348 BENGAL PLANTS. 
posed or collateral, horizontal or pendulous, raphe ventral. Fruit 
of 1-2 dry or fleshy, globose or compressed, indehiscent ripe carpels, 
basal, with a broad hilum; albumen 0 or thin and adherent 
testa ; embryo large, with thick often contorted cotyledons. 
Stamens 4-5, all perfect and equal; drupes compressed; — 
seer eens 
shrubs 
penton 5, very unequal, 2 only fertile ; drupes subglobose ; — 
M 
200. Sabia Colebr. 
Shrubs, sarmentose or climbing; branches with bud-seales per 
sisting at their bases; leaves simple, ae alternate ; stipules 0. 
Flowers usually hermaphrodite, 2-bracteolate, axillary and solitary 
or in axillary simple or panicled cymes; the members of all the 
whorls opposite. Calyx 4-5- -partite. Petals 4-5; disk annular, - 
5-lobed. Stamens 4-5, inserted at base of disk. Carpels 2 
rarely 3, very slightly connate; styles 2, erect, terminal, slightly 
connate; ovules 2 in each carpel, sul or pte pe 
zontal. Prvit of 1-2 dry or drupaceo 
somewhat compressed and gibbous 2a a Se style. se 
1-2 in each earpel, reniform, with coriaceous testa; albumen 
embryo curved, 
389. SaBIa Limontacea Wall. ; F. B. L. ii. 3. 
Chittagong. 
A large climber with slender branches. 
201. Meliosma BI. 
Trees or shrubs, usually more or less pubescent; leaves sini 
7 imparipinnate, with subopposite adh: rarely Jr: 
stipules 0, a small, irregular, hermaphrodite, in b 
termin Nary ae ; bracts ee 8 
Stamens altogether 5; 2 opposite the inner Soiaby fertile, lames 
short, flattened, incurved, adnate below to the petals, expanded 
=. as @ cup, bearing 2 globose transversely dehiscing — 
cells Springing back elastically; 3 opposite the outer 
