Tamarix.] xx. TAMARisciNE^E. (W. T. Thiselton Dyer.) 249 



A glabrous glaucous shrub, with the habit of T. passerinoides, Del. ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, i. 778. Bracts linear, equalling the flowers in length. Stamens equalling the 

 ovary; filaments dilated at the base, confluent with the disk-glands. Stigmas sessile. 

 Capsule not seen. 



3. T. dioica, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 22 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 101 ; leaves sheathing, 

 flowers dioecious in rather short dense peduncled spikes. Griff. Notiil. 

 iv. 465, ic. 577, f. 2; Wall. Cat. 1241; W. & A. Prodr. 40; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, i. 777. T. articulata, Wall Cat. 3756, b & c (not of Vahl). 



From SINDH and the PANJAB to ASSAM, the WESTERN PENINSULA and BIRMA, near 

 rivers and on the sea coast. 



A small tree. Branches with drooping extremities ; ultimate branchlets elongate, 

 patent-fastigiate. Leaves glabrous, green, obliquely truncate and acuminate. Spikes 

 panicled, 1-2 in., about equalling their peduncles. Brads triangular, acuminate. 

 Flowers in. diam., pink. Stamens inserted in the notches of the 5-lobed disk ; 

 anthers purple. 



4. T. articulata, Vahl, Symb. ii. 48, t. 32 ; hoary with impress-punctate 

 glands, leaves sheathing, spikes lax usually sessile. Boias. Fl. Orient, i. 777. 

 T. orientalis, Forsk. Descr. 206. T. Pharas, Ham. ex Wall Cat. 3758. Thuya 

 aphylla, Linn. Amcen. Acad. iv. 295. 



Abundant in SINDH and the PANJAB; often cultivated. DISTRIB. Beluchistan and 

 westward to Egypt and S. Africa. 



A bush or coniferous-looking tree. Branchlets fastigiate, elongate, slender, cylindric, 

 jointed. Leaves reduced to a very short sheath with a minute tooth. Spikes slender, 

 more or less interrupted. Bracts sheathing, acute. Flowers | in. diam., subsessile. 

 Stamens inserted in alternate notches of the 10-lobed disk. The Cape form is T. 

 tisneoides, E. Mey. 



** Stamens 10. (Pleiandrce. Bge.) 



5. T. ericoides, Rottl. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. Berol iv. 214, t. 4 ; leaves 

 impunctate sheathing-amplexicaul, glands of the disk separating the fila- 

 ments. T. mucronata, Smith in Rees Cycl. T. tenacissima, Ham. ex Wall. 

 Cat. 3757. Myricaria vaginata, Desv. in Ann. Sc. Nat. iv. 350. Trichaurus 

 ericoides, W. & A. Prodr. 40 ; Wight III. t. 24 B ; Ic. 22 ; Camb. in Jacg. 

 Voy. Bot. 58, t. 70. 



CENTRAL INDIA, BENGAL, the WESTERN PENINSULA and CEYLON. 



A shrub; stems slender, branchlets fastigiate. Leaves minute, scale-like, ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers \ in. diam., pale rose-pink, in terminal racemes 4-6 in. 

 Stamens not exceeding the petals, alternately long and short. Capsule 4 in. Approaches 

 Myricaria in habit. 



6. T. stricta, Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 778 ; hoary with impress-punctate 

 glands, leaves closely sheathing, glands of the disk passing into the slightly 

 dilated bases of the filaments. 



SINDH, Stocks. DISTRIB. Beluchistan. 



Habit of T. articulata, Vahl, from which according to Boissier it is distinguished by 

 the thicker branchlets more remote leaves and subsessile stigmas, besides the different 

 number of stamens. 



2. XKYRXCARXA, Desv. 



Fastigiate shrubs. Leaves small, narrow, sessile, often crowded. Inflo- 

 rescence of lateral or terminal spike-like racemes; flowers rose-pink. Sta- 

 mens 10, alternately long and short, monadelphous. Disk almost obsolete. 

 Ovary tapering with 3 sessile stigmas ; placentas basal, very short, adnate to 

 the middle of the valves ; ovules many. Seeds exalbuminous with a usually 



