622 Orber 109.— SANTALAOE^. 



P. flav^Boens Nutt. Branches opposite, sometimes verticillale, terete ; Irs. cu- 

 neate-obovate, S-veined, obtuse ; spikes axillary, solitary, about as long as tlw 

 leaves ; berries white, semi-transparent. — N. J. to III. (Lapham), and the S. 

 States. Stems 1 — l^ high, rather thiolc, much branched. Leaves 9 — 16" by 4 — 

 9", smooth and entire, on short petiole.^. Fls. small, sterile ones mostly 3-parted. 

 Berry with a viscous pulp adhering to the limb it touches until it strikes root. 

 A^ril. 



Order CIX. SANTALACEJ5. Sandalworts. 



Trees shrubs and herbs, with alternate, undivided leaves, with tlie calyx tube ad- 

 herent to the ovary, limb 4 to 5-cIeft, valvate in sestivation, the stamens as many 

 as the sepals, inserted at their base and opposite to them, an ovary 1-celled, with a 

 free central placenta bearing at top 2 to 4 suspended ovules, but in fruit drupaceous, 

 1-Beeded, crowned with tlie persistent calyx. 



Genera 20, species 200, natives of Europe, America, Australasia, Ac. The fragrant sandal- 

 wood is the product of Sautalum album, &c., of India. 



TRIBES AND OBKERA. 



I. BUCKLEYEjE. Pis. dioicious, tlie pistillate dicblamydcous, with no stamens. 



i Calyx lobes 4; petals 4, caducous. 5 stamens 4. Shrubs Buckleta. 1 



II. SANTALE^. Flowers perfect or polygamous, always monochlamydeous. (a) 



a Flowers in spikes or racemes. Drupe pyriform. Shrubs Pykulauia. 2 



a Flowers ia cymous urabe is. Nut ovoid. Half shrubby Comandba. 3 



1. BUCKLE^YA, Terr. (To S. B. Buckley, an active and successful 

 botanist.) Flowers $ 5 , the $ dichlamydrous ; outer (calyx) lobes 

 4, lanceolate ; inner (corolla) lobes 4, ovate, acute, 1-veined, caducous; 

 stamens ; style included, 4-lobed ; $, monochlamydeous ; lobes 4, 

 ovate, acute, valvate in bud, opposite the 4 stamens inserted at their 

 base ; disk concave, lobes 4, alternate with the sepals ; fruit oblong, 

 drupe-like, lO-furrowed, 1-seeded.— A shrub or small tree, with .sub- 

 sessile, entire Ivs., the sterile fls. clustered, pedicellate, the fertile solitary, 

 all terminal, small. 



B. distyohoph^Ua Torr. — Mts. of E. Tenu. Shrub with the slender twigs vel- 

 vety-puberulent, as well as the veins and flower-stalks. Lvs. ovate, acuminate, 

 9 to 18" long, thin, ciliate on the margin, obtuse at base, on very short petioles. 

 ^ fls. \i" broad, in the midst of caducous bractlets. S Fl. subtended by 4 

 bractlets. Fr. 8 to 9" long, narrowed at base into the short stipe. (Borya disty- 

 ohophyHa Nutt.) 



2. PYRULA'RIA, Mx. Oil-nut. (Diminutive of Pyrus ; its fruit 

 resembling a little pear.) Flowers dicecious ; calyx 5-cleft, subcam- 

 panulate ; disk 5-toothed, glandular, half-adherent to the ovary ; style 

 1 ; stigmas 2 or 3, sublenticular; drupe pyriform, 1-seeded, inclosed in 

 the adhering base of the calyx. — Shrubs with the habit of Celastrus. 

 Lvs. alternate, entire. Rac. terminal. 



P. piibera Mx. Shrub unarmed ; lvs. oval-oblong, acute, puberulent, pellucid- 

 punctate ; rac. spike-like, terminal. — Margins of mountain streams, Peun. to Ga. 

 Shrub 4^6f high. Root fetid. Leaves 2 — 3' by 1 — 1^', entire, acuminate, pe!- 

 iolate, veins prominent beneath. Howers small, greenish yellow. Calyx tube 

 short, nearly filled with the glandular disk in the 5 flowers, the segments reflexed 

 in the ? . Stamens alternate with the glands of the dislc, opposite to those of 

 the calyx. Drupe 7 to 9" long, 5 to 1" thick. May. (Hamiltonia oleif»ra 

 Muhl.) 



3. COMAN'DRA, Nutt. Bastard Toad Flax. (Gr. K<jfij/, hair, 

 avSpeg, stameus ; stamens connected to the petals by a tuft of hairs.) 



