Olea | LXXX. OLEACEZ. 659 
LoanpA.—A small tree, 8 to 10 ft. high. In sandy maritime places 
in the island of Cazanga near Loanda, introduced from Portugal and 
several trees cultivated ; without either fl. or fr. May 1854. No. 940. 
It was reported to Welwitsch that this tree flowered abundantly in 
Benguella gardens, but that it never or only once had borne fruit 
there ; in Apontam. p. 549, under n. 89, he recommended its culti- 
vation in the district of Pungo Andongo, 
LXXXI. SALVADORACEZ. 
i. SALVADORA Garcin, L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii, p. 681. 
1. S. persica L. Sp. Pl. edit. 1, p. 122 (1753). 
Var. densiflora (Welw. ms. in Herb.). 
A perennial shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high, of a sad pallid almost 
Chenopodiaceous aspect, much and densely branched ; sap watery ; 
stem scarcely jointed; branchlets virgate, divergent-nodding, 
green compressed-angular and pubescent towards the extremities ; 
leaves opposite, oval, rounded or obtuse at the apex, obtuse or 
obliquely narrowed towards the base, coriaceous, glabrous or 
nearly so, evergreen, pallid-glaucous, entire and in the dry state 
rather undulate on the margin, | to 2 in. long by 3 to 1 in. broad; 
petiole 1 to 1 in. long; flowers hermaphrodite, greenish, tetra- 
merous, 54; in. in diameter, on very short puberulous pedicels, 
densely paniculate; calyx deeply quadridentate, rather fleshy ; 
corolla quadrifid, longer than the calyx; the lobes somewhat 
imbricate in estivation, revolute at the time of full flowering, 
thinly membranous, whitish-greenish; stamens 4, alternating 
with the corolla-lobes, filaments flattened, ascending; anthers 
globose, didymous, introrse, 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscing, 
yellow; ovary comparatively large, spherical, green, sessile at 
the bottom of the calyx-tube, covering the insertion of the corolla- 
lobes and stamens, 1-celled, 1-ovulate ; disk obsolete ; berry soft, 
rosy, as large as a peppercorn, hyaline-pulpy inside, 1-seeded. 
LOANDA, ETC.—In sandy maritime rocky places, very plentiful along 
the coast from Ambriz to the mouth of the Cuanza ; near Loanda, fl. 
and fr. Nov. 1853 and Oct. 1857. No. 944. 
2. AZIMA Lam. (1783); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 681. 
Monetia L’ Heérit. Stirpes Nove, p. 1, t. 1 (1784). 
1. A. tetracantha Lam. Encycl. Méth. i. p. 343 (1783). 
Monetia barlerioides L’ Hérit., Jc. 
Loanpa.— An erect, much-branched shrub, 3 or rarely 4 ft. high, 
bristling with very acute axillary spines ; leaves coriaceous, glossy, 
evergreen ; flowers greenish-yellowish ; fruit white. Im sandy and 
rocky bushy maritime hilly places along the whole coast of the 
district, plentiful ; fl.in April, fr. from March to August ; near Maianga 
dE! Rei, fl. beginning of April 1854. Nos. 942, 4649, 5403. A coast 
shrub ; leaves fleshy, brittle; spines cruciate ; flowers Rhamnoid, 
green ; berries crowded, black, juicy ; Praia de Penedo ; fr. Jan. 1854. 
CoLu. Carp. 336. 
IcoLo £ Benco.—In rather dry thinly bushy places near Dafunda, 
rata ; fl. Sept. 1857. A broad-leaved form of this species. 
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