Salia.] XLV. SABIACE.S. (J. D. Hooker.) 3 



7. S. limoniacea, Wall. Cat. 1000; leaves oblong or lanceolate acute 

 or acuminate thickly coriaceous, panicles long glabrous, petals broadly oblong, 

 stamens included. Hook. f. fy T. Fl. Ind. i. 210. Celastrinea, Wall. Cat. 

 0015; Griff. Notul. iv. 423; Ic. PL As. t. 668 f. 2. 



TROPICAL SIKKIM, BHOTAN, and the KHASIA MTS., ascending to 3000 ft. ; 

 SILHET, ASSAM and CHITTAGONG. 



A lofty climber. Leaves 3-7 by 1| 2^ in., base rounded or acute, much reticulate 

 when dry ; nerves oblique, incurved. Panicles reddish, quite glabrous, axillary or a 

 little supra-axillary, with persistent bud-scales at their bases. Flowers minute, 

 yellowish. Sepals orbicular. Petals ^ in., shortly clawed, obovate, 5-nerved, fleshy. 

 Filaments fleshy, incurved. This approaches the Javanese 8. menjscojta, Bl. 



8..S. paniculata, Edgw. in Hook. f. $ T. Fl. Ind. i. 211; branches 

 glabrous, leaves elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate acute coriaceous base rounded 

 or acute, panicles long pilose, petals oblong, stamens included. Brandis For. 

 Flor. 117. 



Subtropical WESTERN HIMALAYA ; in Kumaon and Garwhal, ascending to 3000 ft. 



Branches glabrous. Leaves 5-8 by 1^3 in., glabrous, young puberulous, much 

 reticulate ; nerves oblique, arched. Sepals elliptic, 1 -nerved, densely hairy. Petals 

 ^L-| in., oblong, subacute, 3-5-nerved. Filaments ligulate. Drupes | in. diam., 

 usually solitary, orbicular, compressed. 



9. S. tomentosa, Hook. f. ; branches and nerves of leaves beneath 

 tomentose, leaves elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate acute, petiole very short, panicles 

 branched many-flowered and glabrous, petals linear-oblong, stamens included. 



UPPER ASSAM? alt. 3500 ft., Griffith. 



Branches slender, the younger clothed with soft spreading hairs, as are the petioles. 

 Leaves 2| by 1 in., rather coriaceous, bullate between the spreading nerves, which are 

 very prominent and hairy beneath ; petiole -^ in. Panicle much branched, many- 

 flowered, peduncle puberulous; branches and pedicels slender, glabrous. Flowers 

 TZ in. diam. Filaments ligulate, shorter than the petals. Fruit didymous, of two 

 obovoid diverging rugose subcompressed carpels, each nearly | in. long. The only 

 specimen I have seen has but two leaves, and is remarkable for its very short petioles 

 and tomentum. There is no habitat on the ticket, which resembles those of Griffith's 

 journey from Upper Assam to Birma. It contains the following inscription: 

 "Sabia sp., fructibus subrotundis. 15. Alt. 3500." 



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10. S. viridissima, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, ii. 304; 

 glabrous, leaves obovate- to elliptic-lanceolate acuminate membranous, petiole 

 -f in., panicles lax, style 3-fid, stigma curved. 



ANDAMAN ISLDS., Kurz. 



Leaves 6-8 in., acuminate at both ends. Flowers small, white, pedicels \ in., slender, 

 thickened above. Sepals glabrous, ovate, obtuse. Petals almost | in. long. Stigmas 

 horse-shoe shaped. Fruit unknown. I know nothing of this species beyond Kurz's 

 description. 



2. 1VIELIOS1VXA, Blume. 



, Koxb., WELLitfGTONiA, Meissn.) 



Trees or shrubs, usually pubescent or tomentose. Leaves simple or odd-pin- 

 nate ; leaflets subopposite, the terminal rarely wanting. Flowers in branched 

 terminal or terminal and axillary panicles, small or minute, hermaphrodite ; 

 bracts caducous. Bracteoles and sepals 5-9, persistent, forming an uninterrupted. 

 whorl round the much larger petals, outer smaller. Petals 5 ; 3 large, nearly 

 orbicular, valvate, or imbricate ; 2 smaller, interior, placed behind the fertile 



