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(2) S. axintarz. (BI.) 
Ident. Bl. Bidjr. 22.—Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind. I. p. 86. 
Engrav. Blume. fi. Jav. 14. t. 3. 
Spec. Cuar. Branchlets angled, rufescent: leaves lanceolate, 
long-acuminate, rounded or cuneate at the base, shining above, pale 
-below, quite entire or remotely toothed: peduncles axillary, shorter 
than the petiole, often very short, covered with scariose imbricated 
scales: flowers scarlet or rose-coloured: petals 9 in three rows: 
berries numerous, globose: seeds 2, or solitary by abortion, 
Khasia hills, flowering in the hot season. 
ORDER SABIACEZ. 
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Climbing shrubs with alternate quite entire leaves, and axil- 
lary, solitary, cymose or panicled flowers: flowers hermaphro- 
dite, rarely polygamous: sepals 5, (very rarely 4) small, com- 
bined at the base, imbricated in axstivation, two outer ones fur- 
nished at the base with a small exterior bract: petals 5, (or 4) 
opposite the sepals, hypogynous, pellucid-dotted with coloured 
lines, deciduous or withering if persistent, imbricated in sstiva~ 
tion: stamens equal in number to the petals and opposite to 
them, alternate with the teeth of the disk: filaments compress- 
ed, fleshy or smooth, ligulate or subulate, narrowed at the apex: 
anthers didymous, laterally adnate to the connectivum, ovoid, 
2-celled, extrorse or introrse, dehiscing lengthwise, valves free 
from the connectivum wherefore the anthers after dehiscing 
become i-celled: disk hypogynous, 5-lobed; ovaries 2, very 
rarely 3, 2-ovuled: styles 2, erect: stigmas simple: carpels 2, 
or solitary by abortion, drupaceous, gibbous at the back: seed 
solitary, reniform: testa coriaceous, marked with coloured dots: 
embryo exalbuminous. 
GENUS SABIA. 
Pentandria Digynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. The native name Latinised. 
Gen. Cuan. Same as that of the Order. 
