Sabia. pentandria monogynia. 



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Zaire, append, p. 43 1 .) It must not beconfounded with Willdenow's 

 Savia, Sp. iv. 77 1, which is Cioton sessiliflorum, Sw. 



1. S. lanceolala, Cohbr. I. cit. tab. 14. 



Perfectly smooth. Leaves obiung-lanceolate slightly bullate. Co- 

 Tymbs axillary and terminal. 



Beng. Soobja. 



A native of Ss'lhet, from whence it was introduced into the Hon. 

 Company's botanic garden at Calcutta in 1814, where it grows luxu- 

 riantly and blossoms in the month of May. 



Having observed the plant in its growing state I am enabled to 

 make the following additions to the description quoted above. 



A branchy, extensively rambling, smooth shrub. — Branches, long, 

 slender, slightly flexuose, round, brown, while young of a glaucous 

 green colour, surrounded at the base with several persistent, ovate, 

 brown bud-scales. — Leaves of an oblong-lanceolate form, with nearly 

 parallel margins, tapering at both ends, genera ly long-acuminate, lea- 

 thery, lucid and somewhat bullate above, pale and rather glaucous 

 beneath, with numerous, e egantly reticulate veins, and approximate, 

 sub-opposite, neaily transversal nerves, which unite at some distance 

 from the margin by means of slender arches ; rib elevated. — Petiol 

 round, a little furrowed, one-third of an inch long. — Stipules none. 

 — F lowers very fragrant. — Petals opposite to the segments of the 

 small calyx and to the insertion of the stamens, and like the style 

 and filaments maiked with numerous, linear, purple dots. JEstivation 

 imbiicate, conical. — Filaments fleshy, inserted between the petals 

 and the fleshy disc or nectary, with the five, somewhat obtuse, subu- 

 late teeth of which they alternate. — Anthers at first broader than long 

 and nodding, becoming afterwards erect and oblong, bilocular, bursting 

 with a common dorsal, longitudinal fissure. — Ovary round-ovate, divid- 

 ed into two lobes by a pretty deep vertical furrow, two-celled, two- 

 seeded ; ovula erect, attached to the base of the chorda pistillaris ; one 

 of them often abortive. Style with two opposite furrows. Stigma blunt. 



