, depressus, caule fruticoso procumbente, ramis 
ramulisque teretibus sulcatis, foliis minutis denticukeformibus, spiculis sessilibus glomeruliformibus, floribus 
4-fidis, nuce oblonga.— E. nanus, Nob. in Land. Journ. Bot. vi. 281. (Gunn, 317.) 
Hab. Alpine regions, not uncommon at elevations of 1500-4000 feet, Gunn. 
Distrib. Alps of Victoria ; Cobboras Mountain, Mueller. (Cultivated in England.) 
My Tasmaniai) specimens are very small, and not in flower; they resemble minute specimens of E. cupressi- 
formis, but the perianth is four-cleft. The nut is very small, ovoid, about H line long ; the plant appears to grow 
<|uite prostrate amongst stones, moss, etc. 
Gen. II. LEPTOMERIA, Br. 
Flores spicati, 1-bracteati, rarius solitarii et ebracteati. Perianthium rotatum, persistens, 4-5-parti- 
tum. Stamina 4-5, sub disco epigyno 4-5-lobo inserta. Stigma lobatum. Drupa coronata. — Erutices 
uphylU, v. foliis minimi*, de, tici'.heformibus ; floribus minimis; bracteis deciduis ; drupa plerumque baccata, 
Of this curious genus about twenty species are known, all of them confined to Australia and Tasmania, and 
the majority to the Swan River Colony. All are shrubs, leafless, or with minute scale-like leaves, and small axillary 
spikes of extremely minute flowers. Perianth rotate, four- or five-cleft, with as many stamens at the base of its 
lobes, inserted beneath a lobed epigynous disc. Stigma lobed. Drupe wiih an areola at the top, surrounded by the 
