308 PENTANDRiA MONOGYNIA. Sabia. 



phrodite, however they become simple scales. The genus differs 

 froth Cnestis in the number of the stamina, the simple style, and the 

 smoothness of the capsules; and from Connarus in the number of the 



ovaries and stigmas, and the want of the umbilical caruncula. 



W. Jack, h cit. 



I have gathered abundance of specimens of this tree both at Sin- 

 gapore, and at Pulo-Dinding near Pinang, as well as on the last 

 mentioned island, in flower and fruit from August to November. 

 The branches are covered with smooth, brown bark; youno shoots as 

 well as petiols villous, ferruginous ; leaflets sub-opposite, sessile, 

 scarcely an inch distant from each other, m ore or less oblique at the 

 acute base, the lower margin being always narrower ; underneath 

 they are giaucous, almost veinless, with alternate, remote, sub-trans- 

 versal, broadish, scarcely elevated nerves, which unite near the mar- 

 gin in reticulate arches, and prominent rib; they are inserted by 

 means of a hollow joint on a sub-quadrangular rachis ; the lower- 

 most pairs and the terminal odd one smaller than the rest. The 

 Capsules are scarcely an inch long, of a dark purple colour, pedi- 

 cel. ed, sub-umbe.late, resembling somewhat the fruits of an Uvari$ 

 iu sliape and appearance. — N. VV. 



SABIA, Colebr. in Linn, trans, xii. 351, and 555. 



Calyx inferior, five cleft. Corolla five-petalous. Petals lance©, 

 late. Stamina free, opposite to the petals and calycine segments, 

 inserted round the base of a perigynous, five-lobed disc. Drupe 

 deeply two lobed ; lobes reniform, one-seeded, one of them some- 

 times aborive or wanting. Embryo erect, folded. 



Natural order. Notwithstanding several anomalies it seems to be- 

 long to Terebinlhacetz, Juss. and nottobe far removed from the order 

 of this ext nsive family called Cassuvite by that distinguished botanist 

 {Anacardea of R. Brown iu Tuckey's account of the expedition to 



