28 SALVADORACEM. [Salvadoba. 



LXX.— SALVADORACE^. 



Shrubs or trees, usually glabrous, armed or not. Leaves opposite, 

 entire ; stipules minute or 0. Flowers small, clustered or panicled, 

 hermaphrodite or dicenou*. Calyx free, campanulate or ovoid, 

 3-4-toothed or 4-fid. Corolla shortly campanulate or the petals free, 

 4-merous, imbricate in bud. Stamens 4, inserted od the corolla-tube, 

 or hypogynous, alternate with the lobes or petals ; filaments free or 

 connate at the base. Ovary superior, 1-2-celled, style short, stigma 

 2- fid. or subentire ; ovules 1-2 in each cell, erect from its base. Berry 

 or drupe usually 1-seeded. Seed erect, globose or compressed, 

 exalbu-ninous. — Species 8 or 9, in tropical ani subtropical Asia and 

 Africa, also in Madagascar and Malaya. 



SALVADORA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 619. 



Unarmed shrubs or trees. Leaves usually pale green. Flowers 

 sessile or pedicelled, on the branches of axillary or terminal panicles, 

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

 obtuse. Stamens 4, attached to the base or middle of the corolla 

 filaments somewhat flattened. Disk of 4 scales or glands alternating 

 with the filaments or 0. Ovary 1-celled, style very short or 0, 

 stigma broad ; ovule solitary, erect. Drupe globose, supported by 

 the enlarged cilyx and subpersisfcent corolia, endocarp crustajeous. 

 Seed globose. — Species 2, in E. Africa, Arabia and India. 



Flowers pedicelled 1. S. persica. 



Flowers sessile . . . . . 2. 8. oleoides. 



1. S. persica, Linn. Sp. PL 122 ; Eoyle III. 319 ; Brand. For. Fl. 315 ; 

 F. B. I. Hi, 619; Watt E. D.; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 476 ; Prain Beng. 

 PI. 663 ; Gooke FL Bomb, ii, 121. -Vern. Kharjdl. 



An evergreen shrub or small tree, with usually a short and crooked 

 trunk. Branches many, drooping, terete, glabrous, whitish-yellow. 

 Leaves fleshy, glaucous ; blade 1-2 in. long and up to 1£ in. wide, elliptic- 

 lanceolate or ovate, obtuse or often mucronate at the apex, base cuneate 

 or rounded ; petiole -§-f in. long. Flowers greenish -yellow, ia lax 

 compound panicles : pedicels T Vs in. long ; bracts ovate, a little shorter 

 than the pedicels, deciduous. Calyx ^ in. long, glabrous, lobes 

 rounded. Corolla twice as loag as the calyx, thin, persistent ; lobes 

 oblong, reflexed. Stamens exserted. Drupz globose, i in. in diam. 

 smooth, led when ripe. 



In the drier western and southern outskirts of the area in the neighbour- 

 hood of Delhi, Agra, Muttra and Ajmer, and on the banks of the 



