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1. SALVADOR A, Liuu. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, entire, usually pale. Flowers 

 small, sessile or pedicellate, along the branches of axillary or terminal 

 panicles. Calyx campanulate, 4-fid. Corolla campanulate ; tube short ; 

 lobes 4, obtuse, imbricate in bud. Stamens 4, inserted at the base or in 

 the middle of the corolla-tube ; filaments slightly flattened. Disk of 

 4 scales or glands between the bases of the filaments or 0. Ovary 

 1-celled ; ovule solitary; style very short or almost 0; stigma broad, 

 truncate or subpeltate. Drupe globose, supported by the persistent 

 calyx and corolla ; endocarp crustaceous. Seed erect, globose. — Distrib. 

 East Africa, Arabia, and India ; species 2. 



Leaves f in. and more broad ; flowers pedieelled 1. S. persica. 



Leaves less than I in. broad ; flowers sessile 2. S. oleoides. 



1. Salvadora persica, Linn. Sp. PL (1753) p. 122. A large 

 much-branched evergreen shrub or small tree with soft whitish-yellow 

 wood ; bark of old stems rugose ; branches numerous, drooping, 

 glabrous, terete, finely striate, shining, almost white. Leaves somewhat 

 fleshy, glaucous, 1|-2| by f-l^ in., elliptic-lanceolate or ovate, obtuse and 

 often mucronate at the apex ; base usually acute, less commonly rounded ; 

 main nerves 5-6 pairs ; petioles ^-g ^^- long, glabrous. Plowers 

 greenish-yellow, in axillary and terminal compound lax panicles 2-5 in. 

 long, numerous in the upper axils; pedicels -j^-g in. long; bracts 

 beneath the pedicels ovate, very caducous. Calyx ^ in. long, glabrous, 

 cleft ^-way down ; lobes rounded. Corolla very thin, g in. long, 

 deeply cleft, persistent ; lobes ^\ in. long, oblong, obtuse, mucli 

 reflexed. Stamens shorter than the corolla, but exserted, owing to the 

 corolla-lobes being reflexed. Drupe g in. in diam., globose, smooth, 

 red when ripe. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 619 ; Grab. Cat. p. 25U ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 312 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 120 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 220 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 164; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. V. 6, part 2, p. 448. Salvadora Wijhtiana, Planch, in Tlnv. 

 Enum. p. 190 ; Bedd. Elor. Sylvat. t. 247. — Elowers -. Xov.-Eeb. 

 A^EEN. Pilu ; Pilvd ; Khdlan. 



KoNKAN : near tbe sea in both Konkans, Graham ; along tidal creeks in Thana 

 district, Bi/an ; Habsbi's country, Dalzell 4' Gibson. Deccan : Bijapur, Woodrow. 

 S. M. Country : Dharwar and Belgaum districts, Talbot. Kanara : Talbot. Gujarat : 

 Balsar, BMva\; Aiikleshvar, Kanifkarl; Gogo, Woodrow. Sind : Eifchie, 1308.', 

 Stocks I, Cooke !, Dahell, 325 ! — Distrib. Drier parts of India, often planted near 

 Mahoraedan tombs ; Ceylon, dry regions of W. Asia, Egypt, Abyssinia. 



The tree is supposed to be the Mustard Tree of Scripture. The small drupes and 

 the leaves have the peculiar pungent flavor of many of the Crucifcrcs. The latter are 

 a favorite fodder of camels and are eaten as a salad. The root-bark is very acrid and 

 used as a vesicant. The fruit is used in medicine. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



2. Salvadora oleoides, Decaisne, in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. (1844) 

 p. 140, t. 144. A shrub or occasionally a small tree with a short 

 twisted or bent trunk; branches numerous, stiff, divergent, whitish. 

 Leaves 1^-3 by g-^ in., whitish-green, coriaceous and somewhat fleshy 

 wlien mature, linear-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, 

 often mucronate, glabrous ; main nerves indistinct ; petioles ^-^ in. 

 long. Elowers greenish-white, sessile, in erect axillary panicled spikes 

 1-1^ in. long, often clustered. Calyx yV~tV ^^^- ^^^^S' ^^^^^ about 

 i-way down ; lobes 4, rounded, obtuse. Corolla a little longer than the 



