Ginalloa. | LORANTHACER. 827 
surrounded with a thin dilatation in place of an involucre ; spikes 
from 1-4 in. long, glabrous, robust, arising from the forks of the 
branches and terminal between the 2 uppermost leaves; calyx-limb 
obsolete, if any; perianth-seements 3, minute, 3-angular, conni- 
vent (?) ; stigma obscurely conical, small; unripe berries elongate- 
ovate, smooth, truncate or crowned by the longer persistent perianth- 
segments. 
Haz.—In the tropical forests of South Andaman, on Artocarpus chaplasha. 
—Fl. Apr.-May.—1. 
SANTALACEZ. 
rior), 1-celled, with 2 to 5 ovules suspended from a free, central, 
erect placenta. Fruit an indehiscent nut or berry, l-seeded from 
abortion. Albumen fleshy. Embryostraight with a superior radi- 
cle, the cotyledons linear or oblong, convex, shorter than the radi- 
cle.-—Shrubs or herbs, rarely trees, terrestrial or sometimes parasitic, 
with alternate, rarely opposite, simple leaves. tipules none. 
Flowers usually small, green or purplish, in terminal or lateral heads, 
S. 
* Ovary inferior. 
_ + Placenta slender, bearing the ovules at the : 
Periantb-lobes and stamens 6 or 6 3 disk concave or convex, with 
out free mar ; drupes very small ; itical shrubs, with 
glabrous flo Gy eo ey. ren ts ocr ee ee 
P — and stamens 5 or 4; disk cup-shaped, 5-lobed ; 
pe pear-shaped, ; terrestrial shrubs or trees, wi ; 
hairy flowers . i ; — ‘ . ‘. ae Ee nT 
++ Placenta spindle-shaped, bearing the ovules near the 
6b 
ase. 
Perianth bell-shaped, lobes and stamens 4 or 5; disk conspicu- 
ously lobed; dru lobose; terrestrial trees ci 
while yo : i sf fs 2 ia ; ¥ . Santalum. 
* %*« Ovary superior. 
Inflorescence while young conspicuously imbricate-bracted ; flowers bina 
merous ; filaments very short, complanate co Sree 
Inflorescence with very deciduous minute bracts ; flowers 5-merous ; A 
filaments slender, exserted . fe ga ev Ceeperae, 
HENSLOWIA, Bl. 
Flowers monoecious, Free part of perianth 5- rarely 6-cleft, 
