Tamarix. PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 101 
This species grows to be a middling tree, is a native 
of sandy islands in large rivers or on their sandy banks, 
or in the vicinity of the sea, between Upara and Pan- 
tacota, on the coast of Coromandel, It flowers during 
the latter part of the rainy season. 
Trunk often as thick as a man’s body, from six to 
twelve feet high, generally crooked. Bark scabrous. 
Branches numerous spreading in every direction ; their 
bark greenish, with brown scabrous specks. Zeaves mi- 
nute, sessile, pressing close to the branchlets ; on the ex- 
tremities of the young shoots, imbricated ; on those more 
advanced in size, more remote, occasioned by the increas- 
ing size of the branchlets, Flowers small, white, exceeding- 
ly numerous, collected on many terminal racemes forming 
a very large, beautifully drooping panicle. Bractes leaf- 
like, solitary, one-flowered. Filaments twice the length 
of the petals. Anthers four-lobed, with a terminal point. 
Style short, single, more than half way three-cleft ; divisi- 
ons or stigmas recurved, feathery. 
When it meets with a good soil, it has a very elegant 
appearance, particularly when in flower. 
2. T. dioeca, R. 
Dioecous, arboreous. Leaves short, obliquely truncat- 
ed. Panicles terminal. Male flowers pentandrous, Fe- 
male with five abortive stamens. 
Beng. Lal Thon, 
Picpula. Asiat. Res. 4. p. 268. 
A native of the islands in the Ganges and of its banks 
above Sook-saugor, where it blossoms during the rains, 
at which period, in some situations, little more than the: 
tops of the plants are to be seen above water. In our 
gardens it is in flower the greater part of the year and is 
highly ornamental. 
Trunk short, covered with dark-coloured, cracked bark, 
Branches very numerous, spreading in every. 1 
