N. O. SALVADORACE.E. 771 



base cuneate. Main lateral nerves 9-12 pair, slender, with 

 glands at their axils on either side of midrib. Petiole J-lin. 

 iong. Flowers cream-coloured, in terminal or lateral compound 

 trichotomous cymes. Calyx, four toothed. Corolla deeply divid- 

 ed ; lobes T V§" in - long, elliptic. Anthers large. Ovary glabrate. 

 Drupe Jin. long, ovoid, somewhat oblique, acute at apex; 

 endocarp bony. 



Use : — The bark and leaves are astringent and used as an 

 antiperiodic in fevers (Atkinson). 



N. 0. SALVADORACEJE. 



744. Salvadora persica, Linn, h.f.b.l, III. 619 ; 

 Roxb. 130. 



Vera. :— Arak (Arab.) ; Darakhte-misvak (Pers.) ; Kabbar, 

 kharidjar, pila (Sind.) ; Jhal (Rajputana); Kaurivan, jhar (Pb.) ; 

 Kharjal (El;. Opa, ughai, kar kol, kalarva (Tarn.) ; Waragu- 

 wenki ; Ghoonia 'Tel.) ; Pilu (Mar.) ; Khikan (Bom.). 



Habitat : — India in the drier climates from the Punjab and 

 Sindh to Patna. The Circars, North Ceylon. 



A small glabrous evergreen tree, with usually a short and 

 crooked trunk. Branches many, drooping, terete, glabrous, 

 whitish-yellow. Bark thin, wood white, soft. Leaves, ovate 

 or oblong, obtuse, If by J in. ; some-what fleshy. Petiole £in. 

 Panixllary or terminal, compound, 2-5 in., numerous in the 

 upper axils. Flowers greenish white, scattered, pedicelled. 

 Calyx ^in. loves ovate. Corolla f n almost 5-partite. Filaments 

 short, anthers ovate. Drupe or Berry red, smooth, \ in. diam., 

 scattered ; tastes of mustard. Flowers all the year. 



Parts used : — The fruit; bark; shoots; leaves; juice, and 

 roots. 



Uses:— In Persian works on medicine, the fruit is described 

 as deobstruent, carminative, and diuretic. (Dymock.) It is said 

 to be administered in Sind with good effect in cases of snakebite, 

 and to be used both in the fresh and in the dried state, although 

 in the latter it loses much of its efficacy, and has to be adminis- 

 tered in considerably larger doses and combined with borax. 



