Salvadora. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 389° 
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A native of the Island of Honimoa. 
Tender shoots clothed with brown hairs. Leaves Senos, 
approximate, short-petioled, oblong, acute, entire, a little 
hairy; from three to four inches long. Stipules within the 
leaves cuspidate, hairy. . Peduncles opposite ; with the sti- 
pules many times longer than the petioles, each ending in a 
small twice dichotomous, corymbiform, panicle of recurved 
secund spikes, Bractes subulate, one-flowered. Flowers 
rather small, hairy. Calyx 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 aftixed to it by their backs., Germ - 
beneath, ‘Style shorter than the corol, Stigma simple. 
Dripe round, six-ribbed ; size of a pea. Seeds or nuts regu- 
larly six, sub-cylindric. Geet: 
SALVADORA. Schreb. gen. N. 220: 
- Calyx four-toothed, Corol one-petioled, patente. Style 
none or ahioets x meaty cee one-seeded, | 
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os: s. persiea, Ein! sp. pl.ed. Willd. i. 695. R. Coromy 
pli N. 26. 
Rivina paniculata. Syst. nat. x. p, 899. 
Yeling, Pedda-warago-wenki. 
A middle sized tree, a native of most parts of the Concent 
though by no means common ; it seems to grow equally well 
in every soil. Produces Sonvers and ripe fruit all the fone 
round, | 
Trunk generally crooked, PRT UG SMP 
the branches, and one in diameter. Bark very scabrous, and 
deeply cracked. Branches exceedingly numerous, spreading, 
with theie extremities perfectly pendulous, like the weeping 
no, Leaves opposite, petioled, oval or oblong, entire, 
very 4 cat and shining on both sides, without veins ; from 
one to two inches long, and about one broad. Stipules none, 
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