TAB. 8859. 
SABIA LATIFOLIA. 
China. 
SABIACEAE. Tribe SABIEAE. 
Sasa, Colebr. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 414. 
Sabia latifolia, Rehd. et Wils. in Sargent, Plant. Wils. pars iv. p. 195; species 
cum S. japonica, Maxim., comparanda sed inflorescentiis cymosis et 
indumento dissimili apte distinguenda. : 
4 Frutex 2-3-metralis; novelli pubescentes cito glabrati, deinde cortice viridi 
: vel lutescente vel purpurascente longius persistente obtecti. Gemmae 
; ovoideae ad 1°5 mm. longae; perulae late triangulares, acutae, minute cilio- 
: latae, persistentes. Folia in macrocladiis laxe sparsa, in brachycladiis 
‘ sub anthesi fasciculata, tandem magis dissita, elliptica vel elliptico- 
= oblonga, apice breviter acuminata, basi subcuneata vel rotundata, 5-14 
cm. longa, 8°5-7 cm. lata, herbaceo-membranacea, primum utrinque parce 
pilis brevibus nitidis tenuibus conspersa supra demum glabrata subtus 
praesertim secus nervos pilis rigescentibus obsita; nervi laterales primarii 
: utrinsecus 4-6; venarum reticulum laxum subtus prominens; petiolus 
= eodem indumento ac lamina nisi densiori vestitus, 6-15 mm. longus. 
: Flores 5-meri in cymas breves plerumque 3-floras tenuiter pubescentes sub 
brachycladiorum apices collecti; pedunculi sub anthesi 4-7 mm. longi, 
maturitate ad 2 cm. producti; pedicelli sub anthesi 2-3 mm. longi, 
maturitate ad 8 mm. elongati tunc sursum incrassati. Sepala tenuiter 
membranacea, ad margines subscariosa, rotundata, minute pubescentia et 
ciliolata, paulo ultra 1 mm. alta. Petala in corollam subglobosam con- 
niventia, late elliptica, apice rotundata et minutissime ciliolata, 4-6 mm. 
longa, e luteo-viridi rubescentia. Filamenta petala subaequantia; 
- antherae late ovato-oblongae, 0°6-0°7 mm. longae; thecae tota longi- 
’ tudine dehiscentes. Ovarium glabrum, disco uréeolato arcte adpresso ad 
medium usque vel ultra cinctum; styli facile separatu coaliti, parce 
minuteque puberuli; stigma punctiforme. Fructus e mericarpiis 2 (unum 
saepe abortivum) compositus; mericarpia compressa, subreniformia, 
coerulea, exsiccando reticulato-rugosa, 8 mm. longa lataque.—O. Starr. 
The genus Subia, belonging to the small but distinct 
order Sabiaceae, includes ‘some twenty-five to thirty 
species, mostly climbing shrubs, fairly widely distributed 
in Eastern Asia. Few of these have been introduced to 
European gardens, and hitherto no species of the genus 
has been figured in this work. The one here described, 
S. latifolia, was first discovered by Mr. A. E. Pratt in 
the neighbourhood of Ta-chien-lu. Twenty years later 
it was encountered again by Mr. Wilson in the same 
JuLy-SeEPpTEMBER, 1920, 
