Azi7na.] lxxxiii. salvadorace.'E (baker). 21 



straight, woody, often 1 in. or more long. Leaves oblong, mucronate, 

 1-2 in. long; petiole very short. Flowers in clusters or short panicles 

 with congested branches in the axils of the leaves; bracts ovate, acute. 

 Calyx yV in. long ; teeth short. Petals greenish-white, linear, twice as 

 long as the cal} x. Berry whitish, ^ in. diam. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. i. G59. Monetia harlerioides, L'Herit. ; Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. 

 i. 474 



Nile Xiand. Uganda, Scott-Elliot, 7219 ! 



Iiower Guinea. Lower Congo, Smith! Angola: along the const region of 

 Loanda, jRa/?' ray / Welivitsch, 94.2! 4649,54.03! Icolo e Bengo; n.^ar Dafundn, 

 JFelivitsch, 943. 



Mozamb. Sist. Geiman East Africa: Dar-es-Salaani, ^ir^ / Poriuguese 

 East Africa : Zambesi Delta; Vicente, Scott/ Lower Z mibesi ; Tete, Kirk! 

 Shi^Ojjo, Kirk ! 



Also in South Africa, the Mascirene Isl mds and Tro})ical Asia. 



2. A. spinosissixna, Engl. Jahrb. xix. 147. Branchlecs and 

 young leaves shortly pubescent, mature glabrescent. Stipular spines 

 lJ-2 in. long. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, conspicuously 

 mucronate, \h in. long. Inflorescence a spike composed of sessile o- 

 flowered congested cymes ; bracts lanceolate, mucronate. Calyx yV in. 

 long ; teeth half as long as the tube. Petals lanceolate, half as long 

 again as the calyx. 



Iiower Crulnea. German South-west Af ric;i : Damaraland ; Otyimbinjue, 

 Gurich, 60. 



?y. SALVADORA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 681. 



Calyx-tube broadly campanulate ; segments 4, ovate, obtuse. 

 Corolla-tube very short ; segments 4, broad, obtuse. Stamens 4, 

 inserted in the corolla-tube ; filaments free, very short, slightly 

 flattened ; anthers orbicular ; glands sometimes present. Ovary ovoid, 1- 

 celled ; style very short ; stigma capitate; ovule i, basal, erect. Drupe 

 globose ; endocarp chartaceous. Seed erect, globose ; testa thin. — 

 Shrubs or small trees, with unarmed branches. Leaves opposite, 

 entire, coriaceous. Flowers very small, subunisexual, panicled. 



A second species in Arabia and India. 



1. S. persica, Garcin ; DC. Prod. xvii. 28. A much-branched 

 shrub or small tree, glabrous in all its parts, covering sometimes an 

 area of 80 ft. ; branchlets white, terete. Leaves oblong, coriaceous, 2-3 

 in. long, rarely ovate or suborbicular, pale green ; petiole \-\ in. long. 

 Panicles copiously produced from the end of the branchlets and axils 

 of the upper leaves ; pedicels very short ; bracts minute. Calyx pale 

 green, under ^ lin. long. Corolla greenish-white, yV in. long. Stamens 

 shorter than the corolla. Drupe the size of a pea. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. 

 PI. Welw. i. 659 ; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 168; Oliver in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xxix. 106. S. O'asmiervia, Hochst. in Schimp. PI. Abyss. 



