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SABI A. 

 Pentandrta monogynia : pentapetalous, iuferior. 

 Ess. Char. Petals lanceolate, persistent. Stamina straight. 

 Drupe superior, rcnifoim, one-seeded. Embryo direct, spiral. 

 N o perispcrm. 



SABIA LANCEOLATA. 



Tab. XIV. 



Native of Silhet, where it flowers in October, and bears ripe 

 seed in May. 



Beng. (at Silhet) SahjA-lat. 



Stem shrubby, scandent, flexuose. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, 

 lanceolate,acute, entire, smooth; 4 — 6 inches long; 1 — 1^ broad. 

 Corymbs axillary and terminal ; forming a loose, ovate panicle : 

 primary divisions ternate. Flozcers 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, sitting on the permanent calyx and 

 corolla. Nut or Pyrene solitary, unequally two-lobed, attached 

 by the middle of the smaller lobe a little above the base. 

 Shell crustaceous, thin, fragile. Seed solitary, attached to the 

 navel by a clavate ligament; honey-coloured; spiral, anfrac- 

 tuous (a single chink on one side, and two on the other, an- 

 swering to plicatures of the cotyledons). Integument single, 

 chartaceous. Embryo erect, conform to the seed, white. Co- 

 tyledons almond-fleshy, writhed (being folded one within the 

 other; plaited once longitudinally and thrice transversely). 

 Scape dorsal, curved, filiform. Radicle conical, inferior. 



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