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CCXXII. BATIDE^. 



CCXXII. BATIDE^E. Lindl 



Balis r.taritima. J plant. B. maritinut. J catkin. Jlatit. 9 plant. 



Satis. 9 catkin (mag.). 



Balis. 

 Flower J with bract (mag.). 



liatit. 

 9 spike cut vertically (mag.). 



natis. 

 Bract (mag.)> 



Batit. 

 Calyx (mag.) 



Batit. 

 Fruit cut transversely (mag.). 



Balis. 

 Embryo (mag.). 



Littoral saline greyish-coloured PLANTS. STEMS branched, straggling, weak. 

 LEAVES opposite, oblong-linear or obovate-oblong, sessile or sub-sessile, flat above, 

 convex below, fleshy, exstipulate. FLOWERS dioecious, arranged in 4 rows, in conical 

 oblong spikes, opposite, sessile, green. $ : FLOWERS distinct ; bracts cochleariforin, 

 obtuse or very shortly acuminate, concave, entire, persistent, close together. CALYX 

 membranous, campaiiulate, or in a compressed cup, truncate, bilabiate. PETALS 4, 

 claws united ; limb rhonaboidal. STAMENS 4, alternate with the petals, and pro- 

 jecting; filaments subulate, glabrous; anthers 2-celled, introrse, oblong, didymous, 

 incumbent, versatile, dehiscence longitudinal. OVARY rudimentary or 0. ? : 

 FLOWERS united into a fleshy spike ; bracts as in the $ , deciduous, the 2 lower united. 

 CALYX and COROLLA 0. OVARIES 8-12, coherent, and adherent to the base of the 

 bracts, 4-celled ; style ; stigma capitate, sub-bilobed ; ovules solitary, erect, anatro- 

 pous ; pericarps 4-celled, united, and forming a fleshy ovoid conical fruit ; endocarp 



