Azima.} APOCYNACER. 663 
_ 538. Salvadora Linn. 
4 Shrubs or trees; leaves opposite, entire. Flowers small, her- 
maphrodite, or functionally 1-sexual, in panicled racemes or 
spikes; bracts minute, Sepals 4, connate in a campanulate 
_ ealyx; lobes imbricate. Petals connate in a campanulate corolla; 
tube with ipa 4 small teeth between the bases of the fila- 
ments; lobes 4, imbricate. Stamens 4, adnate to corolla and 
alternate with its lobes. Carpels connate in a 1-celled ovary ; 
ovule solitary, erect, basal; style 0; stigma truncate, Fruit a 
globose drupe, supported by the slightly accrescent calyx and 
_ marcescent corolla; endocarp crustaceous. Seed erect, globose ; 
albumen 0. 
1198. Satvapora persica Linn. ; F. I. i. 889; F. B. I. iii. 619; 
E. D. 8. 705. 
Western Behar; sometimes planted elsewhere. 
A small tree. Vernac. 
539. Azima Lamk. 
Rambling shrubs with axillary spines; leaves opposite, entire. 
Flowers small, dicecious, axillary, sessile, or clustered or umbellate 
on sparingly branched panicles ; bracts 0 or foliaceous ; bracteoles 
small, linear. Sepals connate in a campanulate, 4-fid, or irregu- 
larly 2-4-lobed calyx. Petals 4, oblong, imbricate. 4 Stamens 
4, alternate with petals, hypogynous; filaments linear; anthers 
acute. ¢ Carpels 2, connate in a 2-celled ovary ; ovules 2 or 1 
in each cell, erect, basal; stigma subsessile, large, 2-fid. Fruit a 
globose, 2- or 1- — berry ; asbesis membranous. Seed 
ons albumen 0. 
eo; Ariei' TRTRACANTHA Lamk;° Fo BOT. ti. 620; B.D. 
A. 1165. 
Orissa; Sundribuns. 
A glabrous, rigid, rambling shrub. Hind. Kantagur- 
kamai; Beng. Trikanta-gati. 
Pprdricodad an 2 2. Dh LA + he 
Order LXXXIII. APOCYNACEZ. 
Shrubs, twining or erect, rarely trees. Leaves opposite or 
whorled, rarely alternate, entire; stipules 0. Flowers hermaphro- 
dite te, regu in terminal o axillary cymes ; bracts small. Sepals _ 
