Fmanus.] CXV. SANTALACEiE, 1387 



after flowering, leaving only a scarcely prominent circular scar enclosing a larger 

 terminal area than the persistent lobes of 7''. acuminatm. — Santaluin jHTnicamim, 

 F. V. M. in Trans. 'Viict. Inst. 1855, 41 ; Fragm. i. 86. 

 Hab.: 'Western Downs. , 



Eucarya Mmrayana, Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 100, with a woodcut, is most probably this 

 species. — Benlh. 



4. CHORETRUM, E. Br. 



(The name is derived from the Greek word signifying a rustic according to some, 



others say it is from the ventricose perianth.) 



Perianth-tube adnate, turbinate, slightly produced above the ovary, lined by 

 the truncate or sinuately 4 or 5-lobed disk, and the border of the tube more or 

 less prominent outside the base of the limb ; segments of the limb 4 or 5, of a 

 somewhat different texture from the tube, inflected or thickened at the end. 

 Stamens inserted near the base of the segments ; filaments short ; anthers 

 terminal, with confluent cells opening out in 4 valves. Ovary inferior, with an 

 epigynous disk lining the free part of the perianth-tube. Style very short, with 

 an entire or slightly 2-lobed stigma. Fruit a globular or ovoid drupe, crowned 

 by the persistent perianth-lobes, the epicarp succulent, the endocarp hard and 

 rather thick. — Shrubs with numerous slender or rigid apparently leafless branches, 

 the leaves all reduced to minute scales usually deciduous. Flowers minute, 

 solitary or in little clusters along the branches, surrounded by an involucre of 2 

 to 4 or more minute scale-like bracts. 



• The genus is limited to Australia. i , ,, 

 Flowers 2 to 5 together in shortly pedunculate or almost sessile lateral dis- 

 tant clusters 1. C gloiiieratum. 



Flowers solitary within each involucre. 



Branches slender terete. Outer rim of the perianth-tube scarcely 



prominent 2. C. laterijiorum. 



Blanches slender acutely angular. Outer, rim of the .perianth- tube . 



prominent 3. C. CaiidoUei. 



1. C. glomeratum (clustered), B. Br. Prod. 354 ; Benth. Fi. Austr. vi. 

 218. Au erect shrub, sometimes scarcely 1ft. high, sometimes almost abores- 

 cent, with numerous erect slender wiry angular branches. Leaves reduced to 

 minute subulate deciduous scales. Flowers smaller than in C. lateriflora, 2 to 5 

 together sessile and clustered on a common peduncle of |- to 1 line, each cluster 

 surrounded by 3 or 4 minute almost orbicular bracts. Perianth about J line 

 long, the broadly turbinate adnate tube not above half the length of the lobes, the 

 external margin very slightly prominent. Drupe when dry 2 to 4 lines long, 

 globular or slightly ovoid.— A. DC. Prod. xiv. 676 ; Miq, in PI. Preiss. i. 608 ; 

 Endl. Iconogr. t. 45. 



Hab.: Dalhy, Dr. T. L. Bancroft. 



2. C. lateriflorum (flower lateral), B. Br. Prod. 354 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 vi. 219. A shrub, with erect slender broom-like branches, terete and slightly 

 striate, the raised decurrent lines not nearly so prominent as in 6'. Candollei 

 and more continuous. Scale-like leaves very small, spreading and more persis- 

 tent than in that species. Flowers very shortly pedunculate along the ends of 

 the branches, solitary within each subtending bract but surrounded on the 

 peduncle by 4 nearly equal bracts and some smaller ones outside, all shorter 

 than the perianth-tube. Perianth scarcely 1 line long, the lobes about as long 

 as the adnate tube, the marginal rim of which is prominent round the base of the 

 lobes. — C. pauciflonim, A. DC. Prod. xiv. 676 ; Leptomeria aphylla, Sieb. PI. 

 Exs., not of E. Br. 



Hab.: Islands of the coast and on coastal lands. 



