454 Materials for a Flora of the Mlilatjan Pcninsnla. 



Stamens 4-5, all perfect and equal ... ... 1- Sabia. 



Stamens 5, very unequal ... ... ••• !• Mkuosma. 



1. Sabia, Coleb. 



Clitnbitig or sarmentose shrubs ; branches with the bud-scales per- 

 sistent at their bases. Leaves quite entire. Mowers axillary, solitary, 

 eymose or panicled, usually hermfipbrodite, 2-bracteate ; bracts, calyx, 

 coroll.i, stamens and carpels all opposite Cahjx 4-5-partite. Petals 

 4-5, with transparent lines, green, purplish or yellow. Disc annular, 

 4-5-lobed. Stamens l-^, iuaerteil at the base of the disc; anthers 

 extrorse or introrse. Corf els 2, . rarely .3, cohering ^-lightly : styles 2, 

 erect, terminal, cohering slightly ; ovitZc's 2 in each eai'pel, collateral or 

 superposed, hoiizontal. Bipe carjtels 1 or 2, gibbous, with a sub-bnsal 

 style dry or drupaceous. Seed reniform, testa coriaceous, dotted ; 

 ernhryo curved, cotyledons straight orincuived, flat, rugose or undulate, 

 radicle cylindiic. — DiSTiiiB. About 16 species, flatives of tropical and 

 temper.ate India. 



Flowers solitary, axillary ... ... 1. 8. sumatrana. 



Flowers in racemes or panicles ... ... 2. S. limonacea. 



1. Sabia sumatrana, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 1, 370. A 

 woody climber : young shoots with cinei'eous bark, sub-glabrous. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate to elliptic, acuminate, entire, the base cuneate ; 

 upper surface glabrous, the lower minutely puberulous and sub- 

 lepidote ; main nerves about 5 pairs, much curved, the reticulations 

 wide : length 3'5 to 7 in., breadth 1-25 to 3 5 in., petiole "35 to "75 in. 

 Peduncle solitary, axillary, '35 in. long (longer in fruit). Sej'als broadly 

 triannular, pubescent at the edges. Petals much longer than the sepals, 

 lanceolate, glabrous. 6'/«"'c??s nearly as long as the petals, but shorter 

 than the cyiindric glabrous style. Fruit compressed, obliquely ovoid, 

 glabrous, when ripe bright blue with daik spots. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 Voh I, pt. 2, 619. 



Perak : Scortechini ; King's Collector, ISTos. Nos. 2117, 605.3, 8205. 

 PisTRiB. Sumatra. 



2. Sabia limomacea, Wall. Cat. 1000. A lofty climber: young 

 branches slender, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, oblong or lanceolate, 

 acute or acuminate, entire ; the base cuneate, j'arely rounded ; both 

 surfaces glabrous, the upper shining and reticulate, the lower paler and 

 tesselate-reticulate ; main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, curved, faint ; length 

 25 to 6 in., breadth 1 to 175 in. ; petiole 6 in. Flotcers •!£ in. in diam., 

 in axillary or slightly supra-axillary racemes or racemoid panicles 

 usually shorter than the leaves, glabrous ; pedicels longer than the 

 flowej's. Sepals 5, green, oblong, blunt. Petals 5, larger than the sepals, 

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