226 TILIACE® (Harv.) [Grewia. 
longer and more oblong, downy leaves, which are serrulate (not crenulate). The 
fruits are eaten by the Bechuanas, who also make a sort of beer from them. 
6. G. hermannioides (Harv.); twigs densely stellato-tomentose, rufes- 
cent ; leaves on short petioles, elliptical or oblong, obtuse, calloso-serru- 
late, 3-nerved at base, velvetty on the upper, stellato-tomentose on the 
under side ; peduncles axillary, solitary, hispid, forked, 2-flowered ; fi. 
buds globose, tomentose; sepals 3-nerved, longer than the petals ; 
drupes globose, hispid. 
Has. Macallisberg, Burke? (Herb. Hook.) 
Near G. cana, but with very different pubescence. Leaves 1 inch long, } inch 
broad. Only one specimen seen. 
7. G. monticola (Sond. in Linn. 23. p. 20); twigs densely tomentose, 
with reddish, stellate hairs ; leaves almost sessile, unequal-sided, half-cordate 
at base, oval-oblong, acute, unequally calloso-serrate, minutely pubescent 
or glabrate above, densely albo-tomentose below; peduncles axillary, 
forked, 2-3-flowered ; fi.-buds globose, tomentose ; sepals 3-nerved, 
longer than the petals; ovary villous; drupe didymous, shining, 
Has. Macallisberg, Burke and Zeyher! (Herb. Hook., T.C.D., Sond.) 
A much branched, spreading shrub; all the y parts clothed with rusty-red, 
stellate hairs. Readily known from @. discolor, which it much resembles, by the 
unequally sided leaves. 
_ 8. G. discolor (Fresen, in Mus. Senkenb. 2. p. 159) ; twigs densely to- 
mentose, with reddish, stellate hairs; leaves on short petioles, eqgual-sided, 
elliptic-oblong, acute, somewhat cuneate and 3-nerved at base, serrulate, 
minutely pubescent above, albo-tomentose below ; peduncles two or 
more from the same axil, forked 2-3-flowered ; fl.-buds globose or oval, 
tomentose ; sepals narrow, shorter than the petals ; ovary densely hairy; 
drupe? Sond. in Linn. 23. p. 21. 
Has. Macallisberg, Zeyher, 146. (Herb., Sond.). = 
A large shrub or small tree. Old branches glabrous, with an ashen bark ; younger 
fulvous and densely tomentose. Leaves 1-14 inch long and 4 inch broad. 1 have 
not seen the original plant of Fresenius (a native of Abyssinia), and adopt from Dr. 
Sonder the above name for the S. African specimen here described. It closely re- 
bea i G. monticola, but the leaves are narrower, equal-sided at base and on longer 
petioles, 
(Herb. T.C.D.). 
branches are 
in Herb. Drege ; scandent ; twigs and 
Salas fais derves petiolate, 
