Salvadora. | SALVADORACEX (Wright). 489 
I, SALVADORA, Garcin. 
Calyz campanulate, 4-fid. Corolla campanulate; tube short; 
lobes wide, obtuse, imbricate. Stamens 4, fixed to the base or 
middle of the corolla-tube; filaments slightly flattened; anthers 
ovoid, Disc of 4 glands or scales alternate with the filaments or 
none. Ovary l-celled ; style very short ; stigma wide, truncate or 
nearly peltate; ovule solitary, erect. Drupe globose; endocarp 
chartaceous. Seed erect, globose; testa thin. 
Shrubs or trees; leaves opposite, quite entire, rather thick, usually pallid; 
flowers small, on the branchlets of axillary panicles, sessile or pedicellate. 
1. 8. persica (Garcin ex Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 122); a large, much- 
branched shrub or small tree ; branehlets drooping, glabrous, whitish ; 
leaves from ovate to oblong, coriaceous, 14-3 in. long, 31+ in. wide, 
obtuse, often mucronate, pale green ; petiole 3—1 in. long; flowers 
in terminal and axillary panicles, greenish-yellow ; calyx cleft half- 
way down; lobes rounded; corolla 3 in. long, deeply cleft ; lobes 
oblong, obtuse, reflexed; stamens shorter than the corolla; drupe 
x In. in diam., globose, smooth, red. DC. Prodr. xvii. 28 ; Schweinf. 
Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 163; Oliv. in Trans. Linn, Soe. xxix. 106; 
C. B. Cl. in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 619 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. 
Pl. Welw. i. 659; Baker in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 23. S. eras- 
stnervia, Hochst. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. Eausicc. 2218 ; T. Anders. in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. i. 30. S. paniculata, Hochst. in 
Schimp. l.c. 2325. 
EASTERN ReGion: Delagoa Bay; near Shepherd’s, about 18 miles from 
Lorenzo Marques, Bolus, 9701! 
Also in Tropical and North Africa, Arabia and India. 
II. AZIMA, Lam. 
Flowers dicecious. Calyx campanulate, shortly 4-fid or in the 
female flower irregularly 2—4-partite. Petals 4, distinct. Stamens 
4, alternate with the petals; filaments slender; anthers ovoid. 
Disk none. Ovary 2-eelled ; style very short; stigma large, 2-fid ; 
ovules 2 in each cell, ereet. Berry globose, usually, by abortion, 
l-seeded; endocarp thinly membranous. Seed somewhat com- 
pressed; testa coriaceous. 
Glabrous shrubs, very much branched or sarmentose ; spines axillary, solitary 
or in pairs; leaves opposite, quite entire; flowers small, axillary or along the 
branchlets of a short panicle, 
1. A. tetracantha (Lam. Encycel. i. 343 and Ill. t. 807); a low 
much-branched spiny shrub ; branchlets tetragonal, pubeseent when 
young ; spines 2-4 from a node, straight, very sharp, 1 in. or more 
long ; leaves oblong or elliptic, acute, mucronate, pale green, acute at 
the base, 1-14 in. long, 1-3 in. wide; petiole very short; flowers 
