Ephedra.| CXLII. GNETACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 641 
TEMPERATE and ALPINE HIMALAYA and WESTERN Tree in the drier regions, 
alt. 7-12,000 ft. ; 12—16,000 ft. in Sikkim.— DrsTRIB. Europe, W. and Central Asia. 
A low-growing rigid tufted shrub with usually a gnarled stem and erect green 
branches, 6 in.—4 ft. Spikelets 1~} in., subsessile, often whorled ; fruiting with 
often fleshy red succulent bracts, 1-2-seeded. Seeds biconvex or plano-convex.—I 
follow Brandis in referring E. Gerardiana to vulgaris. From its locality I suspect 
that Regel’s E. glauca is the same as a common West Tibetan form. 
2. E. pachyclada, Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 713; branches rather stout 
erect striate scaberulous, bracts connate to the middle margined eciliate, 
anthers about 6 sessile or subsessile. 
WESTERN HIMALAYA in the drier regions, and WESTERN TIBET, from Garwhal 
westwards, ascending to 15,500 ft., Thomson, Edgeworth, Clarke, &c.—DisTR1B. 
Affghanistan, E. Persia. 
A rather tall shrub, described by Boissier from male plants alone ; it is generally 
more robust than Æ. vulgaris, and more scabrid. Gilgit specimens collected by Clarke 
are very scabrid. I can find no good characters in the spikes and flowers except the 
more or less margined bracts. 
3. E. peduncularis, Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 717; scandent, branches 
slender, leaves often developed filiform, male catkins sessile or peduncled 
6-20 fld., anthers sessile, fem. bracts 4 pairs ciliate, lower pairs confluent 
patelliform uppermost shortly 2-fid. E. Alte, Brand. For. Fl 501, t. 69. 
E. alata (? misprint for Alte), Edgew. in Journ. Lina. Soc. vi. 194. 
The PANJAB, RAJPOOTANA and ScrnpE; Balewala, Edgew.; the Salt and Mar- 
gulla Ranges, Vicary, Fleming, &e.—Disrrip. Affghanistan to Syria. 
A tall sarmentose climber, covering rocks and bushes, often glaucous ; branchlets 
often fascicled and filiform, sometimes scaberulous. Male catkins often on a 
peduncle 1-1} in., rarely axillary and fascicled, fem. peduncles often recurved. 
Fruit with often fleshy red bracts that sometimes are so large and juicy as to re- 
semble grapes and be eatable.— Boissier distinguishes peduncularis from Alte by the 
minute male catkins, and slender recurved peduneles of the female, but these cha- 
"acters I find to be valueless, and I quite believe that these, together with E. foliata, 
Boiss., and ciliata, Fisch. & Meyer, will prove to be one species. 
2. GNETUM, Linn. 
Climbing monecious or diœcious evergreen shrubs or erect trees, 
branches jointed. Leaves opposite, quite entire, penninerved. Flowers 
whorled in the axils of the cup-shaped bracts of axillary or terminal solitary 
or panicled spikes, often surrounded with jointed hairs. Male fl.; peri- 
anth narrowly clavate, entire or valvately 2-fld.; anther-cells 2, slits 
terminal. Fem. fl. (some imperfect); ovule ovoid or globose, inner integu- 
gent, produced into a slender exserted tube with often a toothed or 
mbriate mouth. Seed drupaceous.— Species about 15, Tropical Asia, 
nca, America and Pacific. 
of the ș n foliage and in the size and form of the seed. I cannot iden T von i 
his « lene. enumerated in Griffith's ** Notule,” and of which analyses are g 
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Ovary and seed sessile. 
law G. Gnemon, Linn. Mant. 195; an erect monæcions tree or shrub, 
8 ikes from elliptic-lanceolate to broadly oblong acuminate or cuspidate ; 
sea q, Politary or panicled, hairs round the ovary white, seed ovoid acute 
ssile. Endl. Conif. 250; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 349; fort. Ft. 
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