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FLORA OF ADEN. 
Distribution : — Tropical Africa,, Syria, Arabia, S. Persia, drier parts 
of India, Ceylon. 
JJses :—The natives of Aden eat the berries and use the woody 
branches for cleaning the teeth. In Yemen the plant is used for other 
purposes. Forskahl writes : <f In magno est pretio. Fructus maturus 
edulis. Folia contusa imponuntur tumoribus Uarm dictis et bubonibus 
Piahl. Sed vis antitoxica adeo famosa, ut carmine quoque celebretur.” 
(Flora Aeg. Arab, p 32.) 
2. Salvadora oleoides Dene, in Jacquem. Yoy. Bot. (1841) 140, 
t. 144; A. DC. Prodr. XVII, 28 ; Brandis For. FI. 316, t. 39; Hooker 
FI. Brit. Ind. Ill, 620; Aitchis. Pb. and Sind Plants 91; Talb. Trees 
Bomb. ed. 2, 220 ; Watt. Diet. Econ. Prod. VI, part II, 447 ; Cooke FL 
Bomb. Pres. II, 121. 
Salvadora Stocksii Wight. 111. II, 229, et Ic. t. 1621. 
Salvadora indica Royle 111. 319. 
Salvadora persica T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. V, Suppl. p. 29. 
Description : — A shrub or occasionally a small tree with a short 
twisted or bent trunk; branches numerous, stiff, divergent, whitish. 
Leaves 1| — 3 by i — \ inch, whitish-green, coriaceous and somewhat 
fleshy when mature, linear-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acute or 
subobtuse, often mucronate, glabrous; main nerves indistinct ; petioles 
•J— i inch long. 
Flowers greenish-white, sessile, in erect axillary panicled spikes 1 — 
\\ inches long, often clustered. Calyx fa -fa inch long, cleft about 
half-way down ; lobes 4, rounded, obtuse. Corolla a little longer than 
the calyx, deeply cleft ; lobes obovate-oblong, obtuse. 
Drupes J — ■§■ inch in diameter, subsessile, globose, yellow when ripe. 
Locality: — Aden (Hooker, Thomson, Balfour) 
Distribution : — Gujarat, Sind, Rajputana, Punjab, Aden. 
2. Dobera Juss. 
A glabrous tree. Leaves opposite, entire. 
Flowers small, polygamo-dicecious, clustered on the branches of an 
axillary inflorescence, trichotomous in the males, subsimple in the 
females. Calyx ovoid, irregularly valvate, 2 — 4-toothed. Petals 4 (or 
5), narrowly oblong, free, imbricate. Stamens 4 (or 5), filaments connate 
into a tube; anthers lanceolate, dehiscing laterally or subextrorsely. 
Scales 4 — 5 outside the staminal tube, alternate with the stamens. Ovary 
probably 2-celled with one erect ovule in each cell. 
