300 SABIACER. [ Sadia. 
woolly inside above the middle; filaments glabrous or woolly at 
the base ; ovary villous; berries usually solitary by abortion, very 
rarely paired, the size and shape of a large pea, crimson, glossy, 
l-s = d. 
—vVery frequent in the moister upper mixed forests of Arracan up to 
1 200 ft. elevation.—F 1. Fr. Octob.—s.—S 
SABIACEZ. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamously dioecious. Calyx 4-5- 
parted, imbricate. Petals 4-5, equal or unequal, alternating with, 
or opposite to, the sepals, imbricate. Stamens rey opposite the 
petals, inserted at the base of the small disk or on the torus, free 
or cohering with he petals, ‘wal 2 only perfect, the others re- 
duced to scales, rarely all fertile; anthers didymous, the cells _ 
opening “by a transverse slit or pis fee hood. Ovary 2-3-celled, 
with 1 or 2 horizontal or suspended ovules in each cell; tye 
cohering or the stigmas sessile. Ripe carpels 1-2, drupaceous © 
dry, Se cequenin rath shaped or almost Slohdian the 
endo r bony, l-seeded. umen none or scanty. 
‘Copies much folded ; radicle inferior—Shrubs or trees, rarely 
climbers, with alternate, simple or pinnate leaves. Stipules none. 
Flowers usually minute ; inflorescence various, usually a panicle. 
Stamens = all perfect ; drupes compressed-kidney-shaped ; often 
clim . Sadia. 
Stamens 5, 2 only perfect and larger, the others reduced to scales ; 
drupes globular; trees or erect shrubs . Meliosma. 
SABIA, Colebr. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, rarely polygamous. Calyx 4-5 -parted. 
Petals 4-5, opposite the sepals. Diskannular. Stamens 4-5, insert- 
Leaves coriaceous; flowers minute, 2 ip ni ‘ S. limonacea. 
Leaves herbaceous ; flowers nearly 4 lin. in sea oe oe viridissima. 
1. S. limonacea, Wall.—A large scandent shrub, all parts glab- 
oe =, leaves from lanceolate = — nosis ie or acute 
org base, 3-7 in. long, ac acuminate, coriaceous ; flowers 
_ minute, yellowish, on ~ 4 2 lin, ae thick pedicels, forming 
reddish, leafy or leafless glabrous usually axillary panicles 
of the length of the: lentes or longer; sepals obsoletely ciliate, 
