- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:779343-1
- Publication
- Illustrations of the Botany ... of the Himalayan Mountains ...
- Collation
- pt. 9: 319
- Date of Publication
- May 1836
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Salvadoraceae
Nomenclatural Notes
Status: nom. inval. nom. subnud. Royle provided a short morphological description (“the leaves are called ra-suna, resemble those of the lanceolate Senna”) and details of commerce [protologue: S. indica, nob., jal of the Hindoos, irak-hindee of Persian authors, who also give this tree the name of miswak or toothbrush-tree: the leaves are called ra-suna, resemble those of the lanceolate Senna, and are, like them, of a purgative nature; the fruit is called peel and pinjoo. I know not if it be the same as that brought from Hansi, and sold in the Delhi bazar as an edible fruit, under the name of peeloo”]