N. 0. SALVAD0RA0E®. 
771 
base cuueate. Main lateral nerves 9-12 pair, slender, with 
glands at their axils on either side of midrib. Petiole J-lin. 
long. Flowers cream-coloured, in terminal or lateral compound 
trichotomous cymes. Calyx, four toothed. Corolla deeply divid- 
ed ; lobes ^-^in. ^ ong ’ e ^ip t ’ c - Anthers large. Ovary ghbrate. 
Drupe Jin. long, ovoid, somewhat oblique, acute at apex ; 
endocarp bony. 
Use : — The bark and leaves are a stringent and used as an 
antiperiodic in fevers (Atkinson). 
N. 0. SALVADORACEiE. 
744. Salvadora -persica, Linn, h.f.b.i., in. 619; 
Roxb. 130. 
Vern.: — Arak (Arab.); Darakhte-misvak (Pers.) ; Kabbar, 
kharidjar, pilu (Sind.) ; Jhal (Rajputana) ; Kaurivan, jhar (Pb.) ; 
KharjAl (H). Opa, ughai, kar kol, kalarva (Tam.); 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 £ in. ; some-what fleshy. Petiole £in. 
Panixllary or terminal, compound, 2-5 in., numerous in the 
upper axils. Flowers greenish white, scattered, pedicelled. 
Calyx ^ 0 in. loves ovate. Corolla ^ 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. 
