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624 part of the perianth-tube. Ovary inferior; style short, conic; stigma small, 2–4-lobed; ovules 2–4. Fruit a globose or turbinate drupe crowned at the summit by the annular scar of the perianthsegments; exocarp more or less fleshy; endocarp hard, often rugose. Embryo linear, in the centre of the albumen.

1. F. Cunninghamii, Benth. and Hook. f. ex T. Kirk, Forest Fl. 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, ⅕–1 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, ⅙–¼ in. 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 ⅓–½ in. long, narrow-turbinate, bright-red, crowned with the annular scar of the perianth -segments.—Santalum Cunninghamii, ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 223; Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 247. S. Mida, ''Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 563, 575; Raoul, Choix,'' 42. Mida salicifolia, M. eucalyptoides, and M. myrtifolia, ''A. Cunn. Precur.'' n. 340, 341, 342.

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Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate or rarely opposite, often reduced to minute scales. Flowers minute, hermaphrodite or unisexual by abortion, in small axillary spikes or fascicles, each flower sessile or 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;