3. Sageretia Brongn. in Ann. Sci. Nat. Ser. 1 (10): 359. t. 13. f. 2. 1827. Benth. & Hook. f., Gen. Pl. 1:379. 1862; Lawson in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 1:641. 1875; Parker, For. Fl. Punj. ed. 2.90. 1921; Cooke, Fl. Bomb. Pres. 1.261. 1902; Collett, Fl. Siml. ed. 2:92. 1921; Davis, Fl. Turk. 2:524. 1966; Zielinski in Rech. f., Fl. Ir. 125: 11. 1977.
M. QAISER AND S. NAZIMUDDIN
Deciduous or evergreen, erect or sometimes scandent or scrambling shrubs, armed or unarmed, with opposite branches. Leaves opposite or subopposite, serrate or entire, penninerved or with lateral nerves; stipules deciduous, minute. Inflorescence a terminal spike or panicle. Flowers small, sessile or pedicellate. Calyx 5-fid, tube somewhat rounded or urceolate, lobes ovate, acute, keeled inside. Petals 5, cucullate. Disc cupular, 5-lobed, lining the calyx tube. Ovary superior embeded in the disc but not fused with it, 2-3 loculed. Style short, 2-3 grooved with capitate or obtuse stigma. Fruit globose or oblong, coriaceous indehiscent with 2-3 pyrenes. Seeds smooth, oblong with stoney albumen.
A genus of 35 species mostly in Asia Minor, Somalia and S. America. Represented in Pakistan by 2 species only.
