426 TAMARIX GAl-LICA. 



observe the reiiiaikable construction of the hypogynous disk. 

 To this plant he gives the above name, which is inadmissible 

 as a specific denomination ; for I have now before me a mass 

 of specimens of this plant sent me in a living state from La 

 Teste near Bordeaux, through the kindness of M. M. 

 Charles des Moulins and Laterrade, and find that slender- 

 ness is by no means its usual character ; but on the contrary 

 that it has very rarely the younger branches so filiform as 

 those of T. Gallica, and that it evidently represents a stouter 

 and less elegant shrub. This is the species I called T". Gal~ 

 lica, [Phytogr, Can. Sect. i. p. 172,) as distinguished from the 

 southern form which I then considered as T. Canariensis, 

 Willd. As the epithet snhtids, can only apply to some acci- 

 dental form seen by Professor Ehrenberg, 1 therefore describe 

 it below under the name of T. Anglica. 



T. (Gallica) Na?-bo7iensis, Ehrenb., Canariensis, Willd., 

 Nilotica, Ehrenb., arhorea, Sieb., manni/era, Ehrenb. ? heter- 

 ophylla, Ehrenb. ? 



The above forms, excepting perhaps the last two, belong, 

 as was mentioned in the Phytographia Canariensis, to the 

 T. Canariensis, Willd., which I now consider to be the real 

 T. Gallica, Linn., T, (^Gallica) Chinensis, Lour. — From a 

 specimen collected in China by Sir George Staunton, the 

 means of examining which I owe to my estimable friend 

 A. B. Lambert, Esq., and which I refer without doubt to 

 T, Indica, Roxb., it is possible that the plant of Loureiro 

 may be referrible likewise to that species. 



T. {Gallica) Indica, Willd., T. epacroides. Smith, T. Gal- 

 lica, W. et Arn. — From specimens given by Klein to Labil- 

 lardiere, I find that the T. Indica of Willdenovv, and of Rox- 

 burgh and his associates, is a very remarkable species easily 

 distinguishable from all others by its very long cylindrical 

 spikes, its campanulate corolla, obovate petals, and truncated 

 disk. The T. Indica, Hort. Par. is a different plant, which 

 has since been described by M. Spach under the name of 

 T. elegans, in the Suites a Bitffon, v. v. p. 482. It is proba- 

 bly a native of northern Asia, as it resists perfectly the Pari- 



