20 VIII. PITTOSPOEEjE. [Pittosporum. 



A small tree witli spreading branches ; leaves, young branches, and in- 

 florescence yellow-tomentose. Leaves ovate obovate or broad-lanceolate. 

 Flowers numerous, in short terminal dense panicles. Petals free, linear, 

 erect. Capsule ^ in. diam., tomentose, dividing into two broad ovate 

 thick woody valves. 



Outer Himalaya. Jumna to Sardah, between 3000 and 6500 ft. Fl. March, 

 April. Fr. June, July. Bark dark grey. 



Order IX. TAMARISCINE^. 



Shrubs, rarely trees or herbs. Leaves alternate, small, often scale-like 

 and imbricating. Stipules none. Flowers regular, usually bisexual, 

 either solitary or in spikes racemes or panicles. Sepals 5, rarely 4, free 

 or connate at the base, imbricate. Petals as many as sepals, imbricate, 

 free or united in a tube. Stamens 5, 10, or numerous, inserted on an 

 annular indented or lobed disc, with 10 glands ; anthers versatile, with 

 2 cells, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary syncarpous, of 3-5 carpels ; 

 ovules numerous, placentas 3-5, from the base of the cavity or attached 

 to the carpels, sometimes enlarged so as to divide the ovary into cells. 

 Capsule one-celled, dehiscent into 3-5 valves. Seeds either with a crest' 

 of long hairs at the apex, or winged, or covered with down all over. 

 Albumen small or wanting; embryo straight. — Gen. Plant, i. 159 ; Eoyle 

 111. 213 ; Wight lU. i. 60. 



-Stamens free or connate at base only ; styles 3-4 . . 1. Tamaeix. 

 Stamens monadelphous, stigma sessil* .... 2. Mykicaeia. 



1. TAMARIX, Linn. 



Shrubs with scale-like or inconspicuous leaves. Flowers white or 

 pink, in spikes or dense racemes. Sepals free. Petals free. Stamens 

 5-10, free or connate at base only. Ovary l-celled, placentas short at 

 the bottom of the ovary; styles 3 or 4 (rarely 2 or 5), short, thick. Seeds 

 small, smooth, not beaked, with a long coma consisting of a setiform axis 

 studded with long hairs ; albumen none. 



Leaves semi-amplexioaiil ; flowers in large panicles, composed of 



long slender'spikes i. t. gallica. 



Leaves sheathing, apex of leaf erect or adpressed to hranchlets. 



Branchlets continuous ; flowers in close cylindrical spikes . 2. T. dioica. 



Branchlets articulate ; spikes inteiTupted . . . . 3. T. articulata. 



1. T. gallica, L.— Tata. V.— "Wight lU. t. 24; W. & A. Prodr. 40; 

 Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 248.— Syn. T. indica, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 100. Sans! 

 Jhavuka. Vem. Koan, i-uhh, leinya, gliazlei, plUM, Pb.; Lei, Idi, jhau, 

 Sindh ; Telta, rgelta, Tibet ; Jhau, Behg. 



A shrub or small tree ; leaves minute, apex patent or loosely adpressed, 

 acute from a semi-amplexicaul base, not sheathing, glaucous, white- 

 niargined. Flowers mostly bisexual, pentamerous, generally white, rarely 

 pink, crowded in long slender numerous spikes, collected into panicles at 

 the ends of branches, and forming large irregular masses of flower ; lateral 

 spikes sessile or on short peduncles. Bracts shorter than flowers, semi- 



