Salvadora] LXXII. SALYADORACEiE 453 



Order LXXII. SALVADORACEjE. Gen. PI. ii. 680. 



Glabrous shrubs or trees, 1. opposite, entire, stipules minute. Fl. small, 

 tetramerous, in panicled spikes or racemes. Calyx small, corolla membranous, 

 deeply 4-cleft or petals distinct, imbricate in bud. Stamens 4, filaments short, 

 inserted at the base of corolla-tube, alternating with its lobes, disk hypogynous, 

 4-lobed. Ovary free, 1-2-celled, stigma subsessile, 2-lobed, ovules 1 or 2 in each 

 cell, ascending. Seeds 1—1, cotyledons fleshy, plano-convex, albumen 0. 



Islands of phloem iu the wood of most species. 



Unarmed, corolla gamopetalous. ovary 1-celled . . 1. Salvadora. 

 Unarmed, petals free, ovary 1-eelled .... Doiieua (p. 453). 



Armed, petals free, ovary 2-celled 2. Azima. 



1. SALVADORA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. (319. 



Evergreen, leaves between coriaceous and flesh}'. Fl. in the axils of decidu- 

 ous bracts. Ovary 1-celled, fr. a small 1-seeded berry, supported by the 

 persistent calyx, endocarp crustaceous. Species 2. 



1. S. persica, Linn.: Roxb. Cor. PL t. 26; Wight Ic. t, 1621.— Syn. S. 

 indica, Wight 111. t. 181; S. Wightiana, Planch.; E-edd. Fl. Sylv. t. 247. 

 Vera. Kabbar, Pilu, Sind ; ./lull, Jal, Rajputaua : Khakhin, Kickni, Mar.; 

 Qhunia, Tel. ; Goni, Kan. ; Opa, Tam. 



A large evergreen shrub or small tree, the trunk often attaining a consider- 

 able size, wood soft, whitish-yellow. Bark of old stems irregularly rugose, 

 that of branches shining, often almost white. Branches spreading, extremities 

 drooping, 1. glaucous-green, obtuse, rarely acute, varying from ovate to lanceo- 

 late, blade 2-3, pet. J-§ in. Fl. greenish-white, pedicellate, in lax axillary 

 and terminal panicles, which often are nodding and longer than leaves, 

 branches racemose, divaricate. Corolla-lobes twice the length of calyx and 

 generally reflexed. Berries red when ripe. 



Baluchistan, Sind. Trans Indus. Punjab. Aravalli lulls. Guzerat, the Konkan 

 and North Kanara near the coast. Along tidal creeks Thana district with Mgiceras 

 and Avicennia (Ryan). Babul Koruns and elsewhere in tin 1 Deccan. Frequent on 



sn I in.' soils. Fl. Nov.-May, also at other times. — (.Vy Ion. dry country, chiefly near the 

 coast. Dry regions of Western Asia. Egypt. Abyssinia. 



2. S. oleoides, Dene.; Braudis F. Fl. t. 39. Vera. Kabbar, Dior, Jhar, 



Sind : Jill, Vim, I'ilii, Punjab. 



A gregarious shrub or small tree, branches stiff, divergent, 1. dull grey, 

 linear or lanceolate. Fl. greenish-white, sessile, in erect compact axillary 

 panicled spikes, shorter than 1. Corolla as long as or a little longer than calyx. 

 Fr. yellow when ripe, reddish-brown when dry. 



Central and Northern Sind. Common inthedriesl part of the Punjab on both sides 

 of the In. Iu~, ascending to 8,000 ft. Trans Indus and t.. _'.|ihi ft. in the Salt iange. 

 Merwara, less common than 1. PI. Feb.-April. Aden, Arabia. 



Dobera Roxburgb.il, Planch, sin.l. Arabia. Abyssinia. Kordofan. Eastern 



tropical Africa. A glabrous tree, 1. coria us. elliptic or obovate, blade 2 :i. |K-t . ^-J 



in. lone. PI. dioicous, sessile, on short axillary panicles Calyx ovoid, irregularly 

 ;; Moothed, petals I, narrowh oblong, imbricate, stamens 1. filaments connate, ovary 

 l r elled, ovule I. basal. Fr. gloliose ; in. diam., -.■•■.! erect. 



2, AZIMA, Lam.; PI. lb-it. I.,.l. iii. 620. 



Shrubs, spines axillary, single or ■_' 7. Fl. dioicous, tetramerous, calyx 

 canipanulnte. l-ii<l or irregularly 2 4-lobed, petals I. oblong, imbricate in bud. 

 Merry globose 1 2-sceded, endocarp membranous. Species •_>. 



I. A. tetracantha, Lomk. ; Wight 111. t. L52, Common in the drier districts of the 

 Western Peninsula, often gregarious. Sundriban. PI. throughout the year. Ceylon, 

 dry region. Arabia. Madagascar. Tropical Africa. A rigid Bhrub, branobea green 



