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Brandis For. Fl. 390, t. 46 and Ind. Trees 547; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Man. 
t. xxv, fic. 1; Trimen FI. Ceyl. III. 461; Prain Beng. Pl. 908; Cooke 
Fl. Bomb. II. 543; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 202; Koord. Exkurs. F1. 
Jav. II. 658. HH. conferta, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 440 and Ed. Carey and 
Wall. I. 460; Kurz For. Fl. IT. 331; Schlecht. in DC. l.c. 612. 24. 
arborea, Roxb. ll.c. 441 and 461; Schlecht. l.c. 611; Wall. Cat. 4027. 
i. ferruginea, A. Rich. Monog. Elzagn. 387, 404; Schlecht. lc. 610; 
Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 1. 980; Wall. Cat. 4029. #. Thwaitesii and 
Wallichiana, Schlecht. l.c. 611, 612. H. Kologa, Schlecht. 1.c. 611; 
Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 224. 
Prenane: Maingay K.D. 1312!; at Government Hill, 750 m., 
Curtis 904!; Ridley!; King’s Collector 5214!.—Duistris. India, 
Ceylon, Malay Archipelago, China. 
Ridley says that the plant is only introduced and run wild in Penang, but 
in view of its wide distribution in India and the Archipelago, it seems best to 
describe it here. 
Family CVIIT. SANTALACEA. 
Trees, shrubs or herbs, many being parasitic or semi-parasitic 
on the branches or roots of other plants. Leaves alternate or op- 
posite, entire, sometimes scale-like or 0, exstipulate. Inflorescence 
various; flowers inconspicuous, usually bracteate and bracteolate, 
regular, 1—2-sexual. Perianth superior or partly inferior, 3—8- 
lobed—toothed or -partite. Stamens as many as and opposite to the 
perianth lobes, attached to or above the perianth-base; anthers 2- 
celled. Disk epigynous or perigynous. Ovary l-celled, inferior; 
ovules 2—3, adnate to or pendulous from a central column; style 
short; stigma entire or 3—-6-lobed. Fruit a nut or drupe. Seed 
globose or ovoid, rugose or sulcate; testa thin or wanting; albumen 
copious, fleshy: embryo usually terete; radicle superior.—DiIstTRip. 
About 240 species, in temperate and tropical regions; genera about 
23. 
Erect or climbing, usually parasitic shrubs; flowers 
minute, in short racemes; drupe small... .. 1. HENstowra. 
Trees, often spiny ; flowers in short catkin-like spikes ; 
drupe large 50 ae -. 2. SCLEROPYRUM. 
Genus to be transferred to Opiliacee—CHAMPEREIA. 
1. Hernstowr14, Blume. 
Parasitic shrubs with spreading, erect or twining branches. 
Leaves alternate, petiolate, thickish. Flowers very minute, mone- 
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