Order 7 3 . Oleacece. 1 7 7 



the branches, drupe small, oblong, dark plum colour with white 

 bloom. Lokhandi, marsingha. 



All along the Ghauts. The Nilgherry privet of Mahableshwar 

 (Dr. T. CooJce). 

 L. vulgare is the English privet. (See Lawsonia.) 



ORDER 74. SALVADOR ACE JE. 



Trees and shrubs differing only from tribe Oleinese of the last 

 order in having 4 stamens. 



SALVADORA. Calyx and corolla bell-shaped, 4-lobcd, style 

 none, stigma truncate, drupe round. 



S. persica. Branches very straggling, leaves oval, variable, 

 fleshy, scarcely veined, flowers in large cross panicles, very 

 small, greenish, corolla and calyx scarcely separable, fruit like 

 a minute red currant. Miraj, mirjoli, Kabar, pilu. 



The Konkans and Guzerat ; said to be a salt marsh tree in N. 

 Konkan. All over India, often planted, and wild in Syria, Arabia, 

 Egypt, &o. (fl.). It is said by most authorities to be the mustard tree 

 of Scripture (and is eo marked in the museum at Kew), the berries 

 being aromatic and eatable. 



. . . " the mustard tree, 

 That hath its seed so little, and its boughs 

 Widespreading." Sir E. Arnold. 



Azima, thorny shrubs, flowers unisexual, petals 4, free, stamens 

 hypogynons, stigma large, bifid. * A. tetracantha, branches 4-sided, 

 leaves elliptic, sometimes spiny, flowers axillary, yellow, berries 

 round, white. Dharwar and the Habshi's country (D.). It some- 

 what resembles the common furze ((?.) 



ORDER 75. APOGYNACEJE. Dogbanes. 



Shrubs often twining, occasionally trees or herbs, usually 

 abounding in milky juice, leaves generally opposite, entire and 

 without stipules, flowers regular, calyx inferior, 5-lobed, per- 

 sistent, corolla tube generally short, lobes 5, twisted in bud, 

 stamens 5, anthers long, stigma bifid, fruit generally of 2 narrow 

 follicles, seeds often tufted with long hairs. 



This is a large and distinct order, chiefly tropical. Many of the 

 plants are poisonous, and many of considerable beauty. The flowers 

 of some, and the fruit of most, resemble those of Asclepiadese, but the 

 remarkable arrangement of the stamens so conspicuous in that order 

 does not occur in this. 



The great majority of the plants here given have white or pale 

 yellow flowers. 



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