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No. 15. 
Pusan us acuminatus, R.Br. 
The Quandong. 
(Natural Order SANTALACEvE.) 
Botanical description.— Genus, Fusanus, Linn. 
Flowers. —Hermaphrodite. 
Perianth-tube. —Adnate, turbinate, shortly produced beyond the ovary into a broad open free 
portion, lined by the sinuately four-lobed disk, the margin of which is continuously free inside 
the stamens; the perianth lobes four, with a tuft of hairs behind each stamen. 
Filaments. —Short, inflected over the notches of the disk. 
Anthers.— Short, with two parallel cells opening longitudinally. 
Ovary. —Inferior, with an erect rather thick placenta, scarcely acuminate at the top, the two or 
three adnate ovules distinct only at the base, and the whole dilEcult to separate from the 
, fleshy ovary before fecundation.. 
Style. —Very shgrt and conical, or scarcely any, with two, or rarely three, distinct seminal 
stigmas. 
Fruit. —A globular drupe, crowned by the persistent perianth lobes, or rarely by the scar only of 
the fallen lobes; the epicarp more or less fleshy or succulent; the endocarp hard, and 
usually rugose or pitted. 
Trees or shritbs. —With the habit, foliage, and inflorescence of Santalum, but with smaller flowers. 
Bracts. —Small, and very deciduous, so as to be rarely seen. 
Botanical description.— Species, F. acuminatus , R.Br., Prod. 355. 
A tall shrub or a tree of 20 to 30 feet. 
Leaves.- —Opposite, lanceolate, acute, or sometimes, when young, with a short hooked point, 
mostly 2 or 3 inches long, and tapering into a petiole of 2 or 3 lines, but very variable in 
size and breadth, coriaceous, with the lateral veins often prominent when old. 
Flowers.— Rather numerous, in a terminal pyramidal panicle, scarcely longer than the leaves, 
but in some of the western specimens much reduced. 
Perianth. —Spreading to about 2£ lines diameter, the lobes somewhat concave, even when open. 
Free margin of the <iisk very prominent, broadly rounded between the stamens, which curvo 
over the notches. 
Anthers. —Very short. 
Style. —Exceedingly short and conical, or scarcely any, with a deeply two or three-lobed stigma. 
Fruit. —Globular, | to \ inch diameter, with a succulent epicarp, and a hard, bony, much pitted 
endocarp; the perianth lobes persisting on the top till the fruit is uearly or quite ripe. 
(B.F1., vi, 215.) 
