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1. Tamarix. Pet. 5 or 4. Stam. 5 or 4 inserted on a hypo- 
gynous ring. Styles 3 patent. Seeds affixed at tlie base 
of the caps, with a sessile coma or pappus-like pencil or 
tuft of simple hairs at the apex. 
1. Tamarix L. 
tttl. T. GALLICA L. Tamarisk. Tamagueira. 
Smooth not at all glaucous; 1. keeled cordate-lanceolate or 
ovate-acuminate imbricate amplexicaul mostly narrowed and 
produced into a spur below the base ; spikes lateral panicled, 
about four times as long as broad, cylindric-oblong, obtuse; 
fl. buds shortly globose-ovate or ovoid ; hypogynouS disk or 
ring fleshy irregularly 5-lobed, each lobe often indistinctly 
notched ; fil. inserted in or behind the notch ; anthers shortly 
apiculate ; caps, pyramidate trigonal attenuated gradually up- 
wards from the base. — Desf. i. 269; Brot. i. 475; EB. 1. 1318; 
Sm. E. Fl. ii. Ill; El. Gr. t. 291; I)C. iii. 96; Koch 274. 
T. anglica Bab. 116. T. gallica and T. anglica Webb in Hook. 
Journ. of Bot. iii. 429, 430. 1. 15. T. canariensis (Willd.) WB. ! 
i. 171. t. 25. T. senegalensis DC. iii. 96. — Slir. or subarborescent 
per. Mad. reg. 1, rr, only in a few gardens, e. g. Quinta do Yal ; 
whence introduced in 1834 by S r Joao Antonio Pedroso into 
PS. it is now almost naturalized, spreading over the whole island 
in reg. 1, 2, ccc. April-June. — A smooth reddisli-barked shrub 
or low tree from 10 to 20 ft. high with red-barked numerous 
elegant feathery slender upright or slightly drooping branches, 
and minute cypress-like 1. which when dry are distinctly punctate. 
Fl. pale rose or pinkish-white small in densely crowded lateral 
spikes about an inch long and \ inch broad forming large ele- 
gant subterminal drooping panicles. Sep. pet. and stam. 5; 
the latter scarcely longer than the oblong obtuse concave 
spreading pet. Anth. apiculate. Hypog. disk normally 8-10- 
lobed, the lobes united in pairs, often indistinct or obsolete. 
Caps, trigonal bulbous with an abrupt neck. — A most valuable 
acquisition to Porto Santo for fences and firewood. 
Order X. FBAHKENIACEiE. 
The Sea-Heath Family, v 
Fl. perfect regular. Cal. persistent ; sep. 5 or 4 united nearly 
to the top into a long ribbed or furrowed 5-tootlied tube. Pet. 
5 or 4 marcescent with a long claw and the limb with a scale 
or appendage at its base. Stam. mostly 6 rarely so few as the 
pet. and then alternate; anth. roundish. Ovary free; style 
slender 2-3-fid. Caps, within the calyx-tube 1-celled 2-4- 
valved septicidal with 3 parietal placentas. Seeds minute 
