Tamarie. } TAMARISCINEA. 241 
C. Bengal ; beeen somewhat common in the cae 
bourhood of Caleu 
An American nahin weed. This, which is the T. 
Repeat ahi: of the F. L., is not the J. cunetfoliwm 
the .I. The latter is a species indigenous in India ; 
it ay nat, however, occur in Bengal. 
Order XVII. TAMARISCINEA. 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, minute, often scale- 
like, imbricate, sometimes sheathing, occasionally fleshy ; stipules 
simple or panicled axillary spikes. Disk of 10 hypogynous or 
subperigynous glands. Sepals 5, rarely 4, imbricate. Petals 5, 
rarely 4, free or connate below. Stamens 4-5, or 8-10, rarely more, 
2-celled versatile, often apiculate; dehiscence longitudinal 
lateral. Carpels 8-5, united as a free 1- locular or imperfectly 3-5- 
locular ovary with 8-5 septiform placentas free or somewhat 
connate at the centre, or somewhat united with ovarian W 
their peripheral margin, sometimes extending to top of ovarian 
ber ; styles free or connate with apical stigmas, oF stigmas 
sessile, as many as the placentas; ovules Q-many on eac 
Placenta, satoootis with raphe ventral. Fruit a Futbleaen 
capsule. Seeds erect, usually more or less comose, OF winged ; 
albumen mealy or fleshy or 0; embryo straight. 
73. Tamarix Linn. 
Small trees or bushes; leaves scale-like, sheathing and stem- 
clasping. Flowers white or pink, in lateral or terminal spikes 
or dense racemes, occasionally dicecious. Sepals free, 4-5, rarely 
6. Petals 4-5, rarely 6, inserted below the angled or lobed or 
crenate disk. Stamens 4-5 or 8-10, rising from the disk; filaments — 
free or connate at their bases ; anthers apiculate. Ovary narrows 
sabe styles 8-4, short, dilated into the stigmas ; ovules many 
& basal placenta. Seeds with a sessile coma; albumen 0; 
oe ovoid. 
Stamens 5; disk 5-lobed :-— 
Leaves not sheathing; racemes long, slender ...-------2.777°7177'7 
Leaves sh sheathing; racemes shorter, dense ; flowers dicecious - _ dioica. 
Stamens 10; glands of disk ee the filaments ; leaves RTO 
gallica. 
