454 G. King — Materials for a Flora of tlie Malayan Peninsula. [No. S, 



Stamens 4-5, all perfect and equal ... ,.. 1. Sabia. 



Stamens 5, very unequal ... .,. .,. 2. Meliosjia. 



1. Sabia, Coleb. 



Climbing OT sarmenfose shrubs ;, branches with the bud-scales per- 

 sistent at their bases. Leaves quite entire. Flowers axillary, solitary, 

 cymose or panicled, usually hermaphrodite, 2-bracteate ; bracts, calyx, 

 corolla, stamens and carpels all . opposite. Calyx 4-5-partite. Petah 

 4-5, with transparent lines, green, purplish or yellow. Disc annular^ 

 4-5-lobed. Stamens 4-5, inserted at the base of the disc ; anthers 

 extrorse or introrse. Carpels 2, rarely 3, cohering slightly ; styles 2, 

 erect, terminal, cohering slightly ; ovules 2 in each carpel, collateral or 

 superposed, horizontal. Pijpe- carpels 1 or 2, gibbous, with a siib-basal 

 style, dry or drupaceous. Seed reniform, testa coriaceous, dotted ; 

 embryo curved, cotyledons straight or incurved, flat, rugose or undulate, 

 radicle cylindric. — Distrib. About 16 species, natives of tropical and 

 temperate India. 



Flowers solitary, axillary ... ... I. S. sumatrana. 



Flowers in racemes or panicles ... ... 2. >S. limonacea, 



1. Sabia sumatrana, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 370. A 

 woody climber : young shoots with cinereous bark, sub-glabrous. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate to elliptic, acuminate, entire, the base cuneate ; 

 upper surface glabrous, the lower minutely puberulous and sub- 

 lepidote ; main nerves about 5 pairs, much curved, the reticulations 

 wide; length 35 to 7 in., breadth 1*25 to 3*5 in., petiole '35 to '75 in. 

 Peduncle solitary, axillary, '35 in. long (longer in fruit). Sepals broadly 

 triangular, pubescent at the edges. Petals much longer than the sepals, 

 lanceolate, glabrous. Stamens nearly as long as the petals, but shorter 

 than the cylindric glabrous style. Fruit compressed, obliquely ovoid, 

 glabrous, when ripe bright blue with dark spots. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 Vol. I, pt. 2, 619. 



Perak : Scortechini ; King's Collector, Nos. Nos. 2117, 5053, 8205. 

 DiSTRiB. Sumatra*. 



2. Sabia limonacea, Wall. Cat. lOOO. A lofty climber: young 

 branches slender, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, oblong or lanceolate, 

 acute or acuminate, entire ; the base cuneate, rarely rounded ; both 

 surfaces glabrous, the upper shining and reticulate, the lower paler and 

 tesselate-reticulate ; main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, curved, faint ; length 

 2*5 to 6 in., breadth 1 to 1'75 in.,* petiole '6 in. Flowers '15 in. in diam., 

 in axillary or slightly supra-axillary racemes or racemoid panicles 

 usually shorter than the leaves, glabrous ; pedicels longer than the 

 flowers. Sepals 5, green, oblong, blunt. Petals 5, larger than the sepals, 



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