122 LXXXI. SALVADORACE.E. 



calyx, deeply cleft ; lobes obovate-oblong, obtuse. Drupes -|— i in. in 

 diam., eubsessile, globose, yellow when ripe (Brandis). ¥1. B. I. v. 3, 

 p. 620 ; Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 91 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 220 ; 

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

 Prod. V. 6, part 2, p. 447. Salvadora Stoclcsii, Wight, 111. v. 2, p. 229, 

 and Icon. t. 1621. — Plowers : Jan.-Mar. Verj^. Khahbar ; Didr. 



lu the Bombay Presidency apparently confined to Gujarat and Sind. Gujarat : 

 Nadiad, Woodrow ; Junajj;liad, Coo/iel Sind: Dalzelll, Woodrowl, Stocks, 633!; 

 Khairpur, common, Brandis. — Distrib. India (Punjab, Rajputana) ; Aden. 



The fruit is sweet and is largely eaten by the natives, forming when dried an 

 article of trade and tasting somewhat like currants (Brandis). The leaves are the 

 favorite diet of camels during the first quarter of the hot weather, but other animals 

 will not eat them. See \^'att, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



2. AZIMA, Lamk. 



Glabrous, much-branched or saruientose shrubs armed with axillary 

 spines. Leaves opposite, entire. Plowers dioecious, small, crowded in 

 the axils or sessile along the branches of a small slightly branched 

 panicle. Calyx campanulate, 4-fid, or, in the female flowers, irregularly 

 2-4-partite. Petals 4, free, narrow, imbricate in bud. Stamens 4, 

 alternate with the petals ; filaments slender ; anthers ovate. Scales or 

 glands 0. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 1 or 2 in each cell, erect from the 

 base ; stigma subsessile, large. Berry globose. Seeds 1-2, globose ; 

 albumen 0. — Distrib. Tropical Asia, tropical and south Africa and 

 Madagascar ; species 3 or 4. 



1 . Azima tetracantha, Lamh. Encrjc. Method, v. 1 (1783) p. 343. 

 A low spinous rigid bush, woody below only ; branches numerous, green, 

 herbaceous, bluntly quadrangular, the younger pubescent. Leaves 1-1 1 

 by |— I in., elliptic, acute, sharply mucronale, rigid, pale, glabrous, 

 shining, base acute; petioles g in. long. Spines often \\ in. long, 

 obtusely quadrangular, grooved, very sharp, with an indurated point, 

 slightly pubescent when young, at length glabrous, usually 4, sometimes 

 reduced to 1 and occasionally as many as 7 at a node. Flowers small, 

 greenish-white or yol]o\\ish, sessile, in axillary fascicles, the supporting 

 leaves of the upper fascicles reduced to bracts or becoming obsolete, so 

 that the flowering branches end in naked interru])ted spikes ; bracts 

 foliaceous, pubescent, ovate, acute, spinous-pointed. Male flowers 

 numerous, cro\\'ded in axillary fascicles. Calyx jnibescent, -,\j— ^ in. 

 long ; lobes 4, ovate, acute, -^-^ in. long. Petals a little exserted beyond 

 the calyx-lobes, linear-lanceolate, acute, ciliolate. Pemale floweks 

 solitary or in pairs. Calyx pubescent, ^ in. long ; lobes usually 2, 

 broadly ovate, apiculate, § in. long. Petals as in the male. Ovary 

 2-celled, glabrous ; ovules solitary (rarely 2) in each cell ; stigma nearly 

 sessile, j'^ in. in diam., 2-lobed. Berry | in. in diam., globose, glabrous, 

 white, edible, usuallv 1-seeded. PI. B. I. v. 3, p. 620 ; Dalz. & Gibs, 

 p. 143 ; Wight, 111." v. 2, t. 152 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 121 ; Talb. 

 Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 221 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) 

 p. 165 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 361. Monetia tetracantha, 

 Sahsb. Prod. (1796) p. 65; Grab. Cat. p. 117.— Flowers : Dec-Mar. 

 Vern. Sal-apat. 



KoNKAN : lliih3]\i's icrrltory, DdlzeH >!(■ Gibson. Df.ccas : GoVitk, Woodrow. S. M. 

 CocNTKv : Badami, Kanithur\, Woodrow; Dharwnr, 7i'(Vc/i;>, 1868 !, Graham, DaUcU 



