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half as long as the leaves; bracts oblong, deciduous. Calyx-tube cam- 
panulate; teeth 4, obtuse, 4 the length of the tube. Corolla-tube half 
as long as the orbicular lobes.—Mayepea Welwitschii, Knobl. in Engl. 
Jahrb. xvii. 530; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 658. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; in dense forests by the cataracts of 
the River Cuango, near Sange, Welwitsch, 945! 946. 
Order LXXXIII. SALVADORACEA., (By J. G. Baker.) 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or polygamo-dicecious. Calyx cam- 
panulate, 3-5-lobed. Corolla-segments 4—5, imbricate, free or united. 
Stamens usually 4, hypogynous or inserted on the corolla-tube ; fila- 
ments short, free or monadelphous, sometimes alternating with small 
scales ; anthers short, dorsifixed. Ovary 1—2-celled ; style very short; 
stigma capitate or emarginate ; ovules 1—2 in a cell, basal, anatropous. 
Berry fleshy or subdrupaceous ; endocarp thin. Seed usually solitary, 
exalbuminous; cotyledons thick; radicle inferior.—Shrubs or trees, 
sometimes spiny. Leaves opposite, entire, coriaceous; rudimentary 
stipules sometimes present. Flowers small, arranged in panicles or 
axillary fascicles. 
Species 7, confined to the warmer regions of Africa and Asia. 
Petals free. 
Branches unarmed. Stamens monadelphous . . 1. DOBERA. 
Branches spinose. Stamens free . : : 7 2. AZIMA. 
Petals united into a short tube . é : : . 3. SALVADORA. 
1. DOBERA, Juss.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 680. 
Calyx campanulate, irregularly 3—5-lobed. Petals 4—5, free, oblong, 
spreading. Stamens 4—5, hypogynous ; filaments dilated and united at 
the base, with small glands alternating with them; anthers oblong. 
Ovary 1-celled; style short; stigma capitate; ovules 1-2, basal, erect. 
Drupe ellipsoid. Seed erect; testa cartilaginous.— Unarmed trees, with 
broad coriaceous opposite leaves. Flowers small, polygamous, in axillary 
panicles, 
Species 2, 1 extending to India. 
Ovule 1 é s “i : : ; 5 . Ll. D. Roxburghii. 
Ovules 2 : : : : : : : . 2. D. loranthifolia. 
1. D. Roxburghii, Planch. in Ann. Se. Nat. sér, 3, x. 191. A 
large tree, with branchlets finely pubescent upwards. Leaves cori- 
aceous, very variable in shape, 2-3 in. long, ovate or obovate, acute or 
obtuse, deltoid at the base, glabrous above when mature, thinly clothed 
with obscure whitish pubescence beneath; petiole very short. Panicles 
all axillary, erecto-patent, shorter than the leaves; rhachis white- 
tomentose; pedicels 0. Calyx pale green, ;4,-} in. long. Petals twice 
as long as the calyx, spreading. Filaments united more than halfway 
up. Drupe ellipsoid, 4-3 in. long, obtuse or pointed.—D. glabra, 
