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cotyledonibus multo longiore. — Arbores fruticesve glabri. Folia opposita v. rarius 

 alterna, petiolata, integerrima, coriacea v. subcarnosa, pennivenia sed costa sola saepius 

 conspicua. Flores quam in generibus affinibus saepius majores, in axillis superioribus 

 V. ad apices ramorum tricliotome pauiculati, paniculis laxiusculis at saepius foliis brevi- 

 oribus V. interdum ad racemos simplices reductis. Bracteae inconspicuas. (H. & B.) 



S. freycinetianum Gaud. Bot. Voy. Freyc, p. 442, tab. 45. — Tree 15-25 ft. 

 high. Leaves opposite, ovato-elliptico- or obovato-oblong, 2/'2-3X i J4~i/^ in., on shoit 

 petioles of 1-2 lines, somewhat obtuse at both ends, chartaceous, glabrate or slightl}' 

 ocbraceous underneath. Cymes paniculate, 1^2-2 in. long terminal and in the axils 

 of the uppermost leaves, the flowers almost sessile in clusters of 3-9. Bracts short, 

 deciduous. Perigone dull-red, campanulate, the rather acutely ovate lobes as long as 

 the tube or longer. Disk lobes short and broad, almost emarginate. Anthers longer 

 than the filaments, included. Style little shorter than the perigone, shortly 3-4-cleft, 

 the lobes capitellate. Drupe ovoid, 5 lines long, with a glaucous bloom when young 

 and a truncate apex; the putamen smooth. 



The iliahi of the natives, who used the powdered heart-wood, laau ala, as a 

 perfume. The early traffic in sandal-wood from these islands led to the destruction 

 of so many trees that the ilialii is now rare; it is found here and there as small trees, 

 hardly large enough to yield mucli of the prized wood. In New Zealand a species of 

 Santalum has the Maori name Main', the name of the fragrant Maile of the land of 

 their origin. In some of the folds of the kapa in the Museum derived from the 

 Hawaiian Alii I have found traces of the powdered sandal-wood. 



5Jingiber Adanson. Fam. ii, 66. — Cal3'x membranaceus v. hj-alinus, tubu- 

 losus, breviter 3-lobus. Corollas tubus cylindraceus, superue paruni dilatatus; lobi 

 augusti, posticus erectus, incurvus, concavus, laterales patentes. Staminodia lateralia 

 basi cum labello connata v. praeter lobos laterales labelli o; labellum v. labelli lobus 

 medius lateralibus major, integer v. breviter 2-fidus, interdum crispulus; anthera in 

 filamento brevi erecta, oblonga, loculis inter se paruni distantibus, counectivo ecal- 

 carato ultra loculos in appendicem linearem v. subulatani producto. Ovarium 3-locu- 

 lare, cw-ovulatum; st3'lus filiformis, stigmate ultra loculos antherae saepius parvo 

 subgloboso. Capsula globosa v. oblonga, pericarpio hand crasso, irregulariter rupta. 

 Semina saepius majuscula, oblonga, arillo lacero laciuiis nunc brevibus, nunc elouga- 

 tis semen longe superantibus. — Rbizoma horizontale, tuberosum. Caules foliati 

 variant floriferi v. steriles. Thyrsi spiciformes, densi, strobiliformes v. longiusculi, 



