Saliz.] 80. SALICINE^E. 109 



S. babylonica, Linn. ; Fl. Br. I. 5. G29 ; Brandis For. Fl. 405. Cul- 

 tivated at Bclgaum and elsewhere throughout the presidency. 



Order 81. GNETACE^. 



Climbinpf shrubs with jointed stems. Leaves opposite, broad or 

 scale like. Flowers monoecious or dioecious, in axillary or terminal 

 bracteate spikes. Male flowers. Sepals 2-4 or tubular. Anthers 2-8 

 sessile or on a column of the connate filaments. Female flower. An 

 erect ovule terminating above in a long tubular prolongation of its 

 coat, resembling a style, and enclosed in an undivided perianth. 

 Seed dry or drupaceous. 



Nearly leafless shrubs .„ ... Ephedra. 



Shrubs with broad leaves ... Gnetum. 



EPHEDRA Linn, 



Shrubs or undershrubs with nodose stems, branches articulate. 

 Leaves reduced to a membranous sheath with 2 opposite lobes. 

 Flowers dioecious in sessile or pedunculate spikes, opposite, in 

 pairs or whorled, bracteate. Male flower; perianth of 2 membran- 

 ous, opposite sepals. Anthers 2-10 sessile or stipitate. Female fl., a 

 naked ovule with the outer coat produced into a styliform tube. 



E. vulgaris, Rich. Conif. 2G ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 640. Upper Sind 1 



E. peduncularis. Boiss. Fl. Orient. V. 717 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 641 ; E. AUe, 

 Brandis For. Fl. 501. Plains of Sind. Fl. Mch., Apl. Fr. ripe May. 



GNETUM, Linn. 



Climbing shrubs with jointed branches. Leaves elliptic, petiolate, 

 penninerved. Flowers monoecious, in the axils of cup-shaped bracts 

 and mixed with articulate hairs. Male fl. monandrous, protruding 

 from a thick clavate sheath, slits terminal. Female fl. Ovule 

 ovoid, inner integument with a toothed or fimbriate mouth. Fruit 

 an oblong drupe. 



G. scandens, Roxh. Fl. Ind. III. 518 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 642 ; Brandis 

 For. Fl. 5U2 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 246. Kiwibal, umhli. Through- 

 out the moist forests of the Konkan and North Kanara ; very common 

 in the evergreen forests of the Supa ghdts. Fl. Mch.- Apl. Fr. ripe 

 June. 



0bder82. PALM^. 



Trees or shrubs, erect or climbing. Leaves pinnately or palmate- 

 ly divided, segments linear or lanceolate, folded longitudinally with 

 numerous parallel nerves. The segments of the palmatifid leaves 

 are frequently bifid, those of the pinnate leaves entire or irregularly 

 lobed. Petiole broad based, usually amplexicaul or sheathing. 

 Inflorescence terminal or axillary of simple or panicled spikes, 

 enclosed when young in usually more than one spathe. Each flower 



