1334 CXV. SANTALACE^. [Tlmium^ 



Flowers in little spikes or clusters or rarely solitary, each Subtended by a 



single seale-like bract often very deciduous 5. Leptomekia. 



Tkibb III. Anthoboleee. — Perianth inferior, the lobes divided to the broad base or dilated' 

 summit of the peduncle. 



Flowers dicecious, usually 3 or 4-merous, the female solitary, the males in 



clusters. Leaves alternate, linear-terete or minute and scale-like .... 6. Anthoeolus. 



Flowers polygamous, inflorescence and foliage of Leptomeria, or the leaves 



developed and flat ' 7. Exocakpus. 



1. THESIUM, Linn. 



(A Greek name for this or some similar plant.) 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth-tube adnate at the base, the free portion 

 campanulate or tubular, with 5 or rarely 4 persistent lobes, with a tuft of hairs 

 inside at the base of or behind the stamens. Stamens inserted near the base of 

 the lobes ; filaments short ; anthers with 2 parallel cells opening longitudinally. 

 Ovary inferior ; placenta filiform often flexuose, with 3 ovules suspended from 

 near the apex ; style more or less elongated with a terminal obtuse or capitate 

 stigma. Fruit a small nut, usually ribbed outside and crowned by the persistent 

 free portion of the perianth. — Herbs or small shrubs, with slender wiry stems. 

 Leaves alternate, usually linear. Flowers small, of a greenish-yellow, solitary or 

 in small cymes, pedunculate in the axils, but the peduncle usually adnate at the 

 base to the subtending leaf, with 2 bracts on the uhort free portion. 



The genus is widely dispersed over the temperate and warmer regions of the Old ^Yorld, the 

 species particularly numerous in South Africa. The only Australiun species appears to be the 

 same as an East Asiatic one. — Benth. 



1. T, australe (southern), R. Br. Prod. 353 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vi. 212. 

 A glabrous perennial, with ascending or erect wiry branches, rarely above 1ft. 

 high. Leaves linear, often above lin. long, but the upper ones much shorter 

 and more slender, and a few of the lowest short and broad. Peduncles 1-flowered, 

 very short, adnate at the base to the subtending leaf. Perianth scarcely above 1 

 line when 'in flower, cylindrical; lobes 5, about as long as the tube. Style reach- 

 ing to the level of the anthers, with a capitate stigma. Nut ovoid or nearly 

 globular, 1 to IJ line long, marked when dry with 8 to 10 longitudinal ribs more 

 or less branched into intermediate reticulations, and crowned by the small persis- 

 tent upper portion of the perianth. — A. DC. Prod. xiv. 653 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. 

 i. 837. 



Hab,: Moreton Bay, Daw.=on and Burnett Rivers. Common in many localities. 



I am unable to distinRuish from this species the T. Chinese, Turcz. ; A. DC Prod. xiv. 649, 

 from N. China, or the T. decurrens, BL, A. DC. i.e. 652, from Japan, Formosa, and Loo-choo. 

 Taking tha flowers at the sam8 age, I find the sime shape and proportions of the perianth-tube 

 and lobes in aU three. — Benth. 



2. SANTALUM, Linn. 



(From the Persian name of one species.) 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth-tube adnate at the base, the free portiort 

 campanulate or ovoid, lined with the disk which is entirely adnate but produced 

 between each two stamens into a spathulate or ovate triangular scale, the lobes 

 4 or rarely 5, with a tuft of hairs inside behind each stamen. Stamens inserted 

 at the base of the lobes, the filaments usually longer than the intervening scales ; 

 anthers 2-celled, the cells parallel turned inwards and opening in longitudinal 

 slits. Ovary semi-inferior, with an erect placenta with 2 or 3 adnate ovules free 

 only at the lower extremity, the placenta produced above them into a long point. 

 Style elongated, with a small 2 or 3-lobed stigma. Fruit a globular drupe, the 

 epicarp fleshy but not thick, marked above the middle or on the summit with a 

 circular scar left by the deciduous perianth-lobes, the endocarp hard and usually 



