738 



CCXXII. BATIDE^. 



CCXXII. BATIDE^. LindL 



Uatis maritima. S plant. 



B, maritiina. S catkin. 



Balls. 9 plant. 



Satis. 9 catkin (mag.). 



Batis. 

 Mower <? -sVith Ma.ct (mag.). 



Balls. 

 9 spike cut vertically (mag.). 



g Balis. 

 Calyx (mag.). 



Balls. 

 Fruit cut transversely (mag.). 



Balis. 

 Seed (magO. 



Balis. 

 Embryo (mag.). 



Littoral saline greyish-coloured plants. Stems branched, straggling, weak. 

 Leaves opposite, oblong-linear or obovate-oblong, sessile or sub-sessile, flat above, 

 convex below, fleshy, exstipulate. Flowbes dioecious, arranged in 4 rows, in conical 

 oblong spikes, opposite, sessile, green. — $ : Flowers distinct ; bracts cochleariform, 

 obtuse or very shortly acuminate, concave, entire, persistent, close together. Calyx 

 membranous, campanulate, or in a compressed cup, truncate, bilabiate. Petals 4, 

 claws united ; limb rhomboidal. Stamens 4, alternate with the petals, and pro- 

 jecting ; filaments subulate, glabrous ; anthers 2-celled, introrse, oblong, didymous, 

 incumbent, versatile, dehiscence longitudinal. Ovaet rudimentary or 0. — ? : 

 Floweks imited into a fleshy spike ; bracts as in the $ , deciduous, the 2 lower united. 

 Caltx and coeolla 0. Ovaries 8-12, coherent, and adherent to the base of the 

 bracts, 4-celled ; style ; stigma capitate, sub-bilobed ; ovules solitary, erect, anatro- 

 pous ; pericarps 4-celled, united, and forming a fleshy ovoid conical fruit ; endocarp 



