Azima. | LXXXIII, SALVADORACE (BAKER). 2% 
straight, woody, often 1 in. or more long. Leaves oblong, mucronate, 
1-2 in. long; petiole very short. Flowers in clusters or short panicles 
with congested branches in the axils of the leaves; bracts ovate, acute. 
Calyx 5’; in. long; teeth short. Petals greenish-white, linear, twice as 
long as the calyx. Berry whitish, } in. diam.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. 
Welw. i. 659. Monetia barlerioides, L’Herit.; Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. 
1. 474 
Nile Land. Uganda, Scott-Hlliot, 7219! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo, Smith! Angola: along the coast region of 
Loanda, Rattray! Welwitsch, 942! 4649, 5493! Icolo e Bengo; nzar Dafunda, 
Welwitsch, 943. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Dar-es-Salaam, Kirk / Portuguese 
East Africa: Zambesi Delta; Vicente, Scott! Lower Zaimbesi; Tete, Kirk ! 
Shizozo, Kirk / 
Also in South Africa, the Mascarene Isl nds and Tropical Asia. 
2. A. spinosissima, “nyl. Juhrb. xix. 147. Branclilets and 
young leaves shortly pubescent, mature glabrescent. Stipular spines 
1}-2 in. long. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, conspicuously 
mucronate, 1} in. long. Inflorescence a spike composed of sessile 5- 
flowered congested cymes ; bracts lanceolate, mucronate. Calyx yz in. 
long; teeth half as long asthe tube. Petals lanceolate, half as long 
again as the calyx, 
Lower Guinea. (ierman South-west Africa: Damaraland ; Otyimbinzue, 
Gurich, 60. 
3. SALVADORA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 681. 
Calyx-tube broadly campanulate; segments 4, ovate, obtuse. 
Corolla-tube very short; segments 4, broad, obtuse. Stamens 4, 
inserted in the corolla-tube; filaments free, very short, slightly 
flattened ; anthers orbicular ; glands sometimes present. Ovary ovoid, 1- 
celled; style very short ; stigma capitate; ovule |, basal, erect. Drupe 
globose; endocarp chartaceous. Seed erect, globose; testa thin.— 
Shrubs or small trees, with unarmed branches. Leaves opposite, 
entire, coriaceous. Flowers very small, subunisexual, panicled. 
A second species in Arabia and India. 
1. S. persica, Garcin ; DC. Prod. xvii. 28. A much-branched 
shrub or small tree, glabrous in all its parts, covering sometimes an 
area of 80 ft.; branchlets white, terete. Leaves oblong, coriaceous, 2-3 
in. long, rarely ovate or suborbicular, pale green; petiole t—} in. long. 
Panicles copiously produced from the end of the branchlets and axils 
of the upper leaves; pedicels very short; bracts minute. Calyx pale 
green, under } lin.long. Corolla greenish-white,'; in. long. Stamens 
shorter than the corolla. Drupe the size of a pea.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. 
Pl. Welw. i. 659; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl, Aethiop. 163; Oliver in Trans. 
Linn, Soc. xxix. 106. |S. crassinervia, Hochst. in Schimp. PJ. Abyss. 
