11983, Beemodium umbelletum (1.) BC. A widely spread- 
ing shrub in sandy half brackish soil near the sea-coast, 
atems several from the same root cluster, saseending, ultimate- 
ly numerously rebranched: wood soft, whit ish; bark brown, 
numerously covered with lenticells: twigs lax, horizontally 
apreading: leaves submembranoug, slightly glaucous beneath: 
inflorescent divaricate or subpendulous, greenish except the 
pure white petals; slightly but eweetly fragrant: pods a 
few inches long or leas, yellowish green, flattened, con- 
stricted, usually curved: "Caubol.” Todays, Cetober, 1909, 
11984, Tristillateia australasics Rich, A shrubby 
climber in or over dense thickete near the sea-coast: branches 
brown, covered with similerly colored lenticelle, terete, 
subpenduleus, the twigs greenish; leavee coriaceous, folded 
upon the upper surface, tips recurved, similar green beneath; 
inflorescence guberect, ®ll the stalks creen, eslyx also 
greenish: petals light yellow: filaments in the young state 
yellow, but goon turning to 2 deep brick red; ovary pale 
gteent style pale yellow; seede greenish: "“Caulogpsu. “ 
Todays, GVetober, 1909. ‘ ; 
11985,  Deemodium eapitatum (L.) DC, Prostrately 
spreading perennial herbs in half sandy 9011 near the ses- 
coast: atem long, branched #11 along, flexible, terete, 
green, 1/3 inch thick: Leaves horizontaly or ascending, 
membranous, only slightly curved upon the upper more or 
lees blotched ecreen surface, canescent beneath; inflores- 
cent erect, the bracts and calyx greenish, corollas pur} 
plieh pink, odorless: pods thin, flattened and constricted, 
deflexed, forming dense mate and its foliage ought to 
prove valuable green feed for stock: “Calepikid." Todsya, 
Qetober, 190d. 
11986. Geriops tagal (Perr.) ©. B. Rob. Gnarly 
shrubelike tree in brackish muddy places near the const: 
roots serial: stem 1/2 foot thick, freely rebranched from 
near the base; branches divaricate, the ultimate ones 
slender and lax: wood whitish, hard, heavy, bitter; bark 
grayish or brown, roughened with wart-like excrescences: 
leaves rigidfeorisceous, ssemding, curved upon the lower 
paler green eurface; inflorescence divaricate or subpene- 
dulous, greentdh; fruite dark green, pendulous, obscurely 
widged, and with Lenticells, separating at the articulation 
outside of the rigid brownish ealyx cup: “Tongoe”. 
Tongal @ the commercial bark for use ss a ferment and 4 
dye. Todays, October, 1909, 
11987. Sesbanis eannabine Pere, Shrub 7 feet high, 
in brackish goil near the coast: branches slender, epresding: 
bark brown or yellowish grey, smooth, green on the branches, 
wood soft, with a large pith: leaflets membranous, paler 
green beneath; the exposed portion of the twigs reddish; 
inflorescence subpendulous, the flowers odorless; benner 
purplish brown spotted on the outside, otherwiee like the 
wings deep yellow, keel creamy yen yellow: pods terete, ~~ 
6 to 8 inches long, usually curved; seeds brown, subeylrnri 
"“Loguieuwa.” Todays, Oetober, 1909. \ 
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