622 Oedee 109.— SANTALACE^. 



P. flav^scens Nutt. Branches opposite, sometimes. yerticlUate, terete ; Its. cu- 

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

 leaves; berries white, semi-transparent. — N. J. to 111. (Lapham), and the S. 

 States. Stems 1 — li high, rather thick, much branclied. Leaves 9 — 16" by 4 — 

 9", smooth and entire, on short petioles. Hs. small, sterile ones mostly 3-parted. 

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

 April. 



Order CIX. SANTALACEiE. Sandalworts. 



li-ees shrubs and heris, with alternate, undivided leaves, with the odyx tube ad- 

 herent to the ovary, limb 4 to 5-cleft, 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-seeded, crowned with the persistent calyx. 



Genera 20, species 200, natiyes of Europe, America, Australasia, &c. The fragrant Bandal- 

 -woojl is the product of Santaluni album, &c., of India. 



TRIBES AND GENERA. 



I. BUCKLEYEJ3. Fls. difficious, the pistillate dichlamydeous, with no stamens. 



$ Calyx lobes 4 ; petals 4, caducous. iBtamcn34. Shrubs Bttckleta. 1 



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



a Flowers in spikes or racemes. Drupe pyrlform. Shrubs Pyrulaeia. 2 



a Flowers in "Cymous umbels. Nutovoid. Half shrubby Comandka. 3 



1. BUCKLE^YA, Torr. (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 ; 3 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. aistyohoph;J-lla Torr. — Mts. of E. Tenn. 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. 1^" broad, in the midst of caducous bractleta. S Fl. subtended by 4 

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

 chophylla Nutt.) 



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

 resembling a little pear.) Flowers dicEcious ; calyx 6-cleft, subcam- 

 panulate ; disk 6-toothed, glandular, halt-adherent to the ovary ; style 

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

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

 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, Penu. to 6a. 

 Shrub 4--6f high. Root fetid. Leaves 2 — 3' by 1 — 1^', entu'e, acuminate, pet- 

 iolate, -veins prominent beneath. JFlowers small, greenish yellow. Calyx tube 

 short, nearly filled with the glandular disk in the t, flowers, the segments refleied 

 in the 9 . Stamens alternate with the glands of the disk, opposite to those of 

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

 Muhl.) 



3. COMAN'DRA, Nutt. Bastard Toad Flax. (Gr. /cwfwj, hair, 

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



