358 PERIPETALE. 
much employed in India as blisters, being simply bruised 
and applied to the skin. 
Officinal Plant, _ 
Lythrum Salicaria. 
ORDER CVI. 
- TAMARISCINEA. 
CuaractTers.—Shrubs or herbs, with alternate leaves; a 
persistent calyx of 4 or 5 divisions ; a corolla of as many 
petals; about 5 or 10 stamens; a superior ovary, with a 
Ahort style and 3 stigmas; and a l-celled, many-seeded, 
3-valved capsule, with 3 placenta. © 
Exampie.— Tamarix gallica, which produces a very pure — 
kind of sugar called the Manna of Mount Sinai. 
ORDER CVII. 
ROSACEA. .- 
» Rosacea, Pomee, Amygdalee (Drupacee), and Sanguisorbee, 
_ Cuaracters.—Trees, shrubs, or herbs ; leaves alternate, 
simple, or compound, often pinnate or digitate, and with 2 
stipules often joined laterally ; inflorescence very various 
flowers generally white, seldom red or yellow ; calyx mono-— 
_ sepalous, tubular or spread out, sometimes accompanied by _ 
an external second calyx, of 5 divisions or lobes; corolla of - 
5 equal petals, inserted in the orifice of the tube of the calyx, 
_ -orat the base of the divisions ; stamens numerous ; pistils 
