FLOEA OF BRITISH INDIA. 



Oebee XLV. SABXACES:. (By J. D. Hooker.) 



Olimbing or erect shrubs or erect trees, glabrous or with simple hairs, 

 Leaves alternate, exstipulate, simple or compound. Flowers small or minute, 

 hermaphrodite or polygamous, usually panicled. Cdyx 4^5-partite, imbricate! 

 Petals 4-5, equal or vmequal, opposite or alternate with the sepals, imbricate. 

 I){sk usually small, annular. Stamens 4r-5, opposite the petals, inserted at the 

 base of or on the disk, aU perfect or two only perfect and three without anthers; 

 filaments clavate, flattened or subulate ; anthers didymous, cells distant bursting 

 transversely or by a deciduous cap. Ovary 2-3-ceIled, compressed or 2-8-lobed'; 

 styles 2-3, free or connate or 0, stigmas punctiform ; brules 1-2 in each cell. 

 Mipe carpels 1-2, dry or fleshy, indehiscent. Seeds compressed or globose, 

 basilar, hilum broad, testa membranous or coriaceous, albumen 0; embryo 

 various, cotyledons often contorted, radicle deflexed. — ^Distkib. A small chiefly 

 Indian order, with 4 genera and about 35 speciefl. 



Stamens 4—5, all perfect and equal . . ; . . . .1. Sabia. ^ 

 Stamens 5, very unequal 2. Meliosjia. 



1. SABXA, Ooleb. 



Climbing or sarmentose shrubs ; branches with the bud-scales persistent at 

 their bases. Leaves quite entire. Flowers axiUary, solitary, cymose or, 

 jianicled, usually hermaphrodite, 2-bracteate; bracts, calyx, corolla, stamens 

 and carpels all opposite. Calyx 4-5-partite. ' Petals 4^6, with transparent' 

 lines, green, purplish or yellow. Disk annular, 4-5-lobed. Stamens 4-5, 

 inserted at the base of the disk ; anthers extrorse or introrse. Carpels 2, rarelv 

 3, cohering slightly ; styles 3, erect, terminal, cohering slightly; ovules 2 in 

 each carpel, collateral or superposed, horizontal; Pipe-carpels 1 or 2, gibbous, 

 "With a subbasal style, dry or drupaceous. Seed reniform, testa coriaceous, 

 •dotted ; embryo curved, cotyledons straight or incurved flat rugose or undulate, 

 radicle cylindric. — Disteib. About 10 species, natives of tropical and tem- 

 perate India. 



* Peduncles 1-^owered. 



1. S. campanulata, Wall, in Roxh. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 311; Cat, 

 1002 ; leaves oblong acuminate puberulous base acute, petals elliptic nerved, 

 filaments subulate' much shorter than the petals. Hooli. f. ^ T. Fl. Ind. i. 

 £09 ; Brandts, For. Flor. 116. 



Tempehate Himalaya ; from Simla, alt. 5000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 9-10,000 ft. 

 A climbing ■ shrub. Leaves 2-4 by f-lj in., membranous, puberulous on both 

 surfaces, nerves reticulate. 'FeduncUs 1-2 in., subclavate. Mowers J in. diam., 

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