Tamari«.} TAMARICINE# (Harv.) 119 
OrDER XVII. TAMARICINEZA, Desy. 
(By W. H. Harvey.) 
(Tamaricine, Desv. DC. Prod. 3. p. 95. Endl. Gen. No, ccexxi. Tama- 
ricaceze, Lindl. Veg. Kingd. N. exviii.) 
Flowers minute, regular. Calyw 4-5 parted, persistent, imbricate. 
Petals 4—5, imbricated, marcescent, Stamens hypogynous, as many or 
twice asmany as the petals ; filaments monadelphous ; anthers two-celled, 
incumbent. Ovary free, unilocular, with parietal or basal placente, and 
numerous ovules ; styles mostly 3, free or confluent. Capsule dry, split- 
ting into valves ; seeds numerous, comose, without albumen. 
Shrubs or suffruticose plants, inhabiting sea-shores or salt plains. Leaves minute, 
scalelike, imbricated, sessile, Flowers racemose or spiked, minute, crowded, white 
or 
Pe aaall Onin Say natives of the northern temperate zone of the Old 
World, especially along the shores of the Mediterranean, and in the salt plains of 
Central Asia. A single species only occurs in Southern Africa, These plants are 
of doubtful affinity, and were formerly placed, in Calyciflore, near Saxifragacee ; 
but appear to be rather a reduced form of the Hypericoid-group, An affinity with 
Salicacee has also been asserted. Their officinal uses are unimportant ; the bark is 
astringent and bitter. As ubstance resembling manna is obtained, in Arabia Petrea, 
from 7’. mannifera. ic . 
TAMARIX, Linn. 
Sepals 4-5, unequal, imbricated. Petals 4-5, hypogynous, equal. Sta- 
mens 4-10, rising from the glandular margin of a fleshy, hypogynous 
dise ; filaments separate at base. Styles usually 3. Ovary one-celled, 
with parietal placentz ; ovules numerous. Capsule 3-, rarely 2-4-valved, 
many seeded ; seeds with a terminal tuft of silky hairs. Endl. Gen. No. 
5484. DC. Prod. 3. p. 95. . 
Shrubs or small trees, growing in desert places, generally where there is much salt 
in the ground ; as, along the sea shores of Middle and Southern Europe, in North 
Africa, and in the salt plains of Central Asia. Leaves very minute, often reduced 
to mere sheathing scales. Flowers small, pink or white, ye, Te by their abun- 
dance, in terminal spicate racemes ; disagreeably scented. ‘The European species 
smells like a pigstye. ‘Named from the Yamarici, a people who inhabited the 
poe the Tamaris, now Zambria, in Spain, where the Tamarisk abounds.” Hook. 
1. T. articulata (Vahl, Symb. 2. p. 48. t. 32); glabrous, glaucous ; 
branchlets seemingly articulate ; leaves very minute, sheathing, mucro- 
nulate; spikes lateral and terminal, lax, few flowered; flowers 5-cleft, sub- 
sessile ; capsule 3-valved. DC. Prod. 1. p. 96. 7. orientalis, Forsk.—Eck. 
& Zey.! 2150. T. usneoides, B. Mey. in Pl. Drege. . 
Has. Barren places in Namaqualand, Eck. § Zey./ Drege! (Herb. T.C.D.) 
eee ete lta wre tasaneind 
circular pear jointed. 
to 
lateral point, The flowering bran are repeatedly divided, 
: BE os Ear een reed ele oe Maren 
or without a minute 
