﻿PLATE DXXXI. 



N I T R A RIA SCHOBERI; 



Schobers Nitraria. 



CLASS XL ORDER I. 



DODECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Twelve Chives. One Pointal. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx 5-fidus. Stamina 15. 



Drupa 1-sperma. Empalement 5-cleft. Chives 15. 





1) seeded. 





SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Nitraria foliis integerrimis, 



obtusis. || Nitraria with entire leaves, blunt. 



Habitat in Siberia. 



Native of Siberia. 



Pallas's Flora Rossica, vol 



i. tab. 50. II 





REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 





1. The empalement. 





2. A petal. 





3. Seed-bud, chives, and pointal. 





4. A chive magnified. 





5. Seed-bud and pointal. 





6. The same magnified. 



This species of Nitraria is named after Schober, a physician and lover of botany in Russia. It P * 

 in the barren salt deserts near the Caspian Sea, particularly about the salt lakes in Siberia, and is 

 found in Astracan. It bears reddish berries of a salt taste, is a very rare plant in our garden M 

 successfully cultivated by Mr. Bell, who not only puts salt to the roots, but also on the folk**- fro© 

 a plant of his thus treated our drawing was made last summer. Only one more species of the gc° 

 has yet been discovered. 



