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Okd. XXXI. TAMARICACErE Desv. 
Calyx 4 — 5-partite, persistent, free, with an imbrieative assti- 
vation. Petals 4 — 5, from the vbase of the calyx, marcescent. 
Stamens inserted into the margin of a scutellilorm disk, equal 
in number to the petals, or twice as many. Ovary superior, 
1 -celled. Styles about 3, or none. Stigmas 3, or united. Cap- 
sule 3-gonal, 3-valved, 1 -celled, with many eomose seeds on 
three placentas at the base of the cell along the middle of 
the valves. Albumen 0 — Shrubs with twiggy branches and 
small scale-like leaves. Tamarix Gallica and Africans yield 
sulphate of soda: the former, or a variety of it, also affords, 
according to Ehrenberg, the manna of Mount Sinai. 
1. Tamarix Linn. Tamarisk. 
Slam, equal, distinct. Stigmas distinct, sessile, feathery. 
Caps. 1-celled, 3-valved, many-seeded. Seeds without a beak, 
pappose. — Named from the Tamarici, a people who inhabited 
the banks of the Tamaris, now Tambra , in Spain, where the 
Tamarisk abounds. 
1 . T. * A'nglica Webb ( English T.) ; leaves quite glabrous 
somewhat narrowed at the base, flower-buds ovate, angles of 
the disk 5 acute tapering into the five filaments, anthers ovate 
apiculate, capsule rounded at the base abruptly narrowed up- 
wards. T. Gallica Sm. : Id. D. t. 1318. 
Rocks, cliffs, and sandy shores by the sea, about the Lizard and St. 
Michael’s. Cornwall; Hurst Castle and Hastings. Near Landguard 
Fort; but evidently planted. “Planted no doubt everywhere.” 
Mr. Borrer. h . 7. — Leaves minute, amplexicaul, adpressed, acute. 
Spikes lateral, somewhat panicled, slender, much longer than broad. 
Ord. XXXII. CUCURBITACEiE » Juss. 
Frequently monoecious or dioecious. Calyx 5-toothed, the 
tube adnate with the ovary. Corolla 5-cleft, often scarcely 
distinguishable from the calyx, frequently reticulated. Stamens 
5, often more or less cohering. Ovary 1-celled, inferior, with 
3 parietal receptacles. Style short. Stigmas lobed Fruit 
fleshy. Seeds flat, in a juicy aril. Embryo flat. Albumen 0. 
Cotyledons foliaceous, veined. — Succulent climbing plants, with 
extra- axillary tendrils (in the place of a stipule), frequently 
scabrous. This order contains Cucurbita, the gourd ; Ecba- 
lium purgans, the elaterium , a powerful cathartic ; Cucumis, the 
* From the corolla being gamopetalous, this is artificially near Caprifuliaceee ; 
but it is naturally nearer Passifloraccce , which has distinct petals. Some botanists 
consider the calyx a bractea, the corolla as the calyx, and remove this to Mono- 
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