Compilation
Salacia senegalensis

A glabrous shrub; the extremities usually verruculose, with minute simple or lobed warts. Leaves (drying reddish-brown, paler beneath) rather coriaceous, oblong-elliptical, shortly and obtusely pointed or acuminate, rounded or cuneate at base, obtusely and often obscurely serrulate or subentire, shining above, 2 1/2–4 1/2 in. long, 1–1 3/4 in. broad; petiole channelled above, 1/6– 1/4 in. Flowers in axillary sessile fascicles, often rather crowded; pedicels 3–5 lines, rather slender and not thickened upwards. Calyx-lobes ovate to rotundate; the outer smaller. Petals ovate-elliptical, imbricate. Filaments from the short thick disk surrounding the base of the sessile ovary, subulate, at length recurved, nearly as long as the style; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally; the lobes slightly divergent below. Fruit in our specimen (probably immature) broadly ellipsoidal, 1–1 1/4 in. long.