XLIV. SABIACE.E. 
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[Meliostna. 
(7) M. lanceolata Bl. Rumphia iii. 203, t. 168; King, l.c. 458. 
Small little-branched treelet about 20 ft. tall. Branchlets and 
young parts rusty-tomentose. Leaves 12 to 24 in. long; leaflets 
13 to 17, stiff, coriaceous, glabrous, shining above; nerves 12 pairs 
with reticulations deeply impressed above, elevate beneath, more 
or less tomentose beneath, 3 to 6 in. long, i'25 to 2 in. wide; 
petiolules -2 to -35 in. long. Panicles very large, drooping, much- 
branched ; branches 2 ft. long; branchlets 8 in. long. Flowers in 
small clusters, sessile, *i in. across, cream colour. Sepals 3, orbicular- 
triangular, blunt. Petals 5 ; 3 outer larger orbicular. Stamens 2. 
Fruit sub-globular, compressed, -3 to -4 in. across. Hab. Damp 
forest edges. Singapore, Chua Chu Kang; Jurong. Johor Bukit 
Soga* Gunong Pulai. Malacca, Mount Ophir (Marngay); Sungei 
Hudang (Goodenough). Distrib. Java, Sumatra, S. Siam. Native 
name: Medang Siri. ... , A x 
var. pubescens Hook. F.B.I. ii. 7 > 1S a m ore tomentose state 01 
the plant. 
(8) M. Ridleyi King, l.c. 458. . 
Slender little branched tree 25 ft. tall. Leaves 15 in. long; 
rachis, midribs, nerves beneath red-tomentose; leaflets 11 to 15 
