XLIV. SABIACEiE. 
Sabia .] 
513 
Petals 4 or 5, imbricate, equal or unequal, opposite or alternate. 
Disc annular. Stamens 4 or 5, opposite petals, all or only two 
perfect, and 3 sterile filaments clavate or subulate; anther-cells 
distant, bursting transversely or with a cap. Ovary 2- to 3-celled, 
compressed or 2- to 3-lobed; styles 2 or 3, connate or free or 0; 
ovules 1 or 2 in a cell. Fruit 1- or 2-carpelled, drupaceous. Seeds 
compressed or globose ex-albuminous. About 35 species, chiefly 
Indian. 
Climbers; stamens 4 to 5 perfect or equal . . . 1. Sabia 
Trees; stamens 5, unequal.2. Meliosma 
1. SABIA, Colebr. 
Climbing or sarmentose shrubs, sub-glabrous. Leaves simple, 
entire. Flowers axillary, solitary, cymose, racemose or panicled, 
small green or purplish, 2-bracteate. Calyx 4- or 5-partite. Petals 
4 or 5. Disc annular, 5-lobed. Stamens 4 or 5, from base of disc. 
Carpels 2 (or 3); styles 2; ovules 2 in a carpel. Fruit of 1 or 2, 
gibbous carpels dry or drupaceous. Seed reniform, testa cori¬ 
aceous. About 16 species, Indo-Malayan. 
Flowers solitary, axillary.<i) S. sumatrana 
Flowers racemose or panicled.(2) S. limoniacea 
(1) S. sumatrana Bl. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. i, 370; King, 
l.c. 454. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate or elliptic acuminate, base cuneate, 
membranous, minutely puberulous beneath; nerves 5 pairs, elevate 
beneath, reticulations wide conspicuous, 3-5 to 7 in. long, 1-25 to 
3-5 in. wide; petioles 35 to 75 in. long. Peduncles 35 in. long, 
lengthening in fruit. Sepals triangular, edges pubescent. Petals 
longer, lanceolate. Stamens nearly as long. Fruit ovoid com¬ 
pressed *5 in. long, white spotted blue. Hob. Rare in mountain 
forests. Hab. Perak, Larut Hills at 1800 ft. altitude (Kunstler). 
Distrib . Sumatra. 
(2) S. limoniacea Wall. Cat. 1000; Hook. fil. F.B.I. ii. 3; King, 
l.c. 454. 
Leaves coriaceous, oblong or lanceolate acute or blunt, base 
cuneate or rounded, glabrous; nerves 5 or 6 pairs, faint, 23 to 
6 in. long, 1 to 175 in. wide; petioles -6 in. long. Flowers -15 in. 
wide in racemes, 2 to 6 in. long, distant. Sepals 5, oblong blunt. 
Petals 5 obovate. Stamens included. Fruit solitary or paired, 
oblique orbicular or elliptic 3 in. long. Hab. Rare in hill forests. 
Perak (Scortechini). Penang, Sungei, Penang Road (Curtis), 
Distrib. India. 
2 . MELIOSMA, BL 
Trees, often small. Leaves simple or unequally pinnate. Flowers 
small or minute, white or yellow in large branched terminal panicles 
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