242 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
This species has a thick root and branching stem, with grey bark. The 
branches are alternate; at first upright, and then decumbent. The whole plant 
has a singular appearance, more especially when just going out of flower. It 
is generally propagated by separating the offsets, or by seeds, or it may be 
grafted on C. arboréscens. Grafted on this species, especially when the stock 
is 10 or 12 feet high, it forms a singularly picturesque pendulous tree; beau- 
tiful not only when it is in leaf or in flower, but from the graceful lines formed 
by its branches, even in the midst of winter, when they are completely stripped 
of their leaves. 
Genus XIV. 
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HALIMODE/NDRON Fisch. Tue HatimopENpDRON, or SALT TREE 
Lin. Syst. Diadélphia Decandria. 
Identification. Fisch. in Litt.; Dec. Légum. Mém., 6.; Prod., 2. p. 269.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 244. 
Synonyme. Halodéndron Dec. Mém., ined. in Soc. Phys. Gen. March 1824, but not of Petit 
Thouars. 
Derivation. From halimos, maritime, and dendron, atree ; in reference to the habitat of the shrubs, 
which grow in dry naked salt fields, by the river Irtis, i in Siberia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx urceolately campanulate, with 5 short teeth. eel obtuse, 
straightish.. Wings very acute, and auricled. Stamens diadelphous, about 
equal in length. “Style filiform, glabrous. Stigma terminal. Legume stipi- 
tate, inflated, bladdery, hard, ovate, and few-seeded, depressed at the semi- 
niferous suture. Seeds oval. (Don’s Mill.) 
Leaves compound, alternate, stipulate, deciduous ; abruptly pinnate, with 
2 pairs of leaflets: petioles and stipules spinose. Flowers bluish pink, or 
purplish, in 2—3-flowered peduncles.—Shrubs, deciduous; natives of Europe 
and Asia. 
Propagated by seeds, by cuttings of the roots, or by grafting on the common 
laburnum, or on the Caragdna arboréscens. 
% 1, H.arer’nreum Dec. The silvery-/eaved Halimodendron, or 
Salt Tree. 
Identification. Dec. Prod., 2. p. 269.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 24 
Synonymes. Robinia Halodéndron Lin. Jil. Suppl. 330., Pall. Fl. Ross, t.36.; Caragdna argéntea 
Lam. in Pall, Itin. ed. Gall. App. ii. 360. t. 83. f. 1 
Engravings. Pall. Fl. Ross., t. 36.; and our jig. iT. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves hoary. Peduncles 2-flowered. 
(Don’s Mill.) A shrub, known from the colour of its 
leaves and branches. Native of Siberia in saline 
steppes near the river Irtis. Height 
4 ft. to 6 ft. Introduced in 1779. 
Flowers bluish pink, fragrant ; May 
to July. Legume inflated, brown ; ; 
ripe in September. 
Varieties. _DeCandolle mentions two 
forms of this species : — 
x HH. u. 1 vulgdre Dec. Prod. — 
Leaves hoary or silvery. 
Standard the same length as 
the keel. 
u H. «. 2 brachyséma Dec. Prod. 
Bot. Mag., 1016.; and our fig. 398.) — Leaves 
oary or silvery. Standard shorter than the 
wings and keel. Style short. 
397) ~=«-H. argénteum. 
598. H a. brachystma 
