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acute or acuminated, sometimes lobed, coarsely and unequally 

 toothed, smooth above, beneath covered with white tomentum ; 

 spikes in the male panicle erect, female elongated, almost simple, 

 pendular fascicled ; flowers small, very numerous, yellow ; male 

 perianth 4-divided ; stamina 4 ; female perianth 4-toothed ; styles 

 4, opposite the teeth of the calyx, with thick obliquely truncated 

 stigmas ; ovary unilocular, with 4 parietal placentae ; ovules very 

 numerous. A native of Java, and also of the Ghauts in this 

 Presidency. Horsf. PI. Jav. rar. t. 17. 



SALVADORACE.E. 



1. SALVADORA. 



1. S PERSICA, Linn. Willd. sp. i, 695. A middle-sized tree, 

 with rough, whitish bark ; trunk generally very crooked ; branches 

 very numerous, and with the extremities pendulous ; leaves oval or 

 ovate, veinless, rather fleshy, smooth ; panicles terminal, and from 

 the exterior axils; flowers minute, greenish-yellow; berry very 

 small, smooth, red, juicy, has a strong aromatic smell, and tastes 

 much like garden Cresses ; bark of the root remarkably acrid, 

 bruised and applied to the skin it soon raises blisters, and it is used 

 by the natives in this way. This is said to be the Mustard tree of 

 Scripture. Found common near the sea-coast in Gujarat, and in 

 the Hubshee's Country, and is always an indication of a salt soil. 



CXV. LAURACFJE,.p 221. 

 8. ACTINODAPHNE. 



1. A LANCEOLATA. A small tree ; leaves ovate lanceolate or 

 elliptic-lanceolate, long-acuminated, coriaceous, dark-green and 

 shining above, glaucous beneath, with prominent veins ; young- 

 shoots, before expansion, concealed under a strobilus of bracts, 

 which are larger upwards ; young leaves all silky and tomentose, 

 verticellate in 2 series, 3 and 3 ; flowers from out of a lateral bud, 

 with very short, broad-cordate, fringed scales ; raceme abbreviated, 

 all tawny and silky, with reddish brown hairs ; bracts to each 

 flower large obovate, concave, sessile, caducous ; flowers 8 together ; 

 perianth of 6 oval or ovate, tomentose leaflets, spreading or reflcx- 

 ed in flowering ; stamens 9, 6 in the circumference without glands, 

 3 central, each with 2 bilobed, somewhat reniform, glands attached 

 to each s5d$ of the base of the filaments. The commonest tree at 

 Mahableshwur, next to the Jambool.; most of the trees are only 

 male. 



