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above. Follicles 1} in. long, pubescent, tapering into the persistent style, 
ultimately splitting into 2 boat-shaped valves.—A. Ounn. Precur. (1838) 
n. 350 ; Raoul Choix (1846) 42 ; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 219; JT. Kirk 
Forest Fl, (1889) t. 35; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fi. (1906) 606; Ill. N.Z. Fl. 
ii (1914) t. 171. 
Nortu Istanp : Common in woods throughout. Sour Istanp: Southern shores 
of Cook Strait, Croixelles Harbour, 7’, Kirk; Pelorus Sound, Buchanan, J. Rutland 
Sea-level to 2800 ft. Honeysuckle ; Rewarewa. November—Decem ber. 
A tall handsome tree, easily distinguished by its fastigiate mode of growth. The 
wood is beautifully variegated, reddish on a light-brown ground, and is much used for 
inlaying and cabinetwork, ornamental turnery, &c. For an account of the fertilization 
of the flowers, see a paper by myself in vol. ii of the Journal of the Australasian 
Association. Mr, A. Allison sends me a curious sport in which the leaves are dichoto- 
mously forked. 
Family XXX. SANTALACEAE. 
Trees or shrubs or herbs, often parasitic on the roots of other plants. 
Leaves alternate or opposite, simple and entire, sometimes reduced to 
minute scales or altogether wanting; stipules absent. Flowers regular, 
hermaphrodite or unisexual, usually small and greenish, solitary or in 
axillary or terminal cymes or spikes. Perianth superior or inferior, 
3-6-lobed or -partite;. lobes valvate, often hairy behind the anthers. 
Stamens 3-6, inserted on the perianth-lobes and opposite to them ; anthers 
2-celled. Ovary inferior, rarely superior, 1-celled; style short; stigma 
capitate or 3-4-lobed ; ovules 2-3, pendulous from a central column. Fruit 
an indehiscent nut or drupe. Seed solitary, globose or ovoid; albumen 
copious, fleshy ; embryo usually small, terete, radicle superior. 
A family of moderate size, widely dispersed in both temperate and tropical regions. 
era 28°; species not much exceeding 250. The only species of much economic value 
antalum album, which yields the well-known sandalwood. Both the New Zealand 
ra are found in Australia, and Hxocarpus extends also to the Pacific islands, Malay 
hipelago, and Madagascar. | 
fy. Perianth superior. Flowers in axillary cymes .. J, Fusanus, 
fess. Perianth inferior. Flowers in axillary spikes .. 2, EXocaRPUS. 
I. FUSANUS R. Br. 
Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate. Flowers 
maphrodite or unisexual by abortion, in axillary or terminal racemes 
ascicles.’ Perianth-tube turbinate, adnate to the ovary and produced 
ve it into a projecting rim; segments 4-6, each furnished with a tuft 
iairs at the base. Stamens 4-6, affixed to the base of the perianth- 
nents and shorter than them; anthers ovate, dehiscing longitudinally. 
> lining the projecting part of the perianth-tube. Ovary inferior; style 
‘t, conic; stigma small, 2-4-lobed; ovules 2-4. Fruit a globose or 
nate drupe crowned at the summit by the annular scar of the perianth- 
nents ; exocarp more or less fleshy ; endocarp hard, often rugose. 
bryo linear, in the centre of the albumen. | 
A small genus of 5 species, all Australian except the one found in New Zealand. 
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