28 SALVADORACE^. [SALVADOR!. 



LXX. SALVADORACE^J. 



Shrubs or trees, usually glabrous, armed or not. Leaves opp>site, 

 entire ; stipules minute or 0. Flowers small, clustered or panicled, 

 hermaphrodite or dioecious. Calyx fi\)e, campanulate or ovoid, 

 3-4-toothed or 4-fid. Corolla shortly ca v npanulate or the petals free, 

 4-merous, imbricate in bud. Stamens 4, inserted on the corolla-tube, 

 or hypogyno'is, alternate with the lobes or petals ; filaments free or 

 connate at the base. Ovary superior, 1-2-celled, style short, stigma 

 2-fid. or subentire ; ovules 1-2 in each cell, erect from its base. Berry 

 or drupe usually 1-seeded. Seed erect, globose or compressed, 

 exalbuTiinous. Species 8 or 9, in tropical and subtropical Asia and 

 Africa, also in Madagascar and Malaya. 



SALVADORA, Linn. ; PL Brit. Ind. iii, 619. 



Unarmed shrubs or trees. Leaves usually pale green. Flowers 

 sessile or pedicelled, on the branches of axillary or terminal panicles, 

 Calyx campanulate, 4-fid. Corolla campanulate, tube short ; lobes 4,* 

 obtuse. Stamens 4, attached to the base or middle of the corolla 

 filaments somewhat flattened. Disk of 4 scales or glands alternating 

 with the filaments or 0. Ovary 1-celled, style very short or 0, 

 stigma broad ; ovule solitary, erect. Drupe globose, supported by 

 the enlarged c*lyx and subpersistent corolla, endocarp crustaoeous. 

 Seed globose. Species 2, in E. Africa, Arabia and India. 



Flowers pedicelled 1. 8. persica. 



Flowers sessile 2. 8. oleoides. 



1. S. persica, Linn. 8$. PL 122 ; Royle III. 319 ; Brand. For. Fl. 315 ; 

 F. B. I. Hi, 619; Watt E. D.; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 476 ; Prain Beng. 

 PI. 663 ; Gooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 121. -Vern. Kharjdl. 



An evergreen shrub or small tree, with usually a short and crooked 

 trunk. Branches many, drooping, terete, glabrous, whitish-yellow. 

 Leaves fleshy, glaucous ; blade 1-2 in. long and up to 1 in. wide, elliptic- 

 lanceolate or ovate, obtase or often mucronate at the apex, base cuneate 

 or rounded ; petiole i-f in. long. Flowers greenish -yellow, in lax 

 compound panicles : pedicels T Vs in. long ; bracts ovate, a little shorter 

 than the pedicels, deciduous. Calyx -^ in. long, glabrous, lobes 

 rounded. < Corolla t\vice as long as the calyx, thin, persistent ; lobes 

 oblong, reflexed. Stamens exserted. Drupz globose, in. in diam. 

 smooth, led when ripe. 



In the drier western and southern outskirts of the area in the neighbour- 

 hood of Delhi, Agra, Muttra and Ajmer, and on the banks of the 



