388 SANTALACEAE. | Fusanus. 
1. F. Cunninghamii Benth. and Hook. f. ea T. Kirk Forest Fl. (1889) 
t. 75, 76.—A small slender tree 10-25 ft. high; trunk seldom more than 9 in. 
diam.; bark grey. Leaves alternate or more rarely opposite, extremely | 
variable in shape, 2-5 in. long, 4-1 in. broad, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate 
to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong or obovate, acute or acuminate, 
narrowed into short petioles, quite entire, dark-green and glossy, veined, 
minutely punctate. Inflorescence axillary, of few- or many-flowered 
racemes or cymes, rarely reduced to few-flowered fascicles. Flowers small, 
4-lin. diam., brownish-green, hermaphrodite or unisexual by abortion, 
the females the smallest. Perianth-tube hemispherical; segments 4-6, 
triangular, deciduous, each with a tuft of yellowish hairs at the base. 
Stamens the same number as the perianth-segments ; filaments short, slender. 
Disc 4-6-lobed. Stigma 2—4-lobed. Drupe 3-3 in. long, narrow-turbinate, 
bright-red, crowned with the annular scar of the perianth-segments.— 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 624; Jll. N.Z. Fl. ii (1914) t. 177. Santa- 
lum Cunninghamii Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 223; Handb. N.Z. FI. 
(1864) 247. §S. mida Hook. Ic. Plant. (1843) tt. 563, 575; Raoul Chore 
(1846) 42. Mida salicifolia, M. eucalyptoides, and M. myrtifolia A. Cunn. 
Precur. (1838) n. 340, 341, 342. Ayam, Nek. Heel 
Nortu Istanp: Lowland forests from the North Cape to Cook Strait, but local 
to the south of Rotorua. Sea-level to 2000 ft. Maire ; New Zeaiand Sandalwood. 
Septem ber—October. 
This differs from the Australian species of the genus in the alternate leaves, 
axillary inflorescence, and turbinate fruit. Cunningham constituted a separate genus 
for it under the name of Mida, and divided it into 3 species based upon the greater or 
lesser breadth of the leaves. But as leaves of all intermediate shapes can easily be found, 
and sometimes occur on the same branch, it is impossible to separate his species even 
as varieties. The wood is hard and dense, very strong and durable, and is occasionally 
used for ornamental turnery, inlaying, &e. 
9, EXOCARPUS Labill. 174%. 
Shrubs. or small trees. Leaves alternate or rarely oppos! 
reduced to minute scales. Flowers minute, hermaphrodite or unisext 
by abortion, in small axillary spikes or fascicles, each flower sessile 
nearly so in a notch of the rhachis or axillary to a minute scale-like bract. 
Perianth inferior, divided to the base into 4-6 valvate segments. Stamens 
the same number as the perianth-segments and inserted near their base; 
filaments very short and broad; anthers adnate, 2-celled, longitudinally 
dehiscent. Disc flat, thick, sinuately 4-6-lobed. Ovary superior, fleshy, 
conic ; stigma small, sessile, entire or obscurely lobed. Fruit a nut or 
drupe seated on the enlarged and often succulent and coloured pedicel. 
Seed erect ; testa thin; albumen copious; embryo minute, cylindric. 
Species 16, 9 of which are found in Australia, one of them extending to the Malay 
Archipelago. The remaining 7 are found in Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, New 
Zealand, the Sandwich Islands, and Madagascar. 
1. E. Bidwillii Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 223, t. 52.—A small 
much-branched rigid procumbent shrub 6-24 in. high; branches ascending, 
short, stiff, terete, deeply furrowed. Leaves reduced to minute triangular 
scales, alternate, persistent. Flowers minute, arranged in short and stout 
4—]0-flowered spikes springing from the axils of the scale-like leaves; 
rhachis pubescent, excavated at the insertion of each flower; bract minute. 
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