27 SALVADORA PERSICA. 
Filaments four, inserted below the divisions of the corol, and rather 
shorter than them. 
Anthers oval. 
Germ globular. 
Style none. 
Stigma scabrous. 
Berry very minute, much smaller than a grain of black pepper, 
smooth, red, juicy. 
Seed one.* 
This is a middle sized tree, a native of most parts of the Circars, 
though by no means common ; it seems to grow equally well in 
every soil; flowers and bears ripe fruit all the year round. 
The berries have a strong aromatic smell, and taste much like 
garden-cresses. 
The bark of the root is remarkably acrid; bruised and applied 
to the skin it soon raises blisters, for which purpose the natives 
often use it; as a stimulant it promises to be a medicine possessed 
of very considerable powers. 
27. ARDISIA SOLANACEA. 
Conda Mayoor of the Telingas. 
Trunk one or more from the same root, erect. Bark ash-coloured. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oval, pointed, entire, smooth, glossy, 
somewhat succulent, from four to six inches long, and from two 
to three broad. 
Raceme corymbe-like, axillary, shorter than the leaf. 
Peduncle round, smooth. 
Pedicels clubbed, round, smooth. 
Bracts, a concave one below each pedicel. 
Flowers pretty large, rose-coloured. 
Calyx below, five-leaved: Leaflets imbricated, concave, roundish, 
lasting. 
Corol one-petaled: tube exceedingly short ; border five-cleft: divi- 
sions spreading, hearted. 
Filaments five, exceedingly short, from the bottom of the tube. 
Anthers oblong, acute. 
Germ oblong. 
Style awled. 
Stigma acute. 
Berry size ofa small cherry, round, juicy, black, one-seeded. 
* Description by Doctor Koenig. 
Ramuti oppositi, teretes, glabri, nitidi, articulati, ad articulos compressiusculi, et linea trans- 
versali prominula a stipulis caducis utrinque notati, flaccidi, penduli, longi. 
Folia opposita, pendula, petiolata, lanceolato-oblonga, obtusa cum acumine, integerrima, 
margine calloso, utrinque glabra, nitida, nervosa, rigida, subcarnosa. Petioli paten- 
tes, filiformes, glabri, vix longitudine tertiz partis folii. 
Flores ad apices ramorum axillares, racemosi. Racemi paniculati, trichotomi. Bractee 
- oppositz, sessiles, oblongee, membranacez, caduce. 
Calyx monophyllus, campanulatus, quadridentatus : denticulis patentibus, rotundatis, lacero- 
ciliatis; glaber, membranaceus, persistens. 
Corolla monopetala, campanulata, glabra, membranacea, quadrifida: laciniz reflex, ovate, 
acute, marginibus revolutis, pilis minimis adpressis viridibus adspersz ; calyce duplo 
major, viridi-flavicans, persistens. 
Filamenta quatuor, infra lacinias corollz adnata, patentia, brevia. Anthere oblonge, parve, 
virides. 
Germen superum, globosum, glabrum. Stylus vix ullus. Stigma hypocrateriforme, per- 
foratum. 
Bacca globosa, carnosa, pellucida, rubra, fertilis magnitudine pisi minoris. Semen unicum, 
globosum, viridi-fuscum, magnitudine piperisalbi. Baccz steriles coloris elegantioris 
et magis pellucidz sunt. 
ARDISIA SOLANACEA. 28 
A small tree, or large shrub; a native of moist places in the val- 
leys among the mountains. 
The juice of the berries is of a very beautiful bright red colour; 
upon paper it changes to a durable brown. 
28. SIDEROXYLON TOMENTOSUM. 
Trunk erect. Bark ash-coloured. 
Branches erect, very numerous. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oval, a little scolloped ; when full 
grown smooth, when young covered with much rust-coloured 
down, from three to five inches long, and one and a half broad. 
Peduncles axillary, numerous, short, downy, bowing, undivided, 
one-flowered. 
Flowers small, dirty white. 
Calyx below, five-leaved: leaflets imbricated, downy, permanent. 
Corol one-petaled: tube short, inside downy, margin five-parted : 
segments spreading, half-lanced, acute, waved. 
Nectary: five petals alternate with the filaments, waved, length of 
the stamens. 
Stamens five. ; 
Berry oval, size of an olive. 
Seed generally one or two, though there are the rudiments of five. 
A small tree, a native of the tops of the mountains chiefly; 
flowers during the hot season. ? 
29. BUTTNERIA HERBACEA. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, hearted, sawed, downy, two and a half 
inches long, and one and a half broad. 
Stipules reflex, small, acute. 
Peduncles axillary, one or more, three-flowered. 
Leaflets of the calyx large, reflex. 
Nectary one-leaved, five-toothed: teeth converging over the pistil. 
Filaments five, very short, from the fissures of the nectary, reflex. 
Anthers double, singly oval, the rest as in the genus. 
An erect herbaceous plant, a native of the tops of the mountains. 
30. STAPELIA ADSCENDENS. 
Car-allum of the Telingas. 
Root fibrous. 
Stems several, perennial, succulent, about a foot or two high, at the 
base they rest on the ground, and strike root; above erect, four- 
sided: angles blunt, notched. 
Branches erect, like the stems. 
Leaves alternate, sessile, on the angles of the branches, lanced, very 
minute. 
Flowers axillary, about the extremities of the branches, peduncled, 
generally single, erect, small, variegated with dark purple and 
yellow. 
Calyx to the bottom five-cleft: divisions lanced. 
