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where they are found in great abundance; but species of Scevola 
are also found in the Moluccas. Brunonia ae is an inte- 
resting fragrant Australian perennia . 
ASARALS. 
Epigynous exogens, with monochlamydeous flowers, and small 
embryo lying in a large quantity of albumen, which Dr. Lindley 
places at the end of his system, but acknowledges the position 
to be anomalous as respects their woody structure, the pecu- 
liarity of their trimerous flowers, and inferior ovary, abounding 
in ovules, which have no parallel near where they are placed. 
Endlicher, on the other hand, places them with his TerMINALIACEx 
and NrEPENTHACE®. 
Trees, shrubs, or herbaceous plants ; leaves alternate, rarely opposite, 
rarely unisexual by abortion, arranged ins suns eresocian; pore | opine wi 
ens four or five, opposite the segments of . 
the perianth ; anthers opening longitudinally ; fruit one-seeded, nut- 
like, und slightly fleshy. 
Trees, shrubs, under-shrubs, or herbaceous plants, with opposit 
entire leaves, veinless, eer. non-stipulate ; flowers hermaphrodite; 
calyx tubular. , adherent to the ovary, with free entire peat petals CCCII. Loranthacee. 
four to eight, b 
equal in number; ovary inferior; anthers turned inwards. 
Shrubs, for the most part parasitical. with simple opposite ore \ 
— pe jan veinl pena thick, and leathery ; seston 8 unisexual, 
nicles ; nth erent with the ovary, having three to i] CCCIII. Viscacee. 
{ 
ikes or pan 
five rfl triangular divisions, gag in estivation ; pin ae eq 
af te, e division e@ perianth; ovary inferior; fruit fleshy, one- 
erbaceous plants or shrubs, the latter often climbing; leaves 
aterant vg and stalked, often bese ong Aone ‘amen the 
»wers hermaphrodite; calyx tubular ; stamons six CIV. Aristolochiaceee. 
to twelve, sine tie the base of the er My ovary inferior, six, ec ~ 
rarely three or four-celled ; ovules i fruit a capsule or a 
dry, with three, four, or six many-seeded c 
The SanraLace&,. or add veth, are found in Europe and 
North America as humble weeds, but in Australia, the East Indies, 
and the South Sea Islands, they expand into large shrubs or small 
trees, as Santalum album. This tree is chiefly valuable for its 
wood, which is hard, heavy, admits of a high polish, and yields a 
fine perfume ; qualities which recommend it for all kinds of fancy 
furniture and boxes. It is also burnt in temples, as incense, its 
fragrant odour being due to an essential oil said to be heavier than 
water. 
The LoranrHace# are natives of the tropics, both of Asia and 
America, but rare in Africa, where, however, the parasitical genera 
are found hanging in clusters from the trees on which they grow. 
Their eomemy presents some very curious phenomena. In Viscum, 
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