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Sabbatia continued, 

 as the calyx. I. oblong-lanceolate. 

 1ft to 2ft high. 1817. 



Stem loosely panlded above, 



S. stellaris (star-like). JL, calyx lobes awl-shaped, varying from 

 h^lftonearly the length of the bright rose-purple corolla ; 

 peduncles elongated, one-flowered. L obTong- or ovate-lanceolate, 

 or the upper ones linear. Stem 6in. to 20m. high, loosely 

 branched and forked. " 



FIG. 400. SACCHAIU-M -EGTPTUCUM (see page 340). 



SABBATIA (of Moench). A synonym of Micro- 

 meria (which see). 



SABIACE.E. A small but well-defined natural order 

 of glabrous or pilose trees or shrubs, inhabiting tropical 

 and sub-tropical regions, mostly of the Northern hemi- 

 sphere. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamo-dicscions, 

 small or minute, rarely rather large, variably disposed, 

 usually panicled; calyx four or fire-parted, imbricated; 

 petals four or five, equal or unequal, alternate with or 

 opposite the sepals, imbricated; disk small, annular, 

 lobed, rarely tumid; stamens four or five, inserted at 



Sabiacese continued, 



the base or on the top of the disk opposite the petals, 

 usually two perfect and three antherless. Fruit consisting 

 of one or two dry or drupaceous, indehiscent carpels ; 

 endocarp crustaceous or bony, one-seeded. Leaves alter- 

 nate, exstipulate, simple or pinnate, entire or serrated, 

 penninerved. The wood of the Indian Meliosma is of ex- 

 cellent quality, and IB in great demand for house-building. 

 SabiaaHB comprises four genera JfeMona, Ophiocaryon, 

 Phozanthut, and Sabia and about thirty-two species. 



SABICEA (Sabisabi is the name of 

 8. aspera in Guiana). STNS. Schwenk- 

 felda, SchwenJcfeldia. OBD. Rvbiaeea. 

 A genus comprising about twenty-eight 

 species of stove, twining shrubs, often 

 tomentose, rillous, or pilose ; they are 

 all tropical, and inhabit America, 

 Africa, and Madagascar. Flowers clus- 

 tered in axillary, sessile or peduncu- 

 late, corymbose cymes or heads ; calyx 

 tube sub-globose, the limb long, three 

 to six-lobed; corolla funnel-shaped or 

 hypocrateriform, the limb of four or 

 five short, valvate lobes ; stamens five. 

 Leaves opposite, oblong ; stipules intra- 

 petiolar, usually persistent, erect or 

 recurved. Only two of the species 

 have been introduced to cultivation. 

 They require to be grown in a com- 

 post of peat, loam, and sand. Pro- 

 pagated by cuttings, inserted in sand, 

 under a hand glass, in heat. 



S. aspera (rough), jt, white, fascicled, 

 sub-verticillate, sessile. June. I elliptic, 

 acuminate, rough above, villous beneath ; 

 stipules oval-oblong, acute, h. 6ft Guiana, 

 1824. 



S. hlrta (hairvX Ji. white ; involucre of four 

 leaflets ; umbels three-flowered, shortly 

 pedunculate. June. 1. ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, hairy on both sides ; stipules 

 large, cordate-ovate, membranous. A. 6ft 

 Jamaica, 1825. 



SABHTEA (named in honour of 

 Joseph Sabine, F.E.S., F.L.S., Ac., 

 some time Secretary of the Horticul- 

 tural Society of London). OBD. Legu- 

 minous. A small genus (two or three 

 species) of stove trees or shrubs, na- 

 tives of the West Indies. Flowers pink, 

 fascicled ; calyx very shortly toothed ; 

 standard sub-orbicular, spreading or 

 refiexed ; wings falcate-oblong, free ; 

 keel incurved ; bracts small ; bracteoles 

 absent. Pods linear, flat-compressed, 

 two-valved. Leaves abruptly pinnate ; 

 leaflets deciduous, entire, exstipellate. 

 These plants will thrive in a well- 

 drained sandy loam. Propagation may 

 be effected by young cuttings, in- 

 serted in a pot of sand, under a 

 hand glass, in heat. 



S. carinalls (conspicuous-keeled), /(.bright 

 scarlet, three to five in a fascicle, pre- 

 cocious ; wings and standard, lin. long ; keel sixteen to eighteen 

 lines long. 1., leaflets six to eight-jugal, distant, obtuse-mucronu- 

 late, oblong, five to six lineslong. 



S. florida (flowery), if. rosy ; wings and standard Jin. long ; keel 

 in. long, semi-orbicular. 1., leaflets eight to fifteen-jugal, oblong 



SACCATE, 



form of a bae. 



Sac-shaped ; in the 



SACCHABTJM (saccharon is the old Greek name 

 for sugar; it is derived from the Sanscrit carlcara). 

 OBD. Gramineae. A genus comprising about a dozen 

 species of tall, mostly stove grasses, inhabiting tropical 



