Tamarix.] TAMARISCACEAE. 67 



Family XIX. TAMARISCACEAE. 



Mostly bushes or small trees. Leaves minute, scale-like, rarely 

 sheathing, sometimes fleshy, stipules 0. Flowers usually spicate 

 or in crowded racemes, small, regular. Sepals and petals 5 each 

 or rarely 4, sometimes a little connate below. Stamens 510 or 

 many, free or connate below. Disk 10-glandular. Ovary free, 

 1-celled or imperfectly 2-5-celled ; styles 2-5, free or connate ; 

 ovules 2-many on each of the 2-5 basal placentas. Capsule 3- 

 valved. Seeds erect, plumed with a crest of long hairs or winged ; 

 albumen floury or ; embryo straight. 



Tamarix, Linn. 



Learrx amplexicaul or sheathing. Flowers in lateral or terminal 

 spikes or close racemes, white or pink. Stamens 4-10 ; anthers 

 apiculate. Ovary narrowed upwards; styles 3-4, short, dilated 

 into stigmas above. Seeds with a sessile plume, exalbuminous ; 

 embryo ovoid. 



Young twigs covered by the minute imbricating leaf-blades, which ulti- 

 mately spread showing their amplexicaul bat not sheathing bases ; flowers 

 08 in. long, in long narrow panicled racemes ; capsule valves '12 in. long ; 



stamens 5 1. gallic a. 



Young twigs covered by the short cylindric leaf-sheaths : 



Flowers -08 in. long, in narrow terminal spikes ; capsule valves -15 in. 



long; stamens 5 2. dioica. 



Flowers -2 in. long in a long terminal raceme ; valves of capsule '4 in. 



long ; stamens 10 3. ericoides. 



1. TAMARIX GALLICA, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 248; W. & A. 40 : Brand. 

 For. Fl. t. 5. 



Sandy river-beds in the Deccan and on the E. Coast, 

 Godavari, Anantapur. 



A gregarious shrub or small tree. Bark rough ; wood 

 reddish with broad medullary rays, a good fuel. Vern. 

 Hind. Jhau ; Tel. Palivi ; Tarn. Kiri. 



2. TAMARIX DIOICA, Koxb. ; F. B. I. i. 249 ; W. & A. 40 ; Brand. 

 For. Fl. t. 6. T. gallica, Wt. 111. i. t. 24A (not of Linn.). 



Sandy river-beds and on the sea-coast, apparently very 



scarce. 



A gregarious shrub or small tree, used for fuel, 



