680 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUMs 
interior pair, the latter resembling petals; or 4-parted, with the lobes. 
equal. Stamens 6. Stigmas 2, in one species; style bifid, in the other. 
Fruit compressed, in one species ; roundish, in the other. (G. Don.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, sub-evergreen ; small, more or less 
ovate. Flowers terminal, white, tinged with pink. — Shrubs, spinose, low, 
decumbent; natives of the South of Europe. Culture as in Tragopyrum. 
= 1, A.sptno’sa L. The spine-branched Atraphaxis. 
Identification. Lin. Hort. Cliff., 138.; Willd. Sp. Pl., 2. p. 248. 
Synonyme. A'triplex orientalis, frutex aculeatus, flbre pilchro, Tourn. 
Cor, 83. 
Engravings. Deud. Brit., t. 119.; and our jig. 1325. 
Spec. Char., §c. Spinose, with the branches ascending, 
. horizontal, or deflexed. Leaves glaucous, 3 in. long, 
or less ; disk ovate, acute, petiole short. Calyx of 4 
leaves. (Willd:) A low sub-evergreen shrub. Borders of 
the Caspian Sea and the Levant. Height 2 ft. to 3 ft. 
Introd. 1732. Flowers white, tinged with pink; 
August. Seeds brown, occasionally ripened. 
It thrives best in sandy peat, and is propagated 
by layers. So elegant and rare a plant deserves 
a place in every choice collection. 
2. Ad. unpULA‘TA ZL. The waved-leaved 
Atraphaxis. 
1525. A. spindsa. Identification. Lin. Hort. Cliff., 137. ; Willd. Sp. Pl., 2. p. 249. 
Engravings. Will. Elth., t. 32. f, 36. ; and our fig.1326. 
Spec. Char., §c. Less rigid than A. spinosa, and not spiny. Leaves « 
ovate, waved at the edges, and of a greenerhue. Calyx 4-parted, 
lobes equal, ovate, and concave. Stamens lanceolate. Style bifid. ~Y 
Fruit roundish. ee Alow shrub. Cape of Good Hope.  tses 
Height 6 in. to 1 ft. Introd. 1732, rare. Flowers whitish; June and July. 
Genus III. 
Lwctiti } 
CALLYGONUM ZL. Tue Catticonum. Lin. Syst. Dodecandria Tetra- 
gynia. 
Identification. Lin. Gen., 680.; Willd. Sp. P1., 2. p. 926. 
Synonymes. Pallasia L., Pterocéccus Pall. 
Derivation. Kallos, beauty, gonu, a knee; in description of the neat and jointed character of the 
branches. 
Gen. Char., §c. Calyx inferior, persistent, turbinate in the lower part, ending 
upwards in a 5-parted spreading border ; the two outer lobes rather smaller. 
Stamens about 16; the filaments slightly united at the base, and then 
diverging. Anthers peltate. Germen 4-sided, acuminate. Styles 4 or 3. 
Stigmas capitate. Fruit an achenium, that has 4 sides and 4: wings. (G. 
Don.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, deciduous ; caducous, minute. 
Shoots rush-like, smooth, green. Flowers in groups, whitish.—Shrub erect, 
evergreen from the colour of the shoots, natives of Siberia. Layers. ' 
& 1. C. Patva’sz4 L’Hérit. Pallas’s Calligonum. 
Identification. L’Heérit. Stirp., 2. p. 37.; Willd. Sp. Pl., 2. p. 927. 
Synonymes. Pteroc6ccus aphYllus Pall. Voy. 2. p. 738. t. 8.; Calligonum polygondides Pail. Itin. 
3. p. 536. ; Pallaséa céspica Lin. fil. Suppl. 252. Savigny in Encycl.; Pallasta Pterocéccus Pall. 
Fl. Ross. 2. p. 70. t. 77, 78. 5 Caspischer Hackenknopf, Ger. 
Engravings. Pall. Fl. Ross., 2. t. 77, 78. ; and our figs. 1237. and 1238. 
Spee. Char. §e. Fruit winged; wings membranous, curled, and toothed. 
