404 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Salvadora, 
panicle of recurved secund spikes. — Bractes subulate, one-flowered, 
— Flowers rather small, bairy.—Ca/yx four-toothed.—Corol with _ 
a slender, cylindric, villous tube, and contracted, four-parted border, 
Filaments none. — Anthers linear in the mouth of the tube of the . 
corol, and affixed to it by their backs.— Germ beneath. Style shorter 
than the corol. Stigma simple.— Drupe round, six-ribbed; size of 
a pea.— Seeds or nuts regularly six, sub-cylindric. d 
SALVADORA. Schreb. Gen. N. 220. 
Calyx four-toothed. Corol one-petalled, four-cleft. Style none 
or short. Berry. inferior, one.seeded, : 
1. S. persica. Linn. Sp. Pl ed. Willd. i i. 695. R. Corom. Pl. i. N. 20. 
Rivina paniculata. Syst. nat. x. p. 899. i 
Teling. Pedda-warago-wenki, 
À middle sized tree, a native of most parts of the Circars though 
by no means common ; it seems to grow equally well in vrina soil. 
Produces flowers and ripe fruit all the year round. 
Trunk generally crooked, from eight to ten feet high, to the ` 
branches, and one in diameter. Bark very scabrous, and deeply 
cracked. Branches exceedingly numerous, spreading, with their 
extremities perfectly pendulous, like the weeping Willow. — Leaves 
opposite, petioled, oval or oblong, entire, very smooth, and shining 
‘on both sides, without veins; from one to two inches long, and 
about one broad.—Stipules none.— Panicles terminal, and from the. 
exterior axills.— Flowers minute, very numerous, greenish-yellow. 
— Bractes minute. — Calyx inferior, four-toothed, permanent. .— Cos 
rol one-petalled. Tube short, border four-cleft; segments oblong, 
revolute.— Filaments four, inserted into the tube of the corol under 
its fissures, and rather shorter than the border. Anthers oval— 
Germ globular, sty le none. Stigma scabrous — Berry very minute, 
much smaller than a grain of black pepper, smooth, pu, juicy.— 
Seed one. 
Obs. The berries have a strong aromatic smell, d taste much » 
üke garden cresses. The bark of the root is remarkably acrid, 
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