82 TAMARISCINEE. [ Tamariz. 
nate, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, glossy, turning more or less yel- 
lowish in drying ; flowers small, yellow and pinkish, on rather thick 
1-13 lin. long puberulous pedicels, forming puberulous, sessile, lax 
panicles in the axils of the leaves and collected into larger ones at 
the end of the branches; sepals blunt, puberulous 3 Wings 2-24 
lin. long; ovary sessile, glabrous, the style rather slender, pubes- 
cent ; berries globular, the size of a cherry, olive-coloured , glabrous 
and smooth, 1-seeded. 
Has.—Frequent in the swamp-forests of Martaban and Tenasserim ; also 
Chittagong.—Fl. Febr.-May; Fr. May.—s.—SS.— All. Metam. 
RemMarKs.—Wood rather heavy, close-grained, tolerably soft, yellowish. 
5. X. affine, Be 
all parts glabrous ; leaves rather large, oblong to elliptical and obovate - 
oblong, on a 2-4 lin, long petiole, obtuse or acute and furnished 
TAMARISCINEZ. 
Flowers regular, usually hermaphrodite. Sepals 5 (4-6), free, 
imbricate. Petals as many, free or slightly connate at base. 
Stamens 4 to 10, free, inserted to a small annular hypogynous 
disk, or united at base; anthers 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscing. 
Ovary free, l-celled, with 3-4 placentas from the base of the cell 
bearing numerous les; stig: -4, with a sessile or 
stalked tuft of hairs. Albumen none.—Shrubs or trees, with minute 
scale-like leaves and small flowers in spikes, racemes, or panicles. 
Only 2 species of this order are found in Burma. The galls 
of the Indian species of Zumariz are highly astringent and used in 
medicine and dyeing ; the ash of 7 galiica is rich in sulphate of soda. 
TAMARIKX, L. 
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_ egllected into panicles. 
tare 2s 
seave terete almost simple branchlets ; flowers : 
rose-coloured, —— short — spikes, . T. dioica. 
white, in loose slender racemes °°) °"* _ Pediceled, 
« ZT. Gallica. 
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