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usually parasitic; leaves opposite or alter- 

 nate, veinless, fleshy, exstipulate; flowers often 

 showy, axillary or terminal; calyx often 

 bracteated; petals 0; ovary unilocular; ovules 

 definite, nucleus naked ; fruit succulent. 

 Common in equinoctial Asia, and America, 

 rare in Africa, Europe, at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, and in Australia. The celebrated 

 mistletoe of the Druids (Viscum album) be- 

 longs to this family. 

 3. Family. — Sandal- Woods (Santalaceae). Trees, 

 shrubs, or herbs ; leaves exstipulate ; flowers 

 mostly in spikes ; perianth 4-5-cleffc ; ovary 

 coherent, 1 -celled; ovules definite," nucleus 

 coated ; fruit 1 -celled, drupaceous ; seed 

 solitary. Occur as shrubs in Europe, and 

 North America, and as shrubs or small trees 

 in the East Indies, Australia, and Polynesia. 

 Yield Sandal-wood, Oil-nuts, &c. 



II. ORDER.— Umbellals (Umbellales). 



Flowers polypetalous, dichlamydeous ; seeds large, 

 solitary ; embryo small, in a large quantity of al- 

 bumen. 



1. Family. — Bruniads (Bruniacese). Shrubs, 

 branched, heath-like; leaves alternate, small, 

 imbricated, entire, exstipulate ; flowers small, 

 often capitate ; petals alternate with seg- 

 ments of calyx; stamens alternate with pe- 

 tals ; anthers turned outwards, 2-celled, 

 dehiscence longitudinal ; fruit 2 or 1-celled, 



