22 LXXXIII, SALVADORACEH: (BAKER). | Dobera. 
A.DC. and D. coriacea. A.DC. in DC. Prod. xvii. 31.  Schizocalyx 
coriaceus, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. i. 108, partly. 
Nile Land. Er:trea: near Amba Forkhan, Schweinfurth & Riva, 620! near 
Ginda, 2900-3400 ft., Schweinfurth g Riva, 2241! Kordofan: Katul Gombara, 
Pfund, 208! Helba, Pfund, 692! near Homra, Murie/, 178! Abyssinia: Modat 
Valley, Schimper, 1744! British East Africa ; Mombasa, Wakefield ! 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa: in mangrove swamps opposite Zan- 
zibar, Kirk ! 
Also in Arabia and India. 
2. D. loranthifolia, Warb. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
Nachtr. zu ii.iv. 282. <A tree 18-34 ft, high; branches terete, 
ashy-white, glabrous. Leaves broadly obovate or elliptic, 14-2 in. 
long, 10-14 lin. broad, subcuneate and obtuse at the base, apex 
scarcely acute; midrib prominent beneath, thick at the base, thinner 
upwards; veins 3-4 on each side, the basal very obliquely ascending, 
very prominent (as well as the tertiary) on both surfaces; petiole 2— 
24 in. long. Inflorescence many-flowered, axillary and terminal, half 
as long as the leaves ; peduncles, pedicels and calyx minutely tomentose ; 
bracts very small ; flowers 1-1} lin. long. Calyx about 1 lin. long, } lin. 
in diam.; lobes very short, broad, obtuse. Petals twice as long as 
the calyx, glabrous. Stamens 4, glabrous; filaments connate into a 
tube; anthers sagittate. Disk of 4 glands alternating with the stamens. 
Ovary 1-celled, glabrous; ovules 2, basal, or from a short ascending 
placenta, anatropous.—Platymitium loranthifolium, Warb. in Engl. Pf. 
Ost-Afr. C. 279, t. 31; Solereder in Bericht. Deutsch. Bot. Gesell. xiv. 
(1896) 264. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Masheua, 1600 ft., Holst, 
8796! Lake Yipe, near Kilimanjaro, 2200 ft., Volkens. 
This plant was originally referred to Flacourtiacee. 
2. AZIMA, Lam.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 681. 
Calyx-tube campanulate; lobes short, obtuse, usually 4. Petals 4, 
free, linear. Stamens 4, free, alternate with the petals ; filaments free, 
filiform; anthers ovoid; glands 0. Ovary ovoid, 2-celled ; style 
scarcely any; stigma large, emarginate; ovules 1-2 in a cell, subbasal, 
erect. Berry globose, often by abortion 1-seeded; endocarp mem- 
branous. Seed globose; testa thick, coriaceous.—Shrubs with sarmen- 
tose branches, armed with large pungent spines. Leaves opposite, 
coriaceous, entire. Flowers very small, dicecious, arranged in axillary 
clusters or congested panicles. 
Species 3; also in South Africa, the Mascarene Jslands and Tropical Asia. 
Petals twice as long as t:e calyx . : : - lL. A. tetracantha. 
Petals half as long again as the calyx. - - 2, A. spinosissima. 
1. A. tetracantha, Lam.; A.DC. in DC. Prod, xvii, 29. A shrub 
with long sarmentose tetragonal branches ; spines 2~4 from a node, 
