Lignstrum.'] oi.i 



1. L, compaction, Hook, f, and Tli. ; Braudis 310. 



A large shrub. Bark grey, -fa inch thick. Wood white, moderately 

 hard. Annual rings marked by a narrow porous belt. Pores small in 

 the spring wood, extremely small in the autumn wood. Medullary rays 

 fine and very fine, numerous. 



North- West Himalaya from the Beas to the Sarda, at 3,500 to 6,000 feet. 

 Growth slow, 17 rings per inch of radius. Weight, 64 Ibs. per cubic foul. 



Ibs. 



H 3059. Koti, Simla, 6,000 feet .... ... 64 



8. LINOCIERA, Swartz. 



Contains about 6 species. L. intermedia, Wight. (Chionanthus intermedia, 

 Beddome t. 239) and L. malabarica, Wall. (C. malabarica, Beddome cliv.) are large 

 trees of the Western Ghats, while Kurz under Chionanthus describes 4 species from 

 Burma and the Andamans. 



No. 3211 is L. macrophylla (Chionanthus macropkyllics, Kurz ii. 159) from a 

 cultivated tree in the Saharaupur Gardens ; it has a brown bark, ^ inch thick ; pinkish 

 white wood ; pores small, arranged in radial lines or groups ; and medullary rays fine, 

 bent where they touch the pores. 



ORDER LXV1II. SALVADORACE^E. 



Contains 2 genera, Salvadora and Azima. Azimatetracantha, Lamk. ; Kurz 

 ii. 161, is a straggling, dioecious, thorny shrub of South India and Burma. It is very 

 common, and the leaves and bark are used in native medicine as an expectorant. 

 (Wight 111. t. 152, p. 156.) 



1. SALVADORA, Linn. 



1. S. persica, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 389 ; Brandis 315. 8. Wighti- 

 ana, Beddome t. 247. The Tooth-brush Tree. Veru. Ardk, Irak, Arab. ; 

 Kablar, kharidjar, pilu, Sind ; Jhdl, Rajputana; Kauri van, kauri-jal, 

 jhdr, jhit, Pb. ; Opa, ughai, Tarn. ; Waragu-wenki, ghunia, Tel. ; Pilu, 

 'Mar. 



A small evergreen tree, with thin grey bark. Wood white, soft. 

 Pores small, in short radial lines, but enclosed in oval patches of soft tissue. 

 Numerous fine concentric bands of soft tissue, separating broader bauds 

 of firm texture, in which the fine and numerous medullary rays are dis- 

 tinctly visible. 



Wild in Sind, Rajputana, Guzerat, Konkan and the Circars. 



The tree is generally small, but in favourable circumstances attains 30 to 40 

 feet, with a short trunk, often crooked and fluted, 8-10 feet long and 4-5 feet in girth. 

 Specimens have been seen as much as 14 feet 9 inches in girth. Weight, 40'5 Ibs. 

 (Dalzell) ; 46 Ibs. (Fenner) ; our specimen gives 38 Ibs. It is very little used and 

 is not even a good fuel. The twigs are used as tooth-cleaners ; the root bark is very 

 acrid and acts on the skin like a blister ; the shoots and leaves are pungent, but 

 are considered as an antidote to poison, they are eaten as salad and given as fodder 

 to camels ; the fruit also is pungent, bitter and aromatic, and is used medicinally. 



bs. 

 P 1381. Sind .38 



