of select Indian Plants. 355 
SA BIA. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA: pentapetalous, inferior. 
Ess. Cuar. Petals lanceolate, persistent. Stamina straight. 
Drupe superior, reniform, one-seeded. Embryo direct, spiral. 
No perisperm. tab. uud 
SABIA LANCEOLATA. 
=, a LAB DEV it 
Native of Silhet, where it flowers in October, and bears ripe 
seed in May. 
Beng. (at Silhet) Sabjd-lat. . 
Stem shrubby, scandent, flexuose. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, 
lanceolate, acute, entire, smooth ; 4—6 inches long; 1—14 broad. 
Corymbs axillary and terminal ; forming a loose, ovate panicle : 
primary divisions ternate. Flowers numerous, small; green 
with a slightly-purplish tinge. Bractes minute, ovate, acute. 
Perianth five-parted, acute, persistent. Segments ovate. Petals 
. five, lanceolate, acute, spreading, smooth, persistent. Filaments | 
five, flat, subulate, shorter than the petals, inserted at their 
base. Anthers round. Germ round. Style columnar, short. 
Stigma simple. Drupe reniform, pulpy, dark-blue, size of a 
kidney-bean, one-seeded, sd on the permanent calyx and 
corolla. Nut or Pyrene solitary, wi qua ly two-lobed, attached 
by the middle of the idin lobe a little above the base. 
Shell crustaceous, thin, fragile. . Seed solitary, attached to the 
navel by sans ligament; honey-coloured ; spiral, anfrac- 
e chink on one side, and two on the other, an- 
icature: cof. the cotyledons). vierte e 
‘tyledons néon SS serial | (being folded one 
other; plaited: once longitudinally and thrice tra 
Scape dorsal, curved, filiform. ps cota conical, inferior. 
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