Taimrix.] xx. tamariscine^. (W. T. Thiselton Dyer.) 249 



. A glabrous glaucous shrub, with the habit of. T. paexerinoides, Del. ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, i. 778. Bracts linear, equalling the flowers in length. Stamens equalling the 

 ovary; filaments dilated at the base, confluent with the diak-glands. Stigmas sessile. 

 Capsule not seen. 



3. T. diolca, Roxb. Hort. £mg. 22 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 101 ; leaves sheathing, 

 lowers dicecious in rather short dense peduncled spikes. Grif. N-otid. 

 iv. 465, ic. 577, f. 2 ; Wall. Gat. 1241 ; W. S; A. Frodn-. 40 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, i. 777. T. articulata, Wall. Cat. 3756, b & c {not of VaM). 



From SiNDH and the Pahjab to Assam, the Western Peninsula and Bikma, near 

 rivers and on the si'a coast. 



A small tree. Branches with drooping extremities ; ultimate branchlets elongate, 

 patent-fastigiate. Leaves glabrous, green, obliquely truncate and acuminate. Spikes 

 panicled, 1-2 in., about equalling their peiluncles. Bracts triangular, acuminate. 

 Viewers J in. diam., pink. Stamens inserted in the notches of the 5-lobed disk ; 

 Anthers purple. 



4. T. articulata, Vahl, Symh. ii. 48, t; 32 ; hoary with impress-punctate 

 glands, leaves sheathing, spikes lax usually sessile. Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 777. 

 T.orientalis, Forsh. Bescr. 206. T. Pharas, Ham. ex Wall. Cat. 3758. Thuya 

 aphylla, Linn. Amaen. Acad. iv. 295. 



Abundant in Sindh and the Panjab; often cultivated. — Distbib. Beluchistan and 

 westward to Egypt and S. Africa. 



A bush or coniferous-looking tree. Branchlets fastigiate, elongate, slender, oylindric, 

 jointed. Leaves reduced to a very short sheath with a minute tooth. Spikes slender, 

 more or less interrupted. Bracts sheathing, acute. Flowers | in. diam., subsessile. 

 Stamens inserted in alternate notches of the 10 lobed disk. — The Cape form is T. 

 usnemdes, E. Mey. 



** Stamens 10. {Pleiandrce. Bge.) 



5. T. ericoides, Rottl. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cw. Berol. iv. 214, t. 4 ; leaves 

 impunctate sheathing-amplexicaul, glands of the disk separating the fila- 

 ments. T. mucronata, Smith in Rees Cyol. T. tenacissima, Ham. ex Wall. 

 Cat. 3757. Myricaria vaginata, Besv. in Ann. Sc. Nat. iv. 350. Trichaurus 

 ericoides, W. & A. Proch-. 40 ; Wight lU. t. 24 B ; Ic. 22 ; Camh. in Jacq. 

 toy. Boi. 58, t. 70. 



Centeal India, Bengal, the Western Peninsula and Ceylon. 



A shrub; stems slender, branchlets fastigiate. Leaves minute, scale-like, ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers \ in. diam., pale rose-pink, in terminal racemes 4-6 in. 

 Stamens not exceeding the petals, alternately long and short. Capsule 4 in. — Approaches 

 Myricaria in habit. 



6. T. strlcta, Bmss. Fl. Orient, i, 778; hoary with impress-punctate 

 glands, leaves closjely sheathing, glands of the disk passing into the slightly 

 dilated bases of the filaments. 



Sindh, Stocks. — Dibteib. Beluchistan. 



Habit of T. articulata, Vahl, from which according to Boissier it is distinguished by 

 the thicker branchlets more remote leaves and subsessile stigmas, besides the different 

 number of stamens. 



2. XISVSXCAIIXA, Desv. 



Fastigiate shrubs. Leaves small, narrow, sessile, often crowded. Iriflo- 

 rescence of lateral or terminal spike-like racemes ;. flowers rose-pi iik. Sta- 

 mens 10, alternately long and short, monadelphous. Bisk almost obsolete. 

 Ovary tapering with 3 sessile stigmas ; placentas basal, very short, adnate to 

 the middle of the valves ; ovules many. Seeds exalbuminous with a usually 



