1 20 Salvador acece. \Salvadora. 



LXXXIIL— SALVADORACE.^. 



Trees or shrubs, 1. opp., entire, simple, without stip. ; fl. 



small, regular (or nearly so), bisexual or unisexual and 



dioecious; cal. free, segm. 4, equal or unequal, cor. 4-lobed 



or divided into 4 distinct pet., imbricate; stam. 4, inserted on 



cor.-tube or hypogynous, ov. superior, i- or 2-celled, with i 



or 2 erect ovules in each cell; fruit a drupe, with a crusta- 



ceous or membranous endocarp, seed solitary (or 2), without 



endosperm. 



A very small Tropical Family. 



Cor. gamopetalous ; ov. i-celled . . .1. Salvadora. 

 Cor. of four distinct pet.; ov. 2-celled . . 2. AziMA. 



Both are dry-country plants. 



I. SAIiVADORA,^ Z. 



A small tree, 1. opp., entire, without stip.; fl. small, 

 bisexual, in axillary and terminal racemes or panicles; cal. 

 campanulate, segm. 4; cor. deeply cut, lobes 4, imbricate in 

 bud; stam. 4, inserted in cor.-tube; ov. superior, i -celled, 

 with I erect basal ovule, style o; fruit a drupe, endocarp 

 crustaceous; seed solitary, globose, without endosperm. — Sp. 

 2 ; I \r\ Fl. B. Ind. 



S. persica, L. Sp. PI. 122 (1753). TJvay, Viyay, T. 



S. Wiiihtiana, Planch, in Thw. Enum. 190. C. P. 2267. 

 Fl. B.'lnd. ill. 619. Wight, 111. t. 181 {S. indicd). Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 

 247 (5. WigJitiand). 



A small, much-branched, erect tree, with long drooping 

 slender branchlets, bark rough and furrowed, young parts 

 quite glabrous; 1. numerous, \\-2 in., oblong-oval or ovate, 

 tapering or rounded at base, obtuse or rounded, usually mu- 

 cronate at apex, entire, glabrous and shining on both sides, 

 thick, glaucous green, lat. veins oblique, obscure, petiole 

 \-^ in. ; fl. small, very numerous, on slender, opp., spreading 

 ped., laxly arranged on branches of spreading, divaricate, 

 glabrous racemes or panicles about as long as 1. (or longer 

 when in fruit), terminal and from axils of upper 1., cal. small, 

 glabrous, segm. broad, truncate ; cor. persistent, lobes oval, 



* Commemorates J. Sahador, a Spanish botanist. 



