FLOKA OF BEITISH INDIA, 



OKDEE XLV. SABIACE.ZE. (By J. D. Hooker.) 



Climbing or erect shrubs or erect trees, glabrous or with simple hairs. 



TJeaves alternate, exstipulate, simple or compound. Flowers small or minute, 



hermaphrodite or polygamous, iisually panicled. Calyx 4-5-partite, imbricate. 



Petals 4-5, equal or unequal, opposite or alternate with the sepals, imbricate. 



"& usually small, annular. Stamens 4-5, opposite the petals, inserted at the 

 ase of or on the disk, all perfect or two only perfect and three without anthers; 

 .aments clavate, flattened or subulate ; anthers didymous, cells distant bursting 

 ansversely or by a deciduous cap. Ovary 2-3-celled, compressed or 2-3-lobed ; 

 yles 2-3, free or connate or 0, stigmas punctiform ; ovules 1-2 in each cell. 

 lipe carpels 1-2, dry or fleshy, indehiscent. Seeds compressed or globose, 

 asilar, hilum broad, testa membranous or coriaceous, albumen 0; embryo 

 arious, cotyledons often contorted, radicle deflexed. DISTRIB. A small chiefly 

 Indian order, with 4 genera and about 35 species. 



amens 4-5, all perfect and equal 1. SABIA. 



tamens 5, very unequal 2. MELIOSMA. 



1. SABXA, Ooleb. 



Climbing or sarmentose shrubs ; branches with the bud-scales persistent at 

 leir bases. Leaves quite entire. Flowers axillary, solitary, cymose or 

 anicled, usually hermaphrodite, 2-bracteate; bracts, calyx, corolla, stamens 

 nd carpels all opposite. Calyx 4-5-partite. Petals 4-5, with transparent 

 ines, green, purplish or yellow. Disk annular, 4-5-lobed. Stamens 4-5, 

 oserted at the base of the disk ; anthers extrorse or introrse. Carpels 2, rarelf 

 cohering slightly ; styles 2, erect, terminal, cohering slightly ; ovules 2 in 

 h carpel, collateral or superposed, horizontal. Ripe-carpels 1 or 2, gibbous, 

 Tith a subbasal style, dry or drupaceous. Seed reniform, testa coriaceous, 

 otted ; embryo curved, cotyledons straight or incurved flat rugose or undulate, 

 idicle cylindric. DISTRIB. About 10 species, natives of tropical and teni- 

 erate India. 



* Peduncles \-flowered. 



1. S. campanulata , Wall, in Roxb. FL 2nd. ed. Carey, ii. 311; Cat. 

 D02 ; leaves oblong acuminate puberulous base acute, petals elliptic nerved, 

 aments subulate much shorter than the petals. Hook. f. $ T. FL Ind. i. 

 )9 ; Brandis, For. Flor. 116. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Simla, alt. 5000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 9-10,000 ft. 

 A climbing shrub. Leaves 2-4 by f 1-2 in., membranous, puberulous on both 

 irfaces, nerves reticulate. Peduncles 1-2 in., subclavate. Flowers f in. diam., 

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