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bncate. Petals as many, free or slightly connate at the base. Stamens 5- 

 t", free, inserted into a small, annular, hypogynous disk or connate at the 

 base, forming a ring around the base of the ovary (or monadelphous in an 

 extra-tropical African genus); anthers bilocular, dehiscing longitudinally. 

 Jvary free, 1-celled, with as many multiovulate placentas from the base of 

 the cavity as styles ; stigmas 3-4. Seeds with a sessile or stipitate crest of 

 long hairs, exalbuminous. — Mostly bushes or small trees with minute or 

 squamiform leaves. Flowers white or rose, spicate or in crowded racemes, 

 Often panicled. 



Ine principal Tribe of a small Order, most numerous around the Mediterranean and in 

 temperate Asia. 



1. TAMABIX, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 160. 



Characters of the Tribe ; differing from Myricaria, the only other genus 

 which it contains, principally in the stamens, which are free or connate at 

 the base into a minute ring merely. Neither of the following are peculiar 

 to this Flora. 



Branchlets not articulated. Leaves subulate, acute, *-2 lines. Racemes 

 asuallj crowded 1. T. gallica. 



franchlets apparently articulated. Leaves reduced to the sheath and 

 oblique point. Racemes usually interrupted 2. 71 articulata. 



!• T. gallica, Linn.; DC. Prod. iii. 96. A bush or small tree with 

 slender erect or somewhat pendulous branches. Leaves subulate, acute, from 

 a triangular amplexicaul base, rarely over 2 lines long, usually much shorter. 

 *Wers very numerous, crowded in slender lateral and terminal spicate ra- 

 cemes forming large paniculate masses of flower. Pedicels equalling or 

 snorter than the calyx, from a scale-like bract. Sepals ovate-deltoid, entire 

 0r minutely denticulate, much shorter than the free petals. Styles 3, articu- 

 ■Wd at the division ; lobes at length divergent.— T. indica, Willd. ; DC. 1. c. 

 * *enegalensis, DC. 1. c. T. nilotica, Ehrenb. in Linnasa, ii. 269. 



*[pper Guinea. Sene?ambia, Leprieur and Perrottet, Bidjem ! and others. 



"ile Land. Abyssinia, Sehimper ! and others. Nile, lat. 16° N., Speke and Grant . 



b rows also in the Atlantic islands, around the Mediterranean, and eastward to India. 



2 - T. articulata, Vahl ; DC. Prod. iii. 96. A bush or small tree, 

 JJ slender ultimate branchlets usually hoary with a saline efflorescence from 

 th e impressed-punctate glands, and closely jointed, each article oblique and 

 jPiculate above, the leaves being reduced to their sheathing base, the free part 

 10 » minute triangular tooth. Flowers in spicate usually interrupted racemes, 

 °'ten less crowded than in T. gallica, but various. 



Jftle Land. Nubia (Schweinf. et Asch. Enum.). 



£ower Guinea. Mossamcdes and Bumba, Angola, Br. Welwitsch! 



South Central, 23° S. lat., Chapman and Baines ! 



Occurs south of the Tropic, also in North Africa and eastward to India. 



Order XX. ELATINEiE (by Prof. Oliver). 

 Rowers regular, hermaphrodite. Sepals 2-5, lree, imbricate. Petals as 



