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230 HIPPOCRATEACES (Harv.) [Salacia. 
‘Small trees or shrubs, with opposite (rarely alternate), simple, entire or serrulate, 
coriaceous leaves. Stipules small, soon falling off. Flowers in axillary cymes or 
panicles, inconspicuous. A small Order, containing less than a hundred species, 
inhabiting the warmer zones, but most numerous in South America. Their pro- 
perties are unimportant ; the seeds of some, and the pulpy fruit of others are edible. 
The affinities are with Celastracee on the one part, from which the strictly hypogy- 
nous stamens divide this Order, and with Muphorbiacee on the other, from which 
the bisexual flowers distinguish it. 
I. SALACIA, Linn. 
Calyx deeply 4—5-parted. Petals 4-5, inserted round a crenate pe- 
rigynous disc. Stamens 3, strictly hypogynous ; filaments flattened, 
recurved; anthers short, 2-celled, adnate, opening outward by a longi- 
tudinal slit. Ovary half sunk in the disc, trilocular; style short ; 
stigma 3-lobed ; ovules two or more in each cell. Fruet fleshy, often 
by suppression, one-seeded. Hndl. Gen. 5702. DC. Prod. 1.p. 571: 
Trees or shrubs, with the aspect of Cassine or Célastrus, common within the 
tropics ; a few straggling into the temperate zones. Leaves thick, rigid, entire or 
serrulate, glabrous or nearly so, almost always opposite. Flowers minute, greenish 
or whitish, in axillary cymes or corymbs. Named from Salacia, the wife of 
Neptune. 
1. §. Zeyheri (Planch, ! in Herb. Hook.) ; leaves opposite, shortly 
petiolate, elliptical or obovate, with thickened margins, crenulate or 
repando-dentate ; cymes axillary, few-flowered ; flowers four-parted, 
the ovate-oblong, obtuse petals thrice as long as the roundish sepals. 
Rhamnus Zeyheri, Spreng | in Herb. Zey. 
Has. Eastern Districts, Zeyher! (Herb. Hook.) ; 
A glabrous shrub or small tree. Leaves 1 inch long, } inch wide, obtuse, with 
minute tubercle in each indentation of the margin. owers greenish, 4-parted in 
the specimens examined. Petals persistent. Stamens 3, distant, within the margin 
ss a — fleshy dise ; filaments curved backwards; anthers very short. Ovary 
trilocular. 
2. 8. Kraussii (Hochst. in Flora, xxvii. 1. 306); leaves alternate, sub- 
sessile, elliptical or oblong-lanceolate, glossy above, reticulate below, 
repando-denticulate ; fascicles subumbellate, axillary, several-fiowered ; 
flowers 5-parted, the buds globose; sepals very unequal, much shorter 
than the petals. Walp. Rep. 5. p. 147. 8. alternifolia, Hochst. | in Pl. 
Krauss. No. 348. Sond. in Linn. 23. p. 25. Diplesthes Kraussii, Harv. 
3 — Lond. Journ. 1. p. 19. 
Ste Margins of woods, near Port Natal, Dr. Krauss! Dr. Pappe! Gueinzius ! 
'T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
‘sbrous shrub, ‘Leaves very variable in shape, sometimes beosdity and shortly 
l, 13 inch Jong, sometimes almost lanceolate, 24 inches 
ia denticulate, with very shallow indentations.” Pedicels numerous, 
ae iin? The g * : Fising from axillary tubercles, imperfectiy umbellate ; flower, 
formerly proposed by me for this plant, is untenable. 
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