Metiosma.] XLV. SABIACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 5 



Wall. ; Wt. $ Ant. in Ed. New Phil. Journ. 1833, 178 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 115 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 964, 3 j Thwaites Enum. 59 ; Bedd. Ft. Sylv. Anal. Gen. 77 j Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. Man. 77. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; from the Concan southwards. CEYLON, Central Province, 

 alt. 5-7000 ft. 



Very similar to M. pungens, and perhaps only a form of that plant ; but the habit 

 is more robust, the leaves usually broader in proportion, less tapered to the base, and 

 quite entire, often more oblong-elliptic, with rarely a caudate apex, and if toothed the 

 teeth are less spinulose ; the flowers are of the same size, and similarly aggregated ; 

 the fruit also appears to be of the same size. 



^ 4. HI. simplicifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 103; Cor. PI. t. 254 (Millingto- 

 nia) ; leaves membranous obovate oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate quite en- 

 tire or toothed when young glabrous or pubescent beneath, flowers sessile 

 distinct, sepals and bracteoles about 6 ciliate outer narrow hairy on the 

 back. Wall. Cat. 8114 B, C, D ; W $ A. Prodr. 115 (MiUingtonia) ; M. 

 integrifolia, Wall. Cat. 8114 G (MiUingtonia); Thwaites Enum. 59; Griff. 

 Notul. iv. 162 ; Ic. PL As. t. 442 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. 77. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; Nipal, Wallich ; Sikkim, alt. 2-4000 ft. J. H. D. ; Bhotan 

 Griffith KHASIA MTS. ascending to 3000 ft. ; ASSAM, SYLHET, TENASSEEIM at Mergui, 

 Griffith ; WESTERN PENINSULA, in subalpine forests, Beddome. CEYLON, common up 

 to an elevation of 3000 ft. DISTRIB. Java ? 



A large tree; branchlets and petioles puberulous, panicles pubescent. Leaves 6--16 

 by 4-7 in., narrowed into the petiole, young sometimes obtusely toothed, usually 

 membranous, shortly acuminate, glabrous or puberulous beneath, with strong raised 

 nerves ; petiole ^2 in. Panicle often longer than the leaves, sometimes leafy, or 

 panicles in the upper axil ; branches slender. Flowers much smaller than in M. Wightii, 

 not glomerated, more hairy on the bracts and sepals, which are much more acute. 

 Fruit about in. diam. Miquel gives this as a native of Java, but I have seen no 

 specimen from Java exactly according with it. I have seen no Western Peninsula 

 specimens of this, but Beddome says it is' common on the Ghats, about 2-3000 ft. 

 elevation, above which its place is taken by M. pungens (Wightii). 



5. TC. elliptic a, Hook. f. ; leaves coriaceous elliptic acuminate at both 

 ends quite entire densely rufous pubescent or tomentose beneath, panicle 

 densely tomentose, flowers sessile distinct, sepals and bracteoles 3-6, orbicular 

 very coriaceous subciliate, petals very coriaceous sufovalvate. Sabia? flori- 

 bunda, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. i. 521. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay ; SINGAPORE, Lobb. 



A tree ? ; branchlets, petioles, leaves beneath and panicles clothed with very soft 

 rusty dense almost velvety tomentum. Leaves 3-7 by 1^-3 in., glabrous except the 

 pubescent midrib above, quite entire, rarely oblanceolate, narrowed into the petiole ; 

 nerves arched, very prominent beneath ; petiole -\ in. Panicle as in the genus, 

 usually larger than the leaves. Flowers of the size of M. simplicifolia, very distinct 

 from all the preceding in the small coriaceous glabrous sepals. Staminal scales 

 2-fid, ciliate at the tip (Maingay) Kurz (Jour. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, ii. 74) refers 

 Sabia ? floribunda of Miquel to M. simplicifolia, meaning no doubt this species, under 

 which I hence cite it. 



6. 3MC. lancifolia, Hook. f. ; clothed with spreading villous pubescence, 

 leaves very long oblanceolate acuminate membranous, flowers sessile, aggre- 

 gated, sepals and bracteoles 6 outer lanceolate ciliate and hairy on the back 

 inner glabrous oblong. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



Branchlets cylindric, clothed with a rough and much 'more spreading pubescence 

 than in any of the other species, especially on the panicle and nerves of the leaves be- 



