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1. Salvadora I inn. 
Shrubs or trees with opposite, entire leaves. 
Flowers along the branches of axillary or terminal panicles. Calyx 
campanulate, 4-fid. Corolla campanulate ; tube short ; lobes 4, obtuse, 
imbricate in bud. Stamens 4, epipetalous ; filaments slightly flattened. 
Ovary 1 -cel led ; ovule solitary ; style very short or almost 0 ; stigma 
broad, truncate or subpeltate. 
Drupe globose, supported by the persistent calyx and corolla ; endo- 
carp crustaceous. Seed erect, globose. 
Species 2. 
Distribution : — East Africa, Arabia, India. 
Inflorescence 2 — 5 inches long] fruit red when ripe . 1. S. persica. 
Inflorescence 1 — inches long; fruit yellow when ripe . 2. S. oleoides. 
1. Salvadora persica L. Sp PI. ed. I, p. 122 ; Vahl. Symb. I, 12, 
tab. IY ; DC. Prodr. XVII, 28 ; Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 26; Wight Ic. t. 
1621 ; Boiss. FI. Or. IY, 43 ; Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. Ill, 619. 
Salvadora Wightiana Planch, in Thw. Enum. 190; Bedd. FI. Sylv. 
t. 247. 
Salvadora indica Wight 111. II, 229, t. 181. 
Salvadora crassinervia Hochst. in Schimp. PL Abyss, n. 2218. 
Cissus arborea Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. p. 32. 
Embelia grossularia Retz Obs. IY, 24. 
Salvadora paniculata Zuccar. (ex Anderson) . 
Arabic name — Rak, Rhag ; name of the fruit ‘ Kabath ’ (Forskahl) . 
Description : — A large, much-branched, evergreen shrub or small 
tree with soft whitish-yellow wood ; bark of old stems rugose ; 
branches drooping, glabrous, terete, striate, shining, almost white. 
Leaves somewhat fleshy, glaucous, 1J — 2J by §■ — 1J inches, elliptic- 
lanceolate or ovate, obtuse and often mucronate at the apex ; base usu- 
ally acute, less commonly rounded ; main nerves 5 — 6 pairs ; petioles \ — • 
| inch long, glabrous. 
Flowers greenish-yellow, in axillary and terminal compound lax 
panicles 2—5 inches long ; pedicels J inch long ; ' bracts beneath 
the pedicels ovate, very caducous. Calyx inch long, cleft half-way 
down ; lobes rounded. Corolla £ inch long, deeply cleft, persistent ; 
lobes oblong, obtuse, reflexed. Stamens exserted. 
Berries J inch in diameter, globose, smooth, red when ripe. 
Flowers: March 1878 (Perry). 
Fruits: November 1888 (Schweinf . 
Locality : — Plain of Maala (Schweinf., Defl.) ; northern side of Shum 
Shum Range (Defl.) ; without locality (Perry). 
