Tamarix articulata 
- Casuarina 
equisetifolia, 
CASUARINACEA. 
BH. Bei. v. 598. 
The Plains, planted, 
Capparis aphylla, 
Tamarix gallica, 
Tamarix salina, 
Tamarix dioica, 
Periploca aphylla, 
Periploca hydaspidis, 
ASCLEPIADECER. 
BeBe le ive Le. 
The Plains to 
4.000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Leptadenta Spartium, 
Orthanthera 
viminea, 
~ Plants of the Punjab. aes 648 
LEAFLESS PLANTS. 
TREES. 
see Trees, Hrect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
large, wood reddish, bark fibrous, stripping in long 
pieces, branches drooping, branchlets thread-like, cylin- 
dric, almost 6-8-angled, grooved, falling in winter, jointed, 
internodes } in., ending in a sheath of 6-8 united, awl- 
shaped scales (leaves ?) ; flowers minute, male and female. 
on the same or different trees, male flowers in superposed 
cups in terminal cylindric or almost clubbed spikes, 4 in, 
long, sepals 1 or 2, coneave, stamen 1, anther large, female 
flowers in ovoid or round heads, bracteate or 2-bracteolate, 
style 2-fid ; fruit ? in. diam., of hardened bracts, oblong- 
ovate with a broad tip, 12 rows of achenes winged, wing 
terminal, tipped by the style. 
SHRUBS. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
see Shrubs, Hrect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
PETALS UNITED. 
see Shrubs, Krect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
perennial, smooth, twining, branches wiry, tortuous, 
3 in. thick, sometimes clustered ; leaves (if any) }-4 in., 
opposite, linear, thick, just pointed ; flowers 4 in. diam., 
yellow, in loose terminal or axillary clusters 4-1 in. across, 
often opposite, very many, stalk thick, erect, bracts soon 
falling off, calyx 5-lobed, lobes quite smooth, overlapping, 
rounded, corolla wheel-shaped, lobes 5, oblong, blunt, 
velvety within, smooth without, mouth with a 10-lobed 
(corona) ring with 5 awl-shaped hairy processes, stamens 5, 
ununited, broad, short, flat, anthers bearded, touching over 
the stigma, stigma convex ; follicles 2, cylindric, smooth, 
seeds flattened, ovoid, winged with a tuft of hairs (coma). 
see Shrubs, Krect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Shrubs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 
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