Grewia.] TILIACE (Harv.) 225 
vegetable structure, wonderfully accurate, considering the imperfect condition of the 
microscope in those early times. 
1. G. occidentalis (Linn.); young twigs siecait older glabrous ; 
leaves petiolate, ovate, obtuse or acute or acuminate, crenate, glabrous, 
3-nerved at base ; peduncles opposite the leaves or terminal, forked, 3- 
6-flowered ; flower-buds roundish-oval, obtuse; sepals lanceolate, canes- 
ee nerveless, longer than the petals; ovary villous ; drupe depressed, 
aringly hispid. DC. Prod, . p. pir. HG Zl No. 412. G. obtusi- 
polia, EL. & Z.! No. 412. G. trinervis, E. Mey.! and Drege, No. 7265. 
: : 
His. Th‘ mointdin Wines, from Capetown to Port Natal, common. (Herb. Ai rae 
<10.D., &e;) SW 
A middle sized tree, nearly glabrous, except on the young shoots and about the hae te wi 
inflorescence. Flowers purple. Leaves 1-2 inches long, very variable in shape, a [ ( 
sometimes sub-rotund and very obtuse, sometimes much acuminate. “\ 
2: G. caffra (Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 2. p. 53); young twigs and 
leaves seabrous, older glabrous ; leaves on short petioles, ovate-oblong, 
acutely mucronate, finely serrulate, glabrous, 3-nerved at base; peduncles 
opposite the leaves, forked, 2-6-flowered ; fi,-buds linear-oblong, swollen 
at base; sepals one-nerved, Jonger than the petals, canescent; ovary 
scaly ; drupe globose, glabrous, yellow. 
Has. Port Natal, Krauss! Gueinzius! T. Williamson! Delagoa Bay, Forbes! 
(Herb, T.C.D., Hook. if 
Very much resembling G. officinalis, but well characterized by its sharply serrulate 
_ (not crenate) leaves and “ote (not sub-globose) flower-buds and by the very dissi- 
milar drupe. Flowers purple. 
3. G. obtusifolia (Willd. Hort. Berol. p. 566); “leaves oblong-ellip- 
tical, obtuse at both ends, hairy, acutely and unequally serrate.” DC. 
Prod. 1. p. 512. 
Has. South Africa, Willdenow. 
We are unacquainted with this species. 
4. G. flava (DC. Hort. Monsp. p. #03) penne’ acd digs “rigid, 
canescent ; leaves on short petioles, exactly elliptical, very obtuse, crenu- 
late, glabrous above, canescent below, 3-nerved at base; peduncles one- 
flowered; fl.-buds oblong ; sepals 3- -nerved, longer than the bifid petals, 
canescent ; drupes bilobedy - hispid and furrowed. DC. Prod. 1. 
P: o. 
ell) Wisds waar Ulienlage 3&2; 
s itely Aaah Fens, canescent shrub, with small, exactly oval 
leaves and yellow flowers. The berries are eaten by the country-folk. Leaves 4 inch 
long, } inch wide. 
5. G. cana (Sond. in Linn, 23. p . 20); twigs densely tomentose and = 
-canescent ; leaves on short pian: < oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse, finely 
serrulate, 3-nerved at base, velvetty and canescent on both surfaces ; Ye ae 
duncles solitary, one-flowered ; fl.-buds sub-globose, tomentose ; sepals ey 
3-nerved, longé than the yellow petals ; ovary villous ; ; drupe depressed, Oe eas 
black, thinly tsepid” Sond. l.c. 
Has. Macallisberg, Burke and Zeyher! (Herb. Hook., T.C.D., Sond.). 
A much and ae divaricately branched shrub. —_ a 
