40^ TETRANDRiA MONOGTNiA. Sulvadora. 



panicle of recurved secund spikes. — Bractes subulate, one-flowered. 

 — Flowers rather small, hairy. — Cali/x 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. St^le shorter 

 than the corol. Stigma simple. — Drupe round, six-ribbed; size of 

 a pea. — Seeds or nuts regularly six, sub-cylindric. 



SALVADORA. Schreb. Gen. N. 220. 

 Ca/^x four- toothed. Coro/ one-petalled, four-cleft. Stj/le none 

 or short. Berry inferior, one-seeded. 



1. S. persica. Linn. Sp. ?L ed. Willd. i. 695. R. Corom. PI. i. N. 26, 



Rivina panicidata. Syst. nat. x. p. 899* 



Teling. Pedda-warago-wenki. 



A middle sized tree, a native of most parts of the Circars though 

 hy no means common; it seems to grow equally well in every soil, 

 produces flowers and ripe fruit all the year round. 



Trunk generally crooked, from eight to ten feet high^ to the 

 tranches, 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 Loth 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. — Ca/yx inferior, four- toothed, permanent. — Co- 

 rol one-petalled. Tube short, border four-clett; 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, style none. Stigma scabrous. — Berry very minute, 

 much smaller than a grain of black pepper, smooth, red, juicy. — 

 teed one. 



Obs. The berries have a strong aromatic smell, and taste much 

 like garden cresses. The bark of the root is remarkably acrid^ 



