LEGUMINOSAE. 153 
HALIMODENDRON. Salt Tree. 
(Family Leguminosae). 
=i) 
relatively large buds. 
Shrubs with more or less pun- 
gent stipules and frequent per- 
sistent spine-tipped leaf-axes, oth- 
erwise deciduous. Twigs slender 
or often forming globose spurs 
invested by the many persistent 
bud scales, angular: pith rather 
small, somewhat angular, contin- 
uous. Buds usually thicker than 
the twig, solitary, sessile, globose, 
with some half-dozen exposed 
acute scales. Leaf-scars alternate, 
much raised, minute: bundle-trace 
1: stipules erect beside the bud, 
on the leaf-cushion. 
Halimodendron differs from 
other commonly seen plants with 
a much raised persistent leaf-base 
in that this spreads almost hori- 
zontally from the stem, in this 
way making place for the globose 
These frequently develop into short 
leafy spurs, on the leaf-bases of which spines sometimes per- 
sist. As in Parkinsonia and Caragana, the spines are per- 
sistent axes, marked with scars from which leaflets have 
fallen. The winter-characters of H. halodendron are pictured 
by Schneider, f. 72. 
Outer bud-scales dark, the inner pale. H. halodendron. 
