70 TEBEBINTHACj;^. [_RMs, 



very short ipetiolules or almost sessile, glabrous above or scMcely tomeutose 

 on the principal veins, very white underneath, with a short close cotton. 

 Panicle terminal, pyramidal, about 4 in. long, sessile above the last leaves, 

 very much branched and downy. Petals white, more conspicuous than in the 

 last species. Drapes covered with a reddish down. 



In woods of the Happy Valley and Mount Gough, but sparingly, Champion, Hance, See- 

 maim. Fortune, Wtlford. Not known out of tlie island. 



There are iu WrigUs collection two specimens, the one with male buds, the other with 

 an unripe fruit, of a diceoioiis shrub or tree, apparently ajlied to Spondias, bat quite insuffi- 

 cient for determination. 



The JfiSB^o, Mangffera indiea, Linn., has been sent in some of the Hongkong collections, 

 but from cultivated trees, without any indication whether it has established itself in a half- 

 wild state. 



2. SABIA, Colebr. 



Plowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 5 (rarely 4), united at the base. Petals 5 

 (rarely 4), opposite the sepals. Stamens of the same number as and opposite 

 to tlie petals. Hypogynous disk 5-lobed. Ovary 1- or 2-celled, with 3 super- 

 posed ovules in each cell. Styles 1 or 3, cylindrical. Drupes containing a 

 single reniform seed. Eadicle inferior. Cotyledons ovate, incurved. — 

 Climbers. Flowers axillary, solitary, cymose or paniculate. 



A small Asiatic genus, forming, with Meliosma and Fhoxanthus, a small tribe, differing 

 from other Terehmthacem chiefly in the opposition of the sepals, petals, and stamens. 



1. S. '^Ti\aiiAzx,e2Lf Wall.; Sooh., and Thorns. VI. Ind.'\. 310. A glabrous 

 climber. Leaves from oblong to lanceolate, 3 to 6 in. long, entire, coriaceous. 

 Panicles loosely racemiform or shortly branched, longer or shorter than the 

 leaves, either leafless or bearing a few small leaves. Petals broadly oval, ob- 

 tuse. Stamens not longer than the petals. Drupes rounded, flattened. — 

 Androglossum reticulatum, Benth. in Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 41. 



In ravines of Victoria Peai, Champion, Wilford. In eastern India, from Chittagong 

 to Khasia and Sikkim. By some mistake this plant has been referred by Seemann to the 

 S. panieulafa, Bdg., a very different species both in inflorescence and flowers. 



Oeder XXXV. CONNARACE^. 



Flowers regular. Sepals 5, persistent, free or united at the base, imbri- 

 cate or rarely valvate. Petals 5, free, hypogynous, imbricate in the bud. 

 Stamens 10, hypogynous, usually united in a ring at the base. Ovary of 5 

 distinct carpels, either all perfect, or 1 perfect and 4 slender abortive ones, or 

 rarely reduced to 3 or 1 carpel. Styles entire, continuous from the inner 

 edge of the cai-pels, with single terminal stigmas. Ovules 3 in each carpel, 

 collateral and erect. Eipe carpels opening along the inner edge. Seed erect, 

 solitary, often enclosed in an arillus. Albumen either none or fleshy. Ea- 

 diole superior. Cotyledons fleshy where there is no albumen, thin in the al- 

 buminous seeds.— Trees or shrabs, without resinous juices. Leaves alternate, 

 pmnate, without stipules. Flowers rather small, in panicles or racemes, usu- 

 ally clustered m the axils of the leaves. 



A small Order, ahuost entirely tropical, common to the New and the Old World. 



