116 XXVIII. sabiacejE. [Meliosma. 



forests, a small tree, 20 ft. high and 2i-3 ft. girth, conspicuous by its large 

 penniveiaed leaves. Small branches reddish brown, furrowed. Bark of stem 

 whitish and corky. Fl. white, with deep yellow pollen, from May-July ; the 

 small fruit ripens from Aug. and onward. Wood reddish white, coarseigrained. 

 Nearly allied is M. myriant/ia, S. & Z., from Japan, the only apparent dif- 

 ference being more persistent bracts, and minute linear bractlets on the pedicel. 



2. M. pungens. — Syn. Millingtonia pungens, Wall. Cat. 8114. D. F. 

 Vern. Gardar, kharas, Kamaon. 



Young branches, petioles, and inflorescence clothed with short rusty 

 pubescence. Leaves coriaceous, pale beneath, pubescent when young, 

 when full grown with rusty pubescence beneath along midrib and 

 nerves, otherwise glabrous, 6-8 in. long, oblong or cuneate-lanceolate ; 

 lateral nerves arcuate, with prominent reticulate veins ; petioles short, less 

 than J in. long, edge with large, distant, mucronate serratures. Panicles 

 rigid, pyramidal, compact, longer than uppermost leaves ; branches at 

 acute angles, branchlets at right angles. Flowers sessile, calyx of 5 ciliate 

 sepals, supported by 1 or 2 imbricate bracteoles, resembling sepals. The 

 3 outer petals membranous, 3-5-nerved, not conform to sepals. 



Himalaya, between 2500 and 8000 ft., from near the Indus to Nepal ; rare 

 west of the Sutlej. A small tree; fl. in May and June ; the fruit ripens frona 

 July onward. 



M. Wiglitii, Planchon, Hb. Kew {M. pungens, Bedd. M. Sylv. Manual, p. 

 77 ; Millingtonia punqens, "Wall., according to Wight & Arnott, Prodr. 115 ; 

 and Wight lo. 964. 3), is probably the same species. It is a large tree of the 

 Sholas on the Nilgiris and other mountains near the western coast, above 5000 

 ft., and of Ceylon, with hard, coriaceous, entire or distantly-toothed lanceolate 

 leaves ;* flowers hirsute, sepals and outer petals conform, thick, with fleshy base. 



Another species nearly allied to these is M. simplicifolia, Blume {Milling- 

 tonia simplicifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 103 ; W. & A. Prodr. 115 ; Griff. PL As. 

 tab. 442). Eastern India, as fax as Nepal, and perhaps further west ; Southern 

 India and Ceylon. A large tree, with obovate or oblanceolate leaves, entire 

 or serrate in young plants, minute, nearly sessile yellow flowers, glabrous petals, 

 hirsute sepals, and a bract conform with sepals. This again is similar to M. 

 angulata, BL, a tree from Java. 



2. SABIA, Colebr. 



Scandelit or sarmentose shrubs with simple entire leaves. Flowers bi- 

 sexual. Sepals 4-5, equal. Petals 4-5, equal, opposite to sepals, imbri- 

 cate. Disc annular, 5-lobed. Stamens 4-5, all fertile, inserted on the 

 disc; filaments thick. Ovary 2-lobed, the lobes cohering with the axis; 

 styles 2, erect, terminal, more or less cohering ; 2 ovules in each lobe. 

 Fruit of 1 or 2 drupaceous or dry carpels ; endocarp hard, rugose. Seeds 

 1 or 2 in each carpel, embryo curved. 



Flowers axillary, solitary or in few-flowered fascicles . . \. S. campamdata. 

 Flowers in large, terminal, and axillary panicles . . 2. S. paniculata. 



1. S. campanulata, Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey, ii. 311. 

 A glabrous climbing shrub, branches woody. Leaves membranous, 

 pale beneath, oblong-lanceolate, 3-4 in. long, decurreut into a ciliate 



