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GENUS V. SANTALUM. 

 Tetrandria llonogynia. Sex: Syst: 



JDeriv. From the Persian word Sandal, signifying useful. 



GrEN. Ohae. Calyx campanulate, 4-cleft, lobes ovate or tri- 

 angular, base internally furnished with a small bundle of hairs 

 stretching towards the anthers: stamens 4, rarely 5, oppo- 

 site the lobes : filament ligulate or filiform : anther ovoid, 2- 

 celled, cells deeply bilocellate, dehiscing lengthwise by a single 

 cleft : disc concave : ovary inferior, 1-celled : style conical or 

 cylindric : stigmas 2 — 3 — 4 : placenta central, bearing pendulous 

 ovules, the same number as the stigmas : drupe globose or obo- 

 void, crowned with the cicatrix left by the fallen lobes of the 

 calyx : seed inverted : embryo cylindric-fusiform : radicle superior, 

 much longer than the cotyledons. — Trees or shrubs : leaves oppo- 

 site, seldom alternate, entire : ,cymes when the leaves are opposite 

 terminal and axillary : peduncles opposite or seldom alternate, 

 when the leaves are alternate lateral peduncles alternate : bracts 

 and bracteoles caducous. 



(1) S. ALBUM. (Linn.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XIV. p. 683.— Eoxb. flor. Ind. ed. Car. I. 

 p. 462. 



Bngrav. Eumph. Amb. II. t. 2. 



Spec. Chae. Tree : leaves ovate-elliptic, acute at the apex : 

 panicles - terminal and lateral, many-flowered : pedicels -nearly 

 equalling the tube of the calyx : drupe size of a large cherry, 

 turning black. 



Hilly tracts of the Peninsula. Mysore. There is a variety, 

 S. myrtifolivm, with lanceolate leaves, which grows in the Circar 

 mountains. It is figured in ' Eoxburgh's Coromandel Plants.' 



ORDER CXXXVII. HERNANDIACEiE. 



Flovrers monoecious, in threes in a leafy 4-leayed involuci-e, 

 intermediate one female, sessile, with an areolar repand- 

 truncate, persistent, calyculate 4-merous involucel, lateral 

 ones, male, pedicelled, 3-merous, not involucelled : calyx 

 herbaceous, tube short, narrow, in the female jointed, upper 

 part deciduous, limb in males 6-, in females 8 — 10-parted, 

 regular, lobes in 2 rows, 1-nerved, puberulous, valvate in 

 aestivation, inner ones a little narrower. — Male : stamens 3, 

 inserted at the throat of the calyx, placed before the outer 

 lobes, and shorter th^n them, erect-comiivent : filaments 



