Sabia.] SABIACE^. 183 



Nagpur, 0. and S. India, Ceylon and Malay Penins, ; alao in Baluchistan, 

 Afghanistan, Arabia, Africa, Trop. America, Java, China and Australia. 

 Flowers Aug. to Feb. It makes excellent hedges when properly looked 

 after. The hard close-grained wood is used for engraving, turning, etc. 



XXXIX.— SABIACEiE. 



Climbing or erect shrubs, or trees. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, 

 simple or compound, blowers small, 2-sexual or polygamous, 

 usually panicled. Calyx 4-5-partite, imbricate. Petals 4-5, some- 

 times unequal, imbricate. Disk usually small, annular. Stamens 

 4-5, opposite the petals, inserted at the base of or on the disk, all or 



2 o\\\j "^^xiQQt ; filaments clavate. Oi; cir^^ 2-3«ceiled, compressed or 

 2-3-lobed ; styles 2-3, free or connate ; stigmas punctiform ; ovules 

 1-2 in each cell. Ripe carpels 1-2, dry or fleshy, indehiscent. Seeds 

 compressed or globose, esalbuminous. — Species about 65, inhabiting 

 tropical and temperate parts of the world. 



Stamens 4-5, all perfect and equal . • 1. Sabia. 

 Stamens 5, very unequal . . . .2. Meliosma 



1. SABIA. Oolebr. ; Fl. Brit. Ind ii, 1. 



Climbing or sarmentose shrubs. Branches with the bud-scales per- 

 sistent at their base. Leaves quite entire. Flowers axillary, usually 

 cymose or panicled, 2-bracteate ; bracts, calyx, corolla, stamens and 

 carpels all opposite. Calyx 4-5-partite. Petals 4-5, with trans- 

 parent lines, ^reen purplish or yellow- Dish annular, 4-5-Iobed. 

 Stamens 4-5, inserted at the base of the disk. Carpels 2, rarely 



3 ; styles 2, erect, terminal ; ovules 2 in each carpel, horizontal. 

 Ripe carpels, 1 or 2, gibbous, with a subbasal style, dry or drupaceous. 

 Seed reniform, embryo curved. —Species about 17, natives of India, 

 China and Japan. 



S. paniculata, Edgew. ex Hook. f. ^ T. Fl. Ind. i, 211 ; Brand. For. 

 Fl.ll7;F.B.I.ii,3. 



A glabrous climbing shrub. Leaves 3-7, in. long, elliptic or oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute or acuminate, base rounded or acute, coriaceous, dark 

 green and shining above, reticulate beneath ; main nerves arched. 

 Flowers yellow, in long pilose panicles. Sepals 1-nerved, densely hairy. 

 Petals 3-5-nerved. Stamens included. Drupe orbicular, compressed. 



Dehra Dun and eastwards along the base of the Himalaya. Disteib. : 

 Sabtropical Himalaya from Garhwal to Nepal, up to 3,0U0 ft. Flowers 

 Feb. and March. 



