Linociera.] lxxxii. oleace^ (baker). 21 



half as long as the leaves ; bracts oblong, deciduous. Calyx-tube cam- 

 panulate ; teeth 4, obtuse, ^ the length of the tube. Corolla-tube half 

 as long as the orbicular lobes. — Mayepea Welwitschii, Knobl. in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xvii. 530; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. (558. 



]Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; in dense forests by the catar.icts of 

 the River Cuango, near Sange, Welwitsch, 945 ! 946. 



Order LXXXIII. SALVADORACEiE. (By J. G. Baker.) 



Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or polygamo-dioecious. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, :3-5-lobed. Corolla-segments 4-5, imbricate, free or united. 

 Stamens usually 4, hypogynous or inserted on the corolla-tube ; fila- 

 ments short, free or monadelphous, sometimes alternating with small 

 scales; anthers short, dorsitixed. 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 Wiirnier regions of Afnca and Asia. 



Petals free. 



Branches unarnjed. Stamens monadelphous . . 1. Uobera. 



Branchf's spinose. Stan)ens free . . . .2. Azima. 



Petals uniteii into a short tube . . . . .3. Salyadora. 



1. DOBERA, Juss.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. 6H0. 



Calyx campanulate, irregularly f>-5-lobed. Petals 4-5, free, oblong, 

 spreading. Stamens 4-5, hypogynous ; filaments dilated and united at 

 the base, with small glands alternating with them ; anthers oblong. 

 Ovary 1-celled; style short; stigma capitate; ovules 1-2, basal, erect. 

 Drupe ellipsoid. Seed erect; testa cartilaginous. — Unarmed trees, with 

 broad coriaceous opposite leaves. Flowers small, polygamous, in axillary 

 panicles. 



Species 2, 1 extending to India. 



Ovule 1 1. D. Roxhurghii. 



Ovules 2 . . 2. Z>. loranthifolia. 



1. D. Roxburghii, Planch, in Ann. Sc. ^^at. ser. 3, x. 11)1. A 

 large tree, with branchlets finely pubescent upwards. Leaves cori- 

 aceous, very variable in shape, 2-o in. long, ovate or obovate, acute or 

 obtuse, deltoid at the base, glabrous above when mature, thinly clothed 

 with obscure whitish pubescence beneath; petiole very short. Panicles 

 all axillary, erecto-patent, shorter than the leaves; rhachis white- 

 tomentose ; pedicels 0. Calyx pale green, yV^i ^^- ^^^S- Petals twico 

 as long as the calyx, spreading. Filaments united more than halfway 

 up. Drupe ellipsoid, J-| in. long, obtuse or pointed. — D. glabra, 



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