Sageretia. ] RHAMNACER. 267 
almost globular, the size of a small pea or pepper-kernel, black, 
smooth, edible, containing a 2- or by abortion often 1-celled thin 
wrinkled nut. 
—Very frequent in all forests, evergreen as well as leaf-shedding, 
also in savannahs, shrubberies, &e., all over Burma and adjacent provinces down 
to the Andamans.—Fl. Sept.-Octob. ; Fr. C. S—s: 1. and L—SS.= o, 
Hab.—Frequent in the tropical forests from Chittagong and Ava down to 
— im and the Andamans.—Fl. Febr.-March ; Fr. Apr.—s: L- SS.= 
philous. 
SAGERETIA, Brongn. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx 5-cleft, the tube hemispherical 
or urceolate. Petals 5, hooded. Stamens 5. Disk cup-shaped, 
mersed in the disk, free, 3-celled ; style short, with 3 stigmas. 
Drupe containing 3 indehiscent coriaceous pyrenes. Albumen thin. 
—Unarmed or spinose shrubs, with opposite or almost opposite 
penninerved leaves. Stipules minute, deciduous. Flowers F 
Mm axillary spikes or clusters, or panicled. 
1. §. theezans, Brongn.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 641 ; Brand. For. 
1. 95.—An unarmed or slightly armed shrub, the young shoots 
sightly tawny pubescent ; leaves elliptical to oval-oblong, rounded 
or obtuse at the base, on a slender puberulous petiole 2-3 lin. long, 
‘unt or rounded at apex, 4-14 in. long, entire, membranous, while 
young slightly hirsute along the midrib beneath, soon quite glab- 
rous, pale beneath ; flowers small, sessile, in short small axillary 
Spikes ; calyx minute ; petals glabrous, } lin. long. 
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