914 BENGAL PLANTS. [Santalum. — 
albumen copious; embryo linear, terete, straight or nearly so in 
the centre of the albumen ; radicle “saa cotyledons. 
1810. Sanranum atBum Linn.; F. I. i. 442; F. B. I. v. 20]; 
E. D. s. 790. 
W. Bengal; Chota Nagpur. 
A small evergreen tree. Vernac. Chandan. 
Order CXY. EUPHORBIACEZX. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, often with milky juice. Leaves alter- 
nate or opposite, rarely divided or compound; stipules usually 
co 
a bud-protecting sheath; glands sometimes present at apex of 
leaf-stalk or base of leaf-blade. Flowers usually small, often 
minute, always 1-sexual; inflorescence various, usually composite, 
sometimes (Huphorbia) of single, naked, 1-stamened flore ts within 
a perianth- like involucre surrounding a solitary pistil, more often 
escence centripetal, axillary, or racemose, the su 
divisions eymose, sometimes wholly cymose in terminal, dichotow 
mou 
panicles, or reduced to simple clusters or solitary florets; 
ate and forming an A Se bracteoles often 2 within 
each bract, or numerous in the more open cymes. Perianth often 
small, sometimes ae a often dissimilar in the two sexes 
usually simple, calycine, with segments valvate or imbrica 
sometime: es celvelns ie 2-seriate, imbricate, with segments all 
ilar or occasionally ee IT rarely double, the inner then of 
4-5 small seale-like or very rarely conspicuous petals, longer that 
alge ceitonels and generally contorted-imbricate. orus 
sometimes forming an intrastaminal disk or with disk-glands of 
-lobes alternate with stamens of the outer series. Stamens very 
various, sometimes solitary or fewer than, sometimes as many 
the sepals or petals, often indefinite, in a few very many ; filaments 
free or connate; anthers 2-celled, often didymous; dehiscence? 
longitudinal, transverse or porous. Rudiment of ovary present 
absent. 9 Sepals usually rather larger and less connate than 
males. Petals sometimes smaller and less often present than i? 
YPo; 
Staminodes often present but rarely constant. Carpels Penni a 
in a sessile or stipitate ovary, usually 3, rarely 2, som 
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