S48 xix. poBTULACEiE. (W. T. Thiselton Dyer.) [Tdinum, ■ 



^temft shrubby, erect, striate. Leaves 1-2 in., cuneiform-obovate, uppermost mucro- 

 nate. Flowers iu a terminal subdichotomously branched panicle, with small acuminate 

 membranous-edged bracts ; pedicels decurved in fruit. Petals 4, purple. Sepals | in. 

 long, broadlj ovate, margins membranous, rather obtuse. Sti/le very short, 3-fia. ^ 

 Capsule globose, about ^ i^- diam. 



Order XX. TAMARISCBVE^. (By W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.L.S.) 



Undersbrubs, bushes, or small trees. Leaves alternate, very minute, often 

 Bcale-like, exstipulate, rarely sheathing, sometimes fleshy or impress-punctate. 

 Flowers solitary or in spiked or panicled racemes, regular, rarely 1 -sexual. 

 Sepals a,nd petals each 5, rarely 4, imbricate, free or connate below. Stamens 

 5-10-00, inserted on the disk, free or connate below; anthers versatile. 

 jDisA; hypogynous or subperigynous, 10-glandular. Ovary free, l-celled, or 

 imperfectly septate ; styles 2-5, free or connate, or stigmas 3-5, sessile ; 

 ovules 2-00 on each basal placenta, anatropous, rai)he ventral, micropyle 

 inferior. Capsvle 3-valved. Seeds erect, plumed or winged ; albumen floury, 

 subfleshy or 0; embryo straight, cotyledons flat. — Disteib. Cold, tem- 

 perate and hot regions, often in saline or sandy plains ; genera 5, species 

 about 40. 



. Stamens free, styles 3 «,..,.l. Tamarix* 



Stamens connate, stigmas sessile 2. Myricaria. 



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, Bushes or small trees. Leaves scale-like, amplexicaul or sheathing, ^w- 

 flore&ceme of lateral or terminal spikes or dense racemes ; flowers wiJjte or 

 pink, Siaviem 4, 5, 8 or 10 ; anthers apiculate. Disk more or less looea 

 from varying confluence of the glands. Ovary narrowed upwards; styles 

 3-4, short, dilated into the stigmas; placentas basal; ovules i^^^y-^r^g 

 with a sessile plume, exalbuminous ; embryo ovoid.— Distbib. Ot tne 

 Order ; species about 20. '■■, 



* Stamens 5. 



1. T. tallica, Zmn. ; leaves not sheathing smooth subulate or scale; 

 like acute, disk 5-lobed. ^ > • 



Throughout India from the N,W. Himalaya to Birma and Ceylon, near "^^f J!l 

 along the sea coast.— Distrib. W. and S. shores of Europe, N. and Tropical Ainco, 

 S. Asia. ^ 1 ^ • 



A bush or small tree ; branches slender. Flowers \ in. diam., shortly P^^'*^^^'® ./jg 

 slender panicled spike-like racemes, Stpals triangular-ovate, much shorter ^^" r 

 petals. Glands of di^h more or less coal^jbcing in pairs. Ovary sub-S-gonous, - 

 sessile; styles 3, articulated to the ovary, slightly connate.— Divided into niunert; 

 species difleriiigin minute aud uncertain cliaracters. . ujets 



Var. 1. indica, Willd. in Act. Nat, Cur. Berol. iv. 214 (sp.) ; usually green, ^*')^^;^ 

 divaricate, leaves semiamplexicaul, lobes of the disk entire or nearly so. ^•'"^. 

 Kmn, ex Roxb. Ft. Ind. ii. 100 {excL si/n.). T. gallica, Wight JU. t. 24 A. -i- r 

 oroides, Sm. in Bees Cycl. T. articulata, WalL Cat, 3756 a and d.— Common. ^ . . 



Var. 2. Palladi, Desv. in Ann. Sc. Nat. i v. 349 (sp.) ; glaucescent or glaucoiis, ora .^^^^ 

 lets erect, leaves shortly decurrent, lobes of the disk deeply emarginate. -^oi^^- ^ *; ^j. 

 i. 773. T. ramosissima, Ledeb. Jc. FL Boss. t. 256.— V\ estern Tibet, alt. 8-12,00^1^- ^.. 



. 2. T. salina. Dyer ; leaves cordiform subamplexicaul strongly imp^ 

 punctate. . 



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