XLV. SABIACE2E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Meliosma. 



stamens, either membranous and nearly free, or reduced to a bifid sea] 

 to the filament. Stamens 6 j 2 fertile, opposite the smaller petals, 



scale adnate 

 filament 



short, flattened, incurved, expanded at the top into a cup, which bears two glo- 

 bose cells that burst transversely, springing back elastically ; 3 deformed, broad, 

 opposite the larger petals, 2-fid with 2 empty cells, together forming a cup over 

 the pistil. Disk cupular or annular, with 2-5 simple or toothed teeth. Ovary 

 sessile, 2- rarely 3-celled, contracted into a simple or 2-partible style, stigma sim- 

 ple ; ovules 2 in each cell. Drupe small, oblique, subglobose ; stone crustaceous, 1- 

 celled, with usually a basilar rounded projection, over which the seed is 

 curved. Seed globose, testa membranous ; cotyledons conduplicate, radicle 

 incurved. DISTEIB. Species about 20, natives of Tropical Asia and the Malay 

 Archipelago, with a very few S. America. 



* Leaves simple. 



t Leaves serrate-toothed (see also 3. M. Wightii and 4. M. siniplicifolia). 



1. BI. dillenisefolia, Wall. niss. (Millingtonia) ; leaves obovate or oblan- 

 ceolate coarsely spinulose-toothed pubescent or tomentose beneath, panicles 

 lax slender, flowers pedicelled, sepals and bracteoles ciliate, petals membran- 

 ous, inner orbicular. JBrandis For. Flor. 115 ; Wt. 8f Arn. in Ed. New Phil. 

 Journ., 1833, 179; Wt. HI. i. 144 (Millingtonia) ; Millingtonia, Watt. Cat. 8116. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from SIMLA, alt. 4-8000 ft., to SIKKIM, alt. 8-10,000 ft. 

 DISTRIB.? Japan. 



A small tree, 20 ft. ; branches, petioles, and panicles covered with soft rusty 

 pubescence. Leaves 6-12 by 3-5 in., membranous, cuspidate-acuminate, nar- 

 rowed into the petiole ; nerves very many, parallel, ending in marginal teeth. Panicle 

 as long as the leaves or longer, spreading, lax-flowered ; bracts broad, deciduous ; 

 pedicels very short ; flowers white. Drupe globose, | in. diam., sometimes didymous. 

 This is very near indeed to the Japan M. myriantha Sieb. & Zucc., which is just 

 distinguishable by the persistent subulate bracts. Wallich's 8116 seems to be a young 

 state of this, with large leaves glabrous "beneath. 



2. XK. pung-ens, Watt. Cat. 8114 E, F (Millingtonia); leaves ob- 

 lanceolate caudate-acuminate coarsely serrate glabrous or puberulous beneath, 

 flowers sessile glomerated, sepals and bracteoles about 7 all suborbicular cili- 

 ate, petals membranous. Brandts For. Flor. 116, M. acuminata, Royle HI. 

 139. M. integrifplia, Wall. Cat. 8114 G in part (Millingtonia). M. rigida and 

 M. ferruginea, Sieb. fy Zucc. {in Herb. Hook.} 



SUBTROPICAL and TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; alt. 3-8000 ft., from Marri to Nipal. 

 DISTRIB. Japan. 



A small tree ; branches, petioles, and panicles clothed with rusty pubescence. 

 Leaves 5-9 in. by 2-3 in., very coriaceous, narrowed into the petiole, almost spinulose 

 serrate, apex long quite entire ; nerves stout, ascending, very prominent beneath ; 

 petiole -1 in. Panicle often much larger than the leaves, spreading, erect ; flowers 

 densely fascicled on the ultimate branchlets, larger than in M. dillenicefolia or simplici- 

 folia. Drupe ^ in. diam. globose. The Japanese specimens have usually longer 

 petioles, but I find no other difference. The densely glomerate larger flowers at once 

 distinguishes this from M. simplicifolia. The M. integrifolia Wall. Herb, under 

 8114 G-. consists of one specimen of this with nearly entire leaves, and one of M. 

 simplicifolia, both from Nipal. 



ft Leaves quite entire, or subserrate when young only. 



3. 1H. Wig-htii, Planch, in Herb. Hook ; leaves coriaceous obovate 

 elliptic-obovate or oblanceolate shortly acuminate glabrous or pubescent be- 

 neath, flowers sessile glomerate, sepals and bracteoles about 9 broad ciliate 

 the outer pubescent on the back ; petals membranous. Brandts For. Flor.\\Q 

 (under M. pun ff ens). Millingtonia simplicifolia, Watt. Cat. 8114 A. M. pungens, 



