1390 CXV. SANTALACEiE. 



7. EXOCARPUS, Labill. 

 (Eeferring to the fleshy pedicel resembling a fruit.) 

 Flowers hermaphrodite or males by the abortion of the ovary. Perianth free, 

 divided to the broad base into 5 rarely 4 segments, slightly concave at the end. 

 Stamens inserted near their base ; anther-cells distinct, adnate to a very short 

 broad filament and either nearly parallel and turned inwards, or divergent and 

 marginal opening longitudinally. Ovary free, thick fleshy and somewhat conical, 

 reduced in the male flowers to a flat disk. Stigma sessile, rather small, entire or 

 obscurely lobed. Drupe or nut ovoid or nearly globular, resting on the enlarged 

 usually succulent pedicel, the .epicarp thin and not readily detached from the 

 crustaceous or hard endocarp, the perianth-lobes either persistent round the base 

 of the fruit or deciduous leaving the enlarged apex of the pedicel truncate. Seed 

 erect, with a very thin testa ; albumen copious ; embryo minute near the apex, 

 slightly divided at the lower end into 2 minute cotyledons. Trees or shrubs. 

 Leaves alternate or rarely opposite, often reduced to minute scales or very 

 deciduous, rarely enlarged and persistent. Flowers minute, in small axillary 

 spikes sometimes reduced to sessile clusters, each flower sessile or nearly so, in a, 

 notch of the rhachis or in the axil of a minute scale-like bract, one only or rarely 

 2 or 3 in the spike fertile with the pedicel rapidly enlarged, the others falling off 

 without any enlargement of the semi-abortive ovar}'. 



Of the following species one extends over the Eastern Archipelago, the others are 

 endemic. Some of the leafless species closely resemble some species of Leptonteria, but are 

 at once distinguished by the free ovary.-- Benth. 



Spilses cylindrical, mostly shortly pedunculate. 



Leaves ovate, fiat, 1 to 2in. long 1. E. latifoUa. 



Leaves reduced to minute tooth-like spreading persistent scales ... 2. i'. ciqjn'ssifurmis. 



Leaves linear-subulate, 1 to 2 lines long and deciduous, or rarely rather 



longer and peisistent 3. £. spartea. 



Spikes very shoit and scarcely pedunculate, the rhachis pubescent. 



Branches stout, often spinesoenl. Leaves reduced to minute ovate 



deciduous scales i. E. apliylla. 



1. S. latifolia (leaves broad), R. Br. Prod. 356 ; Benth. FL Austr. vi. 228. 

 "Oringorin," Eockhampton, Thozet. A small tree, the young parts slightly 

 hoary with a minute stellate or almost scaly pubescence. Leaves alternate, 

 petiolate, from broadly ovate to oval-oblong, very obtuse, coriaceous, with several 

 more or less distinct nerves diverging from the base, 1 to 2in. long. Spikes 

 rather slender, mostly about ^in. long, shortly pedunculate, solitary or several in 

 a short raceme in the upper axils. Flowers 5-merous or rarely 4-merous, not 

 closely packed. Fruit ovoid, 3 to 4 lines long, on a thickly turbinate truncate 

 pedicel of above 2 lines. — A. DC. Prod. xiv. 088 ; E. miniata. Zipp. and E. 

 luzonionsis, Presl ; A. DC. I.e. ; V. ovata, Schnitzl. Iconogr. ii. t. lOB*'''". 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, Hcmte ; Keppel Bay and Shoal Bay, 

 B. Brown; Wide Bay, Bidioill- Burdekin River, F. v. Mueller; Port Denison, I'iualan] 

 liookingham Bay and Roolihampton, Dallachy ; Bowen lliver, Bowman; Kennedy District 

 Daintree (with leaves 2Jin. long and broad); common from the Tweed to the Gulf of 

 Carpentaria. 



The species is generally dispersed over the Eastern Archipelago to the Philippine islands. 



Wood fragrant, dark colored, coarse in grain and hard ; useful in cabinet work — Bailey's 

 Cat. Ql. Woods, No. 355. 



2. IS. cupres,siforinis (Cypress-like), Labill. Voy. i. 155, t. 14 ; Bvnth. Fl. 

 Austr. Vi. 229. "Denjumgah," Taromeo, Shirley. " Por-nu-poy," Mt. Cook, 

 Both. "Tchimmin dillen," Stradbroke Island, Watlins. Usually a tree of 

 about 20ft., the very numerous green wiry rigid or filiform apparently leafless 

 branches sometimes collected in a dense conical head, sometimes loose and. 

 pendulous at the extremities, all terete but more or less furrowed. Leaves reduced 

 to minute alternate scales. Flowers minute, in little terminal or lateral very 



