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ghi alia videtur quam ilia Forstali ex descnptione.^ Royle afterwards took the same view 

 and called tlie one S. Persica^ the other *S', Indira^ but without trivin;; distinctive characters. 



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He however, as I understand him, calls, perhaps by mistake, the Indian plant fi-jurcd by Rox- 

 burgh, *S'. Persica^ and the Forskaliau one S, Indica. As I happen, througli the kindness of 

 Mr. Stocks (who sent me specimens of the Western plant from Scinde), to have both species 

 before me, I am enabled to clear up the doubts and uncertainties which have so long hung over 

 them. The typical forms of the two plants may be distinguished at a glance, the Western or 

 Persian one having long narrow elliptico-lanceolate leaves, and compact spicato-panicled inflores- 

 cence, or, in other words, a sessile flowered panicle; while the Eastern or Indian one, bus broad 

 ovato-oval obtuse leaves, and large diffuse racemoso-panicled inflorescence, that i?, pedieelled 

 flowers on the floriferous ramuli. The berries, moreover, of the Persian plant are described as 

 yellow or black, those of the Indian one are red. I now have specimens of the Indian form, from 

 both Cambay and the Circars, and thence extending South to within a few miles of Cape Comorin 

 (how far North it goes I am unable to say), and every where corresponding with Roxburgh'*s 

 figure and description. To this species, therefore, I restrict the specific name Indian^ to the 

 other, or long narrow leaved and sessile flowered form, I assign the specific name of Persica. 



I3ut I have a third nearly intermediate form, also from Scinde, which, being only in fruit, 

 I am as yet uncertain how to dispose of It has the broad short blunt leaves of the Indian 

 plant, but the panicles are much more compact, and the pedicels scarcely half the length. It 

 seems a distinct species. The above species may be thus defined : 



Salvadora Persica (Linn. Cisstis arborea, Forslc), leaves oblong, narrow elliptico-lanceo- 

 late, succulent, glabrous: panicles terminal, compact: flowers sessile, bracteate: bracts caducous : 

 corolla persistent : fruit Scinde, Arabia, Persia, Egypt. 



Salvadora Ixdica (Royle? R. W., Salvadora Persica, Roxb.), arboreous, leaves broad 

 ovate-oval, obtuse, glabrous; panicles terminal and axillary, diffuse; flowers longish pedicelled : 

 bracts sub-persistent : berry about twice the length of the calyx, red, embraced by the raarcessant 



corolla. 



India, everywhere in low lying damp ground, usually near cultivation. 



Salvadora Stocksu (R. W.), leaves ovato-oval, mucronate: panicles compact, terminal: 

 flowers short pedicelled: corolla deciduous: fruit three or four times the length of the 



persistent calyx. * , i i i -j 



Scinde, Stocks. I consider this a perfectly distinct species, as shown by the^ deciduous 

 corolla, large size of the fruit, and compact form of the panicles. In these definitions 1 have 

 limited myself to the characters simply required to distinguish one species from the other. Ot 

 the two last I shall give figures in the Icones. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 181. 



ral size. 



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7. Calyx cut vertically, showing the solitary ovule 



8. A ripe berry 



2/Portion of a raceme with 2 flowers. 9- 10. The same cut vertically and across, showing 



3. A detached flower. tlie seed aborted. 



4. Corolla solit ooen showin"- the attachment of the 11. The aborted seed. , . • *u a 

 stamens and a raUglaAfnkese^^^ stamens ?) 12. A fertile fruit cut transversely, showing the .eed 



filling the whole cavity 



between each pair. .^- ^ . .• n 



5. Anthers back and front view. 13. Cut vertically. 



6. Calyx and ovary, the latter some days after fertili- 14. A single seed, lobe and radicle, 

 zalion. 



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