& XLV. SABIACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 



stamens, either membranous and nearly &ee, or reduced to a bifid scale adnate 

 to the filament. Stamens 6 ; 2 fertile, opposite the smaller petals, filament 

 short, flattened, incurved, expanded at the top into a cup, which bears two glo- 

 bose cells that burst transversely, springing back elasticatly ; 3 deformed, broad, 

 opposite the larger petals, 2-fid with 2 empty cells, together forming a cup over 

 the pistil. Disk cupular or annular, with 2-5 simple or toothed teeth. Ovary 

 sessile, 2- rarely 3-celled, contracted into a simple or 2-partible style, stigma sim- 

 ple ; ovules 2 in each cell. Ih-wpe small, oblique, subglobose ; stone crustaceous, 1- 

 celled, with usually a basilar rounded projection, over which the seed is 

 curved. Seed globose, testa membranous; cotyledons conduplicate, radicle 

 incurved. — Disikib. Species about 20, nativeS/of Tropical Asia and the Malay 

 Archipelago, with a very few S. America. 



* Leaves simple. 



+ Leaves sei-rate-toothed (see also S. M. Wightii and 4. M. simplicifoUa). 



1. ni. dilleniaefolia, WM, mss. (MiUingtonia) ; leaves obovate or oblan- 

 ceolate coarsely spiniilose-todthed pubescent or tomentose beneath, panicles 

 lax slender, flowers pediceUed, sepals and bracteoles cUiate, petals membran- 

 ous, inner orbicular. Brandis For. Flor. 115 ; Wt. ^ Am. in JEd. New Phil. 

 Joum.i 1833, 179 ; Wt. Bl. i. 144 (MiUingtonia) ; MiUingtonia, Wall. Cat. 8116. 



Temperate Hiwat.aya; from Simla, alt. 4-8000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 8-10,000 ft. 

 — ^DisTEiB. ? Japan. 



A small tree, 20 ft. ; branches, petioles, and panicles covered with soft rusty 

 puheseence. Leaves 6-12 by 3-5 in., membranous, cuspidate-acuminate, nar^: 

 rowed into the petiole ; nerves very many, parallel, ending in marginal teeth. Paniole 

 as long as the leaves or longer, spreading, lax-flowered ; bracts broad, deciduous ; 

 pedicels very short ; flowers white. i)««pe globose, | in. diam., sometimes didymons. 

 —This is very near indeed to the Japan M. myriantha Sieb. & Zucc, which is just 

 distinguishable by the persistent subulate bracts. Wallich's 8116 seems to be a young 

 state of this, with large leaves glabrous beneath. 



2. nx. pung'ens, Wall. Cat. 8114 E, F (MiUingtonia) ; leaves ob- 

 laneeolate caudate-acuminate coarsely serrate glabrous or puberulous beneath, 

 flowers sessUe glomerated, sepals and bracteoles about 7 all suborbicular cili- 

 ate, petals membranous. Brandis Fair. Flor. 116, M. acuminata, Boyle III. 

 139. M. integrifolia, Wall. Cat. 8114 G in part (MiUingtonia). M. rigida and 

 M. ferruginea, Sieb. 8/- Zuca. (in Herh. Soak.') 



SuBTROPiCAi, and Temperate Himaiaya ; alt. 3-8000 ft., from Marri to Nipal. — 

 DisTEiB. Japan. 



A small tree ; branches, petioles, and panicles clothed with rusty pubescence. 

 Leaves 5-9 in. by 2-3 in., very coriaceous, narrowed into the petiole, almost spinulose- 

 serrate, apex long quite entire ; nerves stout, ascending, very prominent beneath ; 

 petiole ;J-1 in. Panicle often much larger than the leaves, spreading, erect ; flowers 

 densely fascicled on the ultimate branchlets, larger than in M. dillemafolia or simpUci- 

 foUa. Drupe J in. diam. globose. — The Japanese specimens have usually longer 

 petioles, but I find no other difference. The densely glomerate larger flowers at once 

 distinguishes this fi-om M. mnplicifolia. The M. integrifoUa Wall. Herb, under 

 8114 G. consists of one specimen of this with nearly entire leaves,, and one of M. 

 simplidfolia, both from Nipal. 



tt Leaves quite entire, or siibserrate when young only. 



_3._ m. Wightii, Planch, in Serb. Sooh; leaves coriaceous obovate 

 elliptic-obovate or oblanceolate shortly acuminate glabrous or pubescent be- 

 neath, flowers sessile glomerate, sepals and bracteoles about 9 broad cUiate 

 the puter pubescent on the back ; petals membranous. Brandis For. Flm:l\Q 

 (imder M. pungens). MiUingtonia simplioifolia, Wall. Cat, 8114 A. M, pungens, 



