30 FLOBULA ADENENSIS. 



bra, calyce corollaque persistentibus basi cincta. — S. paniculata, Zuc- 

 car. S. crassinervia, Hochst. in Schimp. PI. Abyss, n. 2218. 

 Hub. Aden {Edgew., Hook.Jil. et T. ! T. Anders.). 

 Distr. In Arabia Petraea ! Scintle ! Abyssinia ! iEgypto ! Africa centrali ! 

 Arbuscula divaricata, glauca, 2-6-pedalis. Folia coriacea, H-4 unc. 

 longa, 5 lin.-l unc. lata; petiolus 2-A lin. longus. Bacca matura 

 rubra ! magnitudinis pisi parvi. 

 This plant is the original species on which Linnseus's genus was founded. 

 Roxburgh in his ' Coromandel Plants,' p. 26, tab. 26, referred the common 

 Indian species (S. indica of Wight's 'Icones') to S. persica, Linn., from 

 which, however, it is quite distinct. 



Salvadora Persica, L., is found in India only in Scinde, and perhaps in 

 the Punjab. The Salvadora Indica and Stocksii of Wight ( L. Persica, 

 Roxb., non Linn.) is distinguished from I,. Persica, Linn., by its distinctly 

 pedicellated flowers, broader, always ovate leaves, and darker, scarcely gla- 

 brous appearance ; it also grows to a much larger size. It is extensively 

 distributed over India and Ceylon. 



A third species (Salvadora oleoides, Decaisne, in Jacquemont, Voy. Bo- 

 tanique, p. 13.9, tab. 144), found only in the plains of North-Western India 

 from Delhi to the Indus, is readily distinguished from the preceding species 

 by itsvirgate elongated racemes with very short spikelets,and always narrow- 

 linear-lanceolate, subsessile, thickly coriaceous leaves. This is evidently 

 the S. indica, of Royle's 111. p. 319, of which, however, there is no detailed 

 description, and the S. Persica of Wight's 'Icones,' tab. 1621 A. It 

 forms a spreading subglaucous bush, from three to six feet high. It is the 

 " Puloo " of the inhabitants of the Punjab. 



Subclassis IV. Monochlamydeae. 

 Ordo XXXI. PHYTOLACCACEtE. 

 1. LiMErM, Linn. 

 Sect. Limeastrum. 

 1. L. Indicum (Stocks, MSS. in herb. Hook.). Caulibus diffusis, sub- 

 prostratis, junioribus pubescentibus ; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, ova- 

 hbus, rotundatis, acutis, mucronulatis, integris ; petiolis basi scariosis, 

 vaginantibus; cymis simplicibus axillaribus, confertis, bracteatis, foliis 

 brevioribus, 4-10-floris; petalis unguiculatis, apice truncato-dentatis ; 

 calycis segmentis ovatis, acutis, margine scariosis; staminibus 6-7, 

 petalis alternis; stylis binis; coccis duobus, glabris, monospermis. 

 Hab. Aden, in locis depressis prope mare (Hook.fil. !). 

 Distr. In Scinde ! Nubia ! 



Herba glabra vel puberulo-viscidula. Radix perennis. Caules 4-un- 

 ciales-1-pedales, teretes. Folia 2-5 lin. longa, 1-3 lin. lata; petiolus 

 1-2 lin. longus. 



