Sal V ad or a, 1 



58. SALVADORACE^K. 



221 



April. Fr. Juno, A large evergreen shrub or small tree. Wood red, 

 moderately liard, with a small purple heartwooil. Used for building 

 purposes, agricultural implements, &c. Makes a bad fuel. Seeds yield a 

 green oil. Fruit edible. 



3. AZIMA, Lamk. 



Spinous rambling shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire. Flowers small, 

 dicecions, axillary ; bracts or leaflike; bracteoles linear, small. Calyx 

 campanulate 2-4j-divided, Petals 4, imbricate in bud. Stamens 4?. 

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

 Berry globose^ 2-1-seeded. Seed globose, exalbuminous. 



A. tetracantha, Lamk. Diet. I 343 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 620; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 143. Deccan peninsula and Ceylon. Kantagur -hamaij H. 



Common throughout the dry districts of the presidency ; often in 

 hedges. Fl. Dec.-Mch. Fr. H. S. Fruit white, edible. 



Order 59. APOCYNACEiE. 



Trees or shrnbsj often chmbing, rarely herbs. Leaves opposite 

 or whorled, entire. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx free 

 5-divided, often glandular at base. Corolla 5-lobed, lobes spread- 

 ing, often twisted-imbricate in bud, rarely valvate. Stamens 5, on 

 the throat or mouth of corolla ; filaments short, anthers conniving in 

 a cone round the stigma or free ; pollen granular. Disk annular or 

 lobed or 0. Ovary 1-celled with two parietal placentas or 2-celled 

 with axile placentas or of two distinct or connate carpels j ovules in 

 each cell 2-many, rarely solitary. Fruit a drupe or berry or of two 

 follicles opening along the inner edge. Seeds pendulous, rarely 

 ascending or peltately attached, often winged or with a terminal coma 

 of long silky hairs ; albumen present or 0. 



Anthers free from tlie stigma. 



Fruit indeliiscent ; seeds without coma or wings. 



Leaves opposite. Ovary of 2, combined carpels. 



Fruit a many-seeded berry. Spinous slirubs... 1. Caeissa. 

 Leaves whorled. Ovary of 2 distinct carpels. 



Fruit of 2, 1 -seeded drupes ... ... 2. Rauwolita. 



Leaves alternate. Fruit of 1, fibrous, woody 

 • carpel ... .„ ... ... 3. Cerbeea. 



Fruit of 2 follicles ; seeds winged or comose. 

 Ovules 2-seriate. 



Leaves alternate. Seeds winged. Leafless 



shrub ... ... ... 4. Rhazya. 



Ovules many seriate. 



Leaves whorled. Seeds winged. Climbing 

 shrub .. ... ... 5. Ellertonia. 



Leaves alternate. Seeds winged. Tree ... 6. Plumeeia. 

 Leaves whorled. Seeds comose, ciliate 



along the edges. Trees or shrubs . . 7. Alstonia, 

 Leaves opposite. Heeds with a coma at the 

 apex. Trees or shrubs ... ... 8. IIolabrhena. 



fr. lib more or less fleshy, dehiscent; seeds without 



a coma, immeibcd in luilp ... ... 9, TabebnA.montana, 



