\1X. TAMARISCINK.E ((JLIVER). 151 



bricate. Petals as inaiiy, free or slightly connate nt the i)ase. Staim-ns 5- 

 10, free, inserted into a small, annular/hypogynous disk or connate at the 

 base, forming a ring around the base of the ovary (or monadelphous in an 

 extra-tropical African genus) ; anthers bilocular, dciiiscing longitndinallv. 

 Ovary free, 1 -celled, with as many multiovulate placentas from the ba^e of 

 the cavity as styles ; stigmas 3-4. Seeds with a sessile or stipitate crest of 

 long hairs, exalbuminous.— Mostly bushes or small trees with minute or 

 squaniiform leaves. Flowers white or rose, spic.iie or in crowd(-d racemes, 

 often panicled. 



The principal Tribe of a small Order, most numerous around the McditeiraiK nn and in 

 temperate Asia. 



1. TAMARIX, Linn.; Bcnth. et Hook. f. Gen. 1*1. i. lOU. 



Characters of the Tribe ; differing from Myricaria, the only other genus 

 which it contains, |)rincipally in the stamens, which are free or coimate at 

 the base into a minute ring merely. Neither of the following are peculiar 

 to this Flora. 



Branehlets not articulated. Leaves subulate, acute, \-2 lines. Kacerncs 



usually crowded 1. T. galiica. 



Branehlets apparently articulated. licaves reduced to the sheath and 



oblique point. Racemes usually interrupted 2. 7. arliculata. 



1. T. galiica^ Linn.; DC. Prod. iii. 96. A bush or small tree with 

 slender erect or somewhat pendulous branches. Leaves subulate, acute, from 

 a triangular amplexicaul base, rarely over 2 lines long, usually much siiorter. 

 Flowers very numerous, crowded in slender lateral and terminal spicate ra- 

 cemes forming large paniculate masses of flower. Pedicels ecpialling or 

 shorter than the calyx, from a scale-like bract. Sepals ovate-deltoid, entire 

 or minutely denticulate, much shorter than the free petals. Styles 3, articu- 

 lated at the division ; lobes at length divergent. — T. indica, Willd. ; DC. 1. c. 

 T. senegalensis, DC. I. c. T. nilotica, Ehrenb. in Linneea, ii. 2<)1). 



Upper Guinea. Seueijambia, Leprieur and Perrottet, B'ufji'm ! and others. 



Nile Ijand. Abyssinia, Schhnper ! and others. Nile, lat. 16"^ N., Speke and Grant ! 



Grows also in the Atlautic islands, around the Mediterranean, and eastward to India. 



2. T. articulata, Vahl ; DC. Prod.m. 96. A bush or small tree, 

 the slender ultimate branehlets usually hoary with a saline ettlorescenee from 

 the impressed-puuctate glands, ami closely jointed, each article oblicjue and 

 apiculate above, the leaves being reduced to their sheathing base, the live j)art 

 to a minute triangidar tooth. Flowers in spicate usually interrupted raecmes. 

 often less crowded than in T. gaUica, but various. 



Nile Ijand. Nubia {Schweinf. et Asch. Enum.). 



IjOTver Guinea. Mossamedcs and Bumba, Angola, Dr. W<'lwitsch ! 



South Central, 23^ S. lat., Cliupmau and Raines '. 



Occurs south of the Tropic, also in North Afiica and eastward to India. 



Order XX. ELATINE^ (by Pn.f. Oliver). 

 Flowers regular, hernuiphroditc. Sepal>^ -^ "« Uw, imlMi.Mi. 1'. t,il> a5 



