Salvadoraceae
A small natural order of glabrous or scarcely powdery, unarmed or spiny trees or shrubs, natives of tropical and sub-tropical, mostly Western Asia, Africa, and the Mascarene Islands. Flowers hermaphrodite or dioecious, regular, forming a trichotomously-paniculate inflorescence; calyx free, campanulate or ovoid, three or four-toothed or four-fid; corolla gamopetalous and campanulate, or polypetalous, the lobes or petals four, imbricated in aestivation; stamens four, alternating with the lobes or petals, the filaments filiform or dilated at base; anthers two-celled; panicles short, axillary, often reduced to dense, sessile fascicles. Berries fleshy or sub-drupaceous, indehiscent, usually one-seeded. Leaves opposite, entire. Salvadora persica bears edible berries; the bark of the root contains acrid and vesicant properties, and that of the stem is a tonic. The order comprises three genera--Azima, Dobera, and Salvadora--and only eight or nine species.