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style none: stigmas 2—3: utricle depressed, enclosed in the 

 calyx: pericarp with a very thin pellicle, not adherent: seed 

 horizontal, lenticular, with a double integument.— Herbs or under- 

 shrubs indigenous to sea-shores : leaves alternate, sessile, fleshy : 

 flowers axillary, sometimes adnate at the base of the leaves, 

 sessile, or very shortly pedicelled : bracteoles whitish, transparent. 



(1) C. iNDtOA. (JS. W.) 

 Ident. Wight's Icon. vol. V. & t. 1793. 



Spec. Chab. Shrubby, diffuse, procumbent, very branchy, 

 glabrous: leaves succulent, small oblong, somewhat elavate: 

 flowers glomerulate, fructiferous: calyx globose, not inflated, 

 green : seed depressed, glabrous, shining, brown. 



Sea-coast in Tinnevelly. 



GENUS VIII. CAEOXTLON. 



Pentandria I>lgynla. Sex: Syst: 



GrBN. Chae. Mowers hermaphrodite, bibracteate: calyx 5- 

 sepaled : sepals finally transversely winged at the back, erect, or 

 rarely reflexed in fruit : filaments often distinct : anthers oblong, 

 often appendiculate : staminodes none : nectary cup-shaped, ob 

 tusely 5 — 10-angled at the margin : style elongate or shortish 

 stigmas 2, subulate or ovate, smooth at the back, diverging 

 fruit depressed, clothed with the capsule, and 5-winged calyx 

 seed horizontal, with a simple membranaceous integument. — 

 Herbs or undershrubs, with alternate or opposite, sessile, fleshy 

 leaves, and axUlary, sessile, solitary flowers : wings often dilated, 

 very obtuse, membranaceous, scariose, unequal or nearly equal. 



(1) C. ImiCTJM. (B. W.) 

 Ident. Wight's Icon. V. & t. 1794. 



Spec. Chak. Fruticose, erect, very branchy: branches op- 

 posite, spreading : leaves fleshy, oval, sessile, glabrous : floriferous 

 leaves exceeding the flowers : sepals ovate, bidentate at the apex : 

 wing at flrst small, afterwards enlarging : fllaments adhering at 

 the base to the 5-toothed cup : anthers cuspidate : wings of the 

 fruit orbicular, spreading, scariose. 



Coimbatore, flowering in January. This genus is very nearly 

 allied to Salsola, from which it principally differs in the cup- 

 shaped nectary enclosing tUe base of the ovary. 



