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Meliosma. | SABIACER. 301 
rotundate ; petals broadly obovate, blunt, very shortly clawed, 
about a line long, 5-nerved ; stamens finally as long as the petals ; 
drupes compressed, almost rotundate-kidney-shaped, the stone 
tubercled. 
Has.—Chittagong. 
2. S, viridissima, Kz. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. ii. 3—A shrub, all parts 
glabrous ; leaves obovate- to elliptically oblong, on a 6-8 lin, lon 
 Staae acuminate at both ends, herbaceous, glabrous, 6-8 in. 
ong ; flowers small, white, on about 3 lin. long slender pedicels 
ickened upwards, forming 1 or 2 lax, glabrous, short panicles in 
the axils of the leaves ; calyx glabrous ; the lobes ovate, blunt ; petals 
nearly 2 lin. long; style 3-cleft, the stigmas horse-shoe-shaped. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical and moister upper mixed forests of 
the Andamans, especially along the western coasts.—Fl. May. 
MELIOSMA, Bl. 
each cell. Drupe almost obliquely globular, the stone bony or 
crustaceous, 1- or rarely 2-celled. Cotyledons folded.—Trees or 
shrubs, with alternate, simple or pinnate leaves. Flowers minute, 
_ In thyrsoid panicles 
arising from the petals and forming a dome over the ovary; fe 
amens 2 ; ae abaaal globular, the size of a small pea, succulent, 
smooth, black, 1-celled and 1-seeded ; seed horse-shoe-shaped, as in 
Menispermacea, with a hollow process between. 
Haz.—Tropical forests of Tenasserim.—Fl. March-Apr. 
__ ReMarKs.—Wood brown, rather light, coarsely fibrous, but rather close- 
Srained; takes a good polish. ~ 
