Volume 8 — PLATE DXXIX.

NITRARIA SCHOBERI.

Schober’s Nitraria.

CLASS XI. ORDER I.

DODECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Twelve Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla 5-petala, cucullata.

Calyx 5-fidus. Stamina 15. Drupa 1-sperma.

Blossom five-petalled, hooded.

Empalement 5-cleft. Chives 15. Berry oneseeded.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Nitraria foliis integerrimis, obtusis.

Habitat in Siberia.

Pallas’s Flora Rossica, vol. i. tab. 50.

Nitraria with entire leaves, blunt.

Native of Siberia.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This species of Nitraria is named after Schober, a physician and lover of botany in Russia. It grows in the barren salt deserts near the Caspian Sea, particularly about the salt lakes in Siberia, and is also found in Astracan. It bears reddish berries of a salt taste, is a very rare plant in our gardens, but successfully cultivated by Mr. Bell, who not only puts salt to the roots, but also on the foliage. From a plant of his thus treated our drawing was made last summer. Only one more species of the genus has yet been discovered.