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LIGUSTRUM, Liuu. 



Shrubs 01' small trees. Leaves opposite, entire. Flowers bisexual, 

 in terminal trichotomous panicles. Caljx small, 4-toothed. Corolla 

 4-lobed. Ovary 2-celled with 2 ovules in each cell. Fruit a berry. 

 Seeds 4, albuminous. 



L. neilgherrense, Wgt. Ic. t. 1243 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 615 ; Dalz. &Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. ir)9. L. rnhtiKfion, Bedd. Fb i^lyv. 153. Kangin, M. On the 

 higher ghats of the Konkan aiid North Kauara, common in the moist 

 forests near the Tinai gh/it. Fl. Aug., Sept. Fr. ripe January. 



Okder 57. SALVADORACE^. 



Trees or shrubs, unarmed or spinous. Leaves opposite, entire. 

 Flowers clustered or panicled, dioecious or polygamo-dimorphic. 

 Calyx free, 3-5-fid. Corolla shoitly campanulate or petals free, 

 4-merous, imbricate in bud. Stamens 4, filaments free or connate 

 into a tube. Ovary free, 1-2 or imperfectly 4-celled ; style short, 

 stigma 2 -fid or subentire ; ovules 1-2 in each cell, erect from the 

 base. Berry or drupe mostly 1-seeded ; seed ei'ect, exalbuminous. 



Petals free, Stamens monadelphous. Ovary 1 -celled, 



1-ovuled ... DoBERA. 



Corolla gamopetalous. Stamens on corolla-tube. Ovary 



1-celled, 1-ovuled ... ... Salvadora, 



Petals free. Stamens free. Ovary 2 (or falsely 4-celled.) Azima. 



DOBERA, Juss. 



A glabrous tree. Leaves elliptic-acute, coriaceous. Flowers 

 polygamo-dioecious, clustered on the branches of an axillary inflo- 

 rescence, trichotomous in the male flowers, subsessile in the female. 

 Calyx 3-5-toothed. Petals 4-5, free, imbricate. Stamens 4-5, 

 tilaments connate into a tube. Scales 4-5 outside the staminal-tube, 

 alternate with the stamens. Ovary 1-celled, ovule solitary, erect. 

 Fruit subgloboso. 



D. Roxburghii, Planch, in Ann. So. Nat. 3, X. 191. Fl. Br. I. 3. 619 ; 

 Blackburnia movadelpha, Koxb. Fl. Ind. 1. 415. A native of the moun- 

 tains of the Circars, Koxb.; also found in Bombay. Fl. Br. I. I do 

 not know this tree ; it is said to flower at the beginning of the hot season. 



SALVADORA, Linn. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite entire. Flowers hermaphrodite 

 or (mostly) functionally unisexual, in terminal or axillaiT panicles ; 

 bracts minute. Calyx 4-lobed, lobes imbricate. Corolla 4-lobed. 

 Stamens 4, alternating with the corolla-lobes. Ovary I -celled 

 ovule 1, erect, basal. Drupe globose, supported by the slightly 

 enlarged calyx. Seed erect exalbuminous. 



Leaves ovate. Panicles compound. Drupes scattered... S. persica. 

 Leaves lanceolate acute. Panicles reduced to axillary 

 fascicles of short spikes. Drupes clustered S, olfoide^. 



