Sabicea
(Sabisabi is the name of S. aspera in Guiana). SYNS. Schwenkfelda, Schwenkfeldia. ORD. Rubiaceae. A genus comprising about twenty-eight species of stove, twining shrubs, often tomentose, villous, or pilose; they are all tropical, and inhabit America, Africa, and Madagascar. Flowers clustered in axillary, sessile or pedunculate, corymbose cymes or heads; calyx tube sub-globose, the limb long, three to six-lobed; corolla funnel-shaped or hypocrateriform, the limb of four or five short, valvate lobes; stamens five. Leaves opposite, oblong; stipules intrrapetiolar, usually persistent, erect or recurved. Only two of the species have been introduced to cultivation. They require to be grown in a compost of peat, loam, and sand. Propagated by cuttings, inserted in sand, under a hand glass, in heat.
S. aspera (rough). fl. white, fascicled, sub-verticillate, sessile. June. l. elliptic, acuminate, rough above, villous beneath; stipules oval-oblong, acute. h. 6ft. Guiana, 1824.
S. hirta (hairy). fl. white; involucre of four leaflets; umbels three-flowered, shortly pedunculate. June. l. ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, hairy on both sides; stipules large, cordate-ovate, membranous. h. 6ft. Jamaica, 1825.