728 Salvadoraceae. 
86. Salvadoraceae. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or polygamo-dioecious. Calyx 
campanulate, 3—5-lobed. Corolla-segments 4—5, imbricate, free 
or united. Stamens usually 4, hypogynous or inserted on the 
corolla-tube; filaments short, free or monadelphous, sometimes alter- 
nating with small scales; anthers short, dorsifixed. Ovary 1— 2-celled; 
style very short; stigma capitate or emarginate; ovules 1—2 in a 
cell, basal, anatropous. Berry fleshy or subdrupaceous; endocarp 
thin. Seed usually solitary, exalbuminous; cotyledons thick; radicle 
inferior. — Shrubs or trees, sometimes spiny. Leaves opposite, 
entire, coriaceous; rudimentary stipules sometimes present. Flowers 
small, arranged in panicles or axillary fascicles. 
Species 7, confined to the warmer regions of Africa and Asia. 
415. Salvadora Linn. 
Calyx-tube broadly campanulate; segments 4, ovate, obtuse. 
Corolla-tube very short; segments 4, broad, obtuse. Stamens 4, 
inserted in the corolla-tube; filaments free, very short, slightly 
flattened; anthers orbicular; glands sometimes present. Ovary ovoid, 
l-celled; style very short; stigma capitate; ovule 1, basal, erect. 
Drupe globose; endocarp chartaceous. Seed erect, globose; testa 
thin. — Shrubs or small trees, with unarmed branches. Leaves oppo- 
site, entire, coriaceous. Flowers very small, subunisexual, panicled. 
A second species in Arabia and India. 
1033. Salvadora persica Garcin ex Linn. Gen. Plant. ed. IV 
(1752), p. 163. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 43. — Aschers.-Schweinf. 
Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 103 no. 677. — Lam. Illustr. III, tab. 81. — 
Vahl Symb. I, tab. 4. — Deesne. Voy. Jacquem., tab. 144. — DC. 
Prodrom. XVII, p. 28. — Rivina paniculata L. System. X, p. 889..— 
Cissus arborea Forsk. Flor. aeg.-arab., p.32. — Embelia Burmannii 
Retz. Observ. IV, p. 24. — A much-branched shrub or small tree, 
glabrous in all its parts, covering sometimes an area of 27 m; 
branchlets white, terete. Leaves oblong. coriaceous, 5—6 cm long, 
rarely ovate or suborbicular, pale green; petiole 4—8 cm long. 
Panicles copiously produced from the end of the branchlets and 
axils of the upper leaves; pedicels very short; bracts minute. Calyx 
pale green, under 1 mm long. Corolla greenish-white, 2 mm long. 
Stamens shorter than the corolla. Drupe the size of a pea, — 
Flow. March. 
N. v. Near Mitrahine (Muschler). — D. a. sept. D. a. mer. 
Rare in the desert on calcarious ground. 
