22 Lxxxiii. SALVADORACE^ (baker). [Dohera. 



A. DC. and D. coriacea. A. DC. in DC. Prod. xvii. 81. Schizocalyx 

 coriaceus, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, i. 108, partly. 



irile Kand. Er.trea: near Aiuba Forkhiin, Schweinfurth (^ Siva, 620! near 

 GindH, 2900-3400 ft., Schtveinfurth Sf Rica, 2241! Kordofan : Katul Goiubar.i, 

 FfHnd,20Sl Helba, P/knr/, 692 ! near Homra, j;f«riW, 178 ! Abyssinia j Modat 

 Valley, Schimper, 1744! British Enst Africa; Moniijasn, Wakefield ! 



Mozamb. Blst. German East Africa : in mangrove swamps opposite Zan- 

 zibar, Kirk ! 



Also in Arabia and India. 



2. D. loranthifolia, Warh. in Engl, d- Prantl, Fflanzenfam. 

 Xachtr. zu ii.-iv. 282. A tree 18-34 ft. high; branches terete, 

 ashy- white, glabrous. Lieaves broadly obovate or elliptic, 1^-2 in. 

 long, 10-14 lin. broad, subcuneate and obtuse at the base, apex 

 scarcely acute ; midrib prominent beneath, thick at the base, thinner 

 upwards ; veins 3-4 on each side, the basal very obliquely ascending, 

 very prominent (as well as the tertiary) on both surfaces ; petiole 2- 

 2J in. long. Inflorescence many-flowered, axillary and terminal, half 

 as long as the leaves ; peduncles, pedicels and calyx minutely tom.entose ; 

 bracts very small ; flowers 1-1 ^ lin. long. Calyx about 1 lin. long, J lin. 

 in diam. ; lobes very short, broad, obtuse. Petals twice as long as 

 the calyx, glabrous. Stamens 4, glabrous ; filaments connate into a 

 tube ; anthers sagittate. Disk of 4 glands alternating with the stamens. 

 Ovary 1-celled, glabrous ; ovules 2, basal, or from a short ascending 

 placenta, anatropous. — Platymitium lorantki folium, Warb. in Engl. Pfl. 

 Ost-Afr. C. 279, t. 31 : Solereder in Bericht. Deutsch. Bot. Gesell. xiv. 

 (1896) 264. 



Bfozaznb. Bist. German Easi Africa: Usambara ; Maslieua, 1600 ft., Hoist, 

 8796 ! Lake Yipe, near Kilimanjaro, 2200 ft., Volkens. 



This plant was originally referred to FlacourtiacecB. 



2. AZIMA, Lam. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 681. 



Calyx-tube campanulate ; lobes short, obtuse, usually 4.^ Petals 4, 

 free, linear. Stamens 4, free, alternate with the petals ; filaments free, 

 filiform ; anthers ovoid ; glands 0. Ovary ovoid, 2-celled ; style 

 scarcely any; stigma large, emarginate; ovules 1-2 in a cell, subbasal, 

 erect. Berry globose, often by abortion 1 -seeded ; endocarp mem- 

 branous. Seed globose ; testa thick, coriaceous. — Shrubs with sarmen- 

 tose branches, armed with large pungent spines. Leaves opposite, 

 coriaceous, entire. Flowers very small, dioecious, arranged in axillary 

 clusters or congested panicles. 



Species 3 ; also in South Africa, the Mascarene Islands and Tropical Asia. 



Petals twice as long as tf)e calyx . . . . \. A. tetracantha. 



Petals half as long again as the calyx . . .2. Ai spinosissima. 



1. A, tetracantha, Lam.; A. DC. in DC. Prod, xvii. 29. A shrub 

 with long sarmentose tetragonal branches ; spines 2-4 from a node, 



