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Dobera. | XCIII. SALVADORACEÆ®. (C. B. Clarke.) i 619 
Hk), 4-5-celled (Hochst.), 2-celled (Forsk.) ; style short, stigma obtuse un- 
divided (Bth. $ Hk.), 2-fid (Forsk.) ; ovule solitary, erect (Bth. § Hk.). Fruit 
subglobose. Seed erect, globose, exalbuminous. 
The true place of this disputed genus cannot be settled until material is received 
which shall decide the structure of the young ovary. The younger flowers at Kew 
appear all male (or functionally male); in these the imperfect style is obscurely 
2-lobed, and the ovary seems 2-celled as Forsk. states. From H ochstetter's descrip- 
tion it seems probable that he had very young fruit containing one 1-seeded cell and 
traces of other abortive cells. As he tried to make the order of the tree Meliacee, he 
may have over-counted the abortive cell. 
D. Roxburghii, Planch. in Ann. Se. Nat. 9, x. 191. D. coriacea and 
glabra, A. DC. Prodr. xvii. 31. Tomex glabra, Forsk. Fl. Ægypt-Arab. 32, 
Schizocalyx coriaceus, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, Beil. 2. Blackburnia oppositi- 
folia (error for B. monadelpha), Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey § Wall. i. 435, fide 
Planch. Le, 
Bompay ; Capt. Geburne.—Distrm. Arabia, Abyssinia. 
A fine tree (Hochst.). Leaves 3} by 13 in., elliptic, acute, mucronate or obovate- 
obtuse (on the same branch in the Indian specimen), coriaceous; petiole 4-3 in. 
Panicles 14-3 in.; bracts 0; bracteoles ah in., ovate, close to the calyx. Calyx țin., 
ovate-cylindric, subspathaceous; teeth usually 5, one much broader. Petals Z in, 
white, freo, 4 in the Indian plant, but placed slightly unsymmetrically, sometimes 5 
in the African (Hochst.), Stamens 4 in the Indian specimen (sometimes 5 in the 
African), filaments united for two-thirds their length into a subquadrangular tube. 
Berry $ in. diam.; endocarp crustaceous.—There is no Blackburnia oppositifolia, 
Roxb. Planchon no doubt meant B. monadelpha, Roxb., with which the description 
fairly agrees. 
2. SALVADORA, Linn. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, entire. Flowers small, hermaphrodite or 
(mostly) functionally unisexual, racemose or spicate on the branches of terminal 
or axillary panicles; bracts minute. Calyx campanulate ; lobes 4, imbricate. 
Corolla campanulate; tube with 4 small teeth (sometimes subobsolete) between 
the bases of the filaments; lobes 4, imbricate. Stamens 4, on the corolla, 
alternate with its lobes. Ovary l-celled ; style 0, stigma truncate; ovule 1, 
erect basal. Drupe globose, supported by the slightly enlarged calyx, and sub- 
ersistent corolla; endocarp crustaceous. Seed erect, globose, exalbuminous.— 
IstRIR, Species 2; Eastern Africa, Arabia and India. 
1. S. persica, Linn. ; A. DC. Prodr. xvii. 28; glabrous, leaves ovate or 
oblong obtuse, panicles axillary or terminal compound, flowers pedicelled, drupes 
scattered. Vahl Symb. i. 12, t. 4; Lamk. Ill. t. 81; Roxb. Cor. Pi. 1. 26, t. 26, 
and Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. i. 404; Wall. Cat. 1042 ; Lemaout & Dene. 
Traité Bot. 453, with fig. ; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb, Fl. 312; Baill. in Adans. ix. 
989, t. 10, fig. 4-8; Brand. For. FI. 315 ; Boiss, Fl. Orient. iv. 43. S. Wightiana, 
Planch., Thwaites Enum. 190; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 247. S. indica, Wight Ill. 
ii, 999, t. 181. Cissus arborea, Forsk. Fl. Ægypt-Arab. 32. Embelia Grossu- 
laria, Retz Obs. iv. 24. 
IxpiA, alt. 0-1500 ft., in the drier climates ; from the Punjab and Seinde to Patna; 
and in the Circars and North Ceylon; often planted elsewhere.—DiısrtRIB. Arabia, 
Syria, E. Africa. 
A small, glaucous tree Leaves 12 by 3 in. somewhat fleshy; petiole à in. 
Panicles 2-5 in., often very compound, numerous in the upper axils ; flowers scattered. 
Calyx jin. lobes ovate, Corolla ¥5 in., almost. 5-partite. Filaments short, anthers 
ovate, Drupe ¢ in. diam. 
