Santalum.] SANTALACEA 913 
1809. Viscum articutarum Burm.; F. B. I. v. 226; E. D. 
. V. opuntioides F. I. iii. 764. 
Chota Nagpur. 
A pendulous branch-parasite. Hind. Pan, pidi; Santal. 
Katkom janga. 
Order CXIY. SANTALACEZ. 
- Trees, shrubs or herbs, usually semi-parasitic on roots. Leaves 
alternate or opposite, entire, sometimes scale-like or 0; nerves 
inconspicuous ; stipules 0. Flowers hermaphrodite or 1-sexual, 
regular, usually small or inconspicuous, in simple or compound 
cymes; bracts sometimes leafy, usually small; bracteoles 2, free 
or connate, subopposite, sometimes 1 or both obsolete. Perianth 
imple, green or coloured, superior or inferior ; limb 3-8-toothed, 
“lobed or -partite ; lobes with often a tuft of hairs behind anthers, 
Usually valvate. Stamens as many as and opposite the perianth- 
lobes, adnate above, rarely on, the perianth-base ; filaments filiform 
Llocular Ovary usually, at least ultimately, inferior; ovules 2-3, 
central column, rarely solitary and 
810. Santalum Linn. 
Trees or shrubs ; leaves glabrous, coriaceous, opposite, rarely 
ternate. Flowers hermaphrodite, axillary or in terminal, 
rarely 5-lobed ; lobes valvate, with a tuft of hairs on the face. 
Stigma 2-3-lobed. Frwit a subglobose drupe, annulate on the top 
