Dicotyledons with Incomplete Flowers. 
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Natural Order 
SANTALACEAL Tab. 73. 
D iagnosis. — Trees shrubs or herbs, with alternate simple leaves. Peri¬ 
anth small, regular, the lobes valvate in aestivation. Stamens epiphyllous, as 
many as lobes of perianth and opposite to them. Ovary inferior, 1-celled, 
with few ovules suspended from a central ‘placenta. 
Distribution. —A small Natural Order, widely dispersed, especially in Temperate regions, in both 
Hemispheres. The European representatives are herbaceous or wiry perennials, and exhibit a partial 
subterranean parasitism. 
One British Genus; Species, i. 
USES, &c.—Sandal-wood, celebrated for its lasting fragrance, is obtained from species of the genus Santalum, 
growing in India and the Islands of the Pacific Ocean. The seeds of an Australian Fusanus are edible. 
PROTEACE^E is a large woody Natural Order of Dicotyledons with incomplete (monochlamydeous) flowers, 
characterised by coriaceous foliage, usually densely spicate or capitate flowers, stamens inserted upon and opposite 
to the valvate segments of the perianth, and ovary free, unilocular. The head-quarters of Proteaceae is in Australia, 
where specimens of the Order form a large proportion of the scrub vegetation. It is numerous also at the Cape of 
Good Hope ; elsewhere comparatively rare, and not represented in Europe. Species of Banksia , Hakea, Grevilleco 
and Protea are in cultivation for the sake of their curious inflorescence and foliage. 
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