Viscum.'] 



78. LORANTIlACEiE. 



293 



Western Peninsula. Very common on the ghats from the Konkan 

 southwards on many different kinds of trees. Fl. apparently throughout 

 the year, 



6. V. articulatum, Burm. Fl. Ind. 311 ; Brandis For. Fl. 394 ; FL 

 Br. I. 5. 226. 



Sub-tropical Himalaya from Chamba to Sikkim and southwards to 

 Ceylon. Throughout the presidency, not common, growing on Biospyros 

 melanoxylon, in the Dharwar District. Fl. June-Aug. Fr. Dec .-Feb. 



OnDEE 79. SANTALACEiS. 



Trees, shrubs or herbs. Leaves entire, alternate or opposite, 

 "without stipules. Flowers regular^ hermaphrodite or unisexual. 

 Perianth superior or inferior, 3-8-toothed, lobed. or partite, often 

 with a hairy tuft behind the anthers. Stamens 3-6, opposite to 

 perianth lobes. Disk various. Ovary inferior^ 1-celled, with a free 

 central placenta, bearing 2-5, pendulous ovules. Style usually short, 

 stigma entire or 3-6-lobed. Fruit a nut or drupe. Seed globose, 

 albumen copious ; embryo usually terete. 



Tree. Leaves opposite. Disk of scales between the 



stamens 1. Santalttm. 



Shrub. Leaves alternate. Disk angled between the 



stamens ... 2. Osteis. 



Spinous tree. Leaves alternate. Filaments 2-tid. Disk 



annular 3. ScLEEOPYRrM. 



1. SANTALUM, L. 



Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, coriaceous. Flowers in 

 terminal and axillary cymes, bisexual ; bracts minute. Perianth tube 

 campanulate adnate to the base of the ovary, lobes valvate with a tuft 

 of hairs on the face and with a concave disk adhering to the base. Sta- 

 mens 5-4, short, united at the bases of the lobes. Ovary at first free, at 

 length I inferior, 1-celled with 2-4 pendulous ovules, attached near the 

 base of the central placenta. Drupe globular, fleshy ; endocarp ribbed. 



S. album, Linn. Sp. PL 497 ; Fl. Br. L 6. 231 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 224 ; Brandis For. Fl. 398 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv- t. 256. The White 

 Sandalwood Tree. Gundada, K. ; Chandan ; M. Sandal^ Hind. ; SukJiad, 

 Sind ; Suket, Guz. 



Western Peninsula from near Poona southwards. Indigenous through- 

 out the dry districts of the presidency, also abundant in some of the dry 

 deciduous forests of North Kanara ; often along the bunds of tanks and 

 in hedges. Fl. Mch.-Aug. Fr. 0. and H. S. A small evergreen tree. 



Fruit black, globose, succulent; endocarp bony, rough. The seeds 

 yield a thick, viscid oil. The essential oil is distilled from the wood, 

 the roots yield the greatest quantity. Hcartwood is the sandalwood 



