1896,] G. Kwg—Maleriah for a Flyt-a of the Malayan Femnsnla, 455 
obovate. Siamens included, tlie filamonts clavate, the anthera sliort 
with broad, connective. FrtiU solitary or paired, compressed, obliquely 
orbicular or elliptic, *6 in, long. Hook. fil. and Thomg. Fl. Ind. T, 210 ; 
Hook. fil. ¥1 Br. Ind. XI, 3. Oelastrina, Wall. Cat. 9015 j Sahm sp. 
Griff. Notul. IV, 423; Ic. PI. Aa. t. 568. p. 2. 
Penaug : Ourtifl, Nos, 1221, 2158. Perak: Scortechini, No. 628.— 
DfSTEin. Britifili India at the hase of the Eastern Himalayan and 
Assam Range, Cliittagong. 
Sabia viridisgimHf Kntz in Jonrn. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. XLT, Pt. 2, (1872), 
p. 304, IB, aa Kurz's type spccimeiiB in the Calcutta ircrbarinin clenrty provo, a 
raixtare of ErytkropaJum scandens, Blnine, and. an. uudoscribcd spccioa of Blachm 
which I propoHQ to oamo B. vir-idi9$imat 
2. Meliosma, Blume. 
Trees or shrubs, pubescent or glabrous. Leaves simple or unequally 
pinnate yleajlefs sub-opposite, the terminal oneraroly wanting. Flowers 
in bi-anched terminal or terminal and axillary panicles, small or rainntB, 
hermaphi^tlite, rarely unisexual ; bracts caducous. Bracteoles alid fifipah 
5-9, persistent, forming an uninterrupted whorl roand the petals. Fetah 
5 ; 3 large, nearly orbicular, valvafcc ; 2 smaller, inteiior, placed behind 
the fertile atainena, either membranous and nearly free or reduced to a 
bifid scale adnate to the filament. Stamens 5 ; 2 fertile, opposite the 
smaller petals ; filameot short, flattened, incurved, expanded at the top 
into a cup which bearfi two globose cells that burst transversely, spring- 
ing back elastically ; 3 deformed, broad, opposite tlie larger petals, 
2-fid with 2 empty cells, together forming a cup over the pistil. 
Disc Gupular or aimular, with 2-5 simple or dentate teetli. Ovary 
sessile, 2- rarely 3-cellcd, contracted into a simple or 2-partib1e style, 
stigma simple; omles 2 in each cell. ^Drupe small, oblique, sub-globose; 
stone crnsfcaccons, 1-celled, with usually a basilar rounded projection 
over which the seed is curved. Seed globose, testa membranous ; 
cohjledons conduplicate, radicle incurved. — Distrib. Species about 32 ; 
natives of Tropical Asia and Malay Archipelago, with a few in S. 
AmericA. 
Leaves simple. 
Petals 5 ; flowers '05 in. in diam. ... 1. elHptica, 
Petals 0; flowers •! in. in diara. ... ... 2. MAancifoUa. 
Leaves piunate. 
Leaflet^ quite glabrous. 
A shrub ; leaves IS to IB in. long; leaflets 7 to 
13; main nerves 7 to 10 pairs ... ... 3. JU. nitida, 
A tree ; leaves 30 to 40 in. Jong ; leaflets 21 to 
25 i main nerves 14 to 16 pairs ... 4. if. Uvi$. 
