620 xciii. SALTADOEACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) \_Sahadora. 



3. S. oleoides, Bene, in Jacquem. Voy. Eot. 140, t. 144 : glabrous, leaves 

 narrowly lanceolate acute, panicles mostly reduced to axillary fascicles of short 

 spikes, drupes clustered. A. DC. Prodi: xvii. 28 ; Brand. For. Fl. 316, t. .39. 

 S. Stoeksii, Wight lU. ii. 229, and le. 1. 1621. S. indiea, Royle 111. 319. S. persica, 

 T. And. in Journ. Linn. iSoc. v. ISuppl. i. 29. 



Punjab and Scinde, in the plains ; frequent. — Distrib. Aden. 



Leaves 2 by J in. ; petiole ^ in. Panicles many, axillary, mostly of sessile 

 clustered spikes 1-lJ in. ; rhachises after the flowers have dropped rough from the 

 crowded sears. Drupes J in., subsessile, often touching each other., — Closely allied to 

 the preceding ppecies, but well distinguished by Brandis. Wight's S. Stoc/esii is 

 figured from a flowering example which has the panicles rather more compound than 

 usual. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



Salvadoea, Wall. Cat. 7530, is Olax naim, but there is a loose sheet without 

 locality, date or name numbered also 7530, which is Salvadora oleoides. 



3. AZimA, lamk. 



, Rambling; shrubs, with axillary spines. Leaves opposite, entire Flowers 

 small, dioecious, axillary, sessile, or on a little-branched panicle in clusters or 

 umbels ; bracts or leaflike ; bracteoles linear, small. Calyx campanulate, 

 4-fid or irregularly 2-4-lobed. Petals 4, oblong, imbricate in bud. Stamens 4, 

 alternate with the petals, hypogynous, filaments linear ; anthers ovate. Ovary 

 2-celled ; stigma subsessile, large, 2-fid ; ovules 2-1 in each cell, erect, basal. 

 Berry globose, 2-1-seeded, endocarp membranous. Seed globose, exalbuminous. 

 — DiSTKiB. Species 3-4, in Trop, and S. Africa and Asia. 



1. A. tetracantha, Lamh. Diet. i. 343, and 111. t. 807 ; rigid, leaves elliptic 

 acute, flowers axillary clustered, calyx minutely hairy, berries sessile. Wight S; 

 Oardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 49-55, t. 1 ; Wight III. ii. 1. 152 ; Dalz. ^ 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 143. Monetia barlerioides, L'Serit. Stirp. Nov. i. 1. 1 ; Gaertn. 

 Fruct. t. 225; Ro.vb. Fl. Ind. iii. 766; WaU. Cat. 7492. Fagonia montana, 

 Miq. in PI. Hohenach. n. 761. 



Deccan Peninsula and Ceylon ; " one of the commonest shrubs of Coromandel, 

 growing in all situations ; " Eoxbnrgk, &c. — Disteib. S. and Subtrop. Africa and 

 Madagascar. 



Glabrous, or branehlets hairy. Leaves 1^ by ^ in., muoronate or spineseent, base 

 cuneate, glabrous, rigid ; petiole ;J in ; spines ^| in., 1-2 in each axil. Flowers in 

 axillary clusters scarcely J in. diam. ; upper leaves often reduced or obsolete, so that 

 the branches end in naked spikes on which the flowers are whorled. Calyx ^ in. 

 Petals Jin. Ovary 2-celled; cells 2-ovulate, or (ex Wight & Gardner) more often 

 1-OTulate. Berry ^ in. diam., usually 1-seeded. 



2. A. sarmentosa, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 681 ; rambling, leaves ovate 

 obtuse mucronate, flowers panicled, calyx glabrous, berries pedicelled. Actege- 

 ton sarmentosa, Blume Bijd. 1143 ; A. DC. I*rodr. xvii. 30. Monetia Bruno- 

 niana. Wall. Cat. 7493, M. laxa. Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. 3, x. 191. M. sar- 

 mentosa, Baill. in Adans. ix. 289, t, 10, fig. 1-3. Salvadora Madurensis, Dene. 

 in Jacquem Voy. Bot. 140. 



Peomb ; Kurz (n. 3036). — Disteib. Birma, Malaya, Philippines. 



Branehlets glabrous. Leaves 2J by Ii in., broadly ovate, base obtuse, rigid, 

 glabrous ; petiole J in. ; axillary spines \ m., 2 in each axil. Panicles axillary, in 

 fruit 1-3 in. ; bracts minute ; pedicels in fruit 0-^ in. Flowers as of A. tetracantha. 

 Ovary imperfectly 4-celled, 4-ovuled. Berry \ in. diam. 



