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cemes terminal and axillary, shorter than the leaves: ovary 1« 
celled, 4-ovuled: flowers yellow. 
Courtallum. 
(4) X. unputatum. (RK, W.) 
Ident. Wight’s Ill. I. p. 50. 
Srzc. Cuan. Leaves elliptic, oblong, undulated on the margin, 
acuminated: ovary 1-celled, 4-ovuled, 
Courtallum. 
(5) X. Roxsurcuranum. (RK. W.) 
Ident. Wight’s Ill. I. p. 50. 
Sprc. Cuan. Leaves broadly elliptical, acuminated: racemes 
axillary and terminal, shorter than the leaves, subsecund: ovary 
t-celled, 4-ovuled. 
Courtallum and Shevagherry Hills, in woods and thickets, 
ORDER XVI. TAMARICACEZ. 
Shrubs or herbs: leaves alternate, scale-like, entire: flowers 
racemose, or in dense spikes: calyx 4-5-parted, persistent, im- 
bricated in estivation: petals 4-5, withering, attached to the 
base of the calyx: stamens hypogynous, equal fo or twice the 
number of the petals, distinct or monadelphous: ovary 1-celled ; 
stigmas distinct or united: anthers turned inwards, opening 
lengthwise: capsule 3-valved, 1-celled, many-seeded: placentes 
8, either at the base of the capsule, or along the middle of the 
valves: seeds erect, comose: albumen none. 
GENUS I. TAMARIX. 
Pentandria Trigynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriw. From the river Tamaris, in the Pyteneés, where the 
species are abundant. 
Gzn. Cuan. Sepals 5, distinct: petals 4~5: stamens distinct, 
without any intermediate gland: torus fleshy, with twice as many 
teeth on the margin as there are stamens: seeds not beaked, co- 
mose at the extremity: flower-bearing branchlets usually panicled. 
(1) T. Gauuica. (Linn.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 40. 
