Ord. 72. SANTALACEJE. 



1. COMANDRA, Nutt. 



1. COMANDRA UMBELLATA, Nutt. 



Hab. Common on the prairies of Oregon and Washington Territory; 

 also in Northern California. Most of the specimens are suffrutescent. 

 [Some of them are of C. pallida, A. DC. Prodr. 14, p. 636.] 



Ord 73. LAUEACEA 



1. TETRANTHERA, Jacq. 



1. Tetranthera Californica, Hook. & Am. 



Hab. Southern Oregon, and Valley of the Sacramento and elsewhere 

 in California. — This, the now familiar California Laurel, is a fine orna- 

 mental tree, which seems to attain its greatest altitude on the Upper 

 Sacramento, where Mr. Brackenridge noticed some trees that were fully 

 sixty feet high, and with trunks three feet in diameter ; and Douglas 

 computed the height of some he saw at 120 feet. The odor is so 

 pungent and intense as to produce headache and sickness. The 

 wood is very beautiful, and is used for fine cabinet-work. 



