Grewia. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 583 
_ Ssules cylindric, ten-ribbed, five-celled ; seeds + imperfectly 
separated. 
A native of Bengal. Bin wasn time. the aa of he 
rains; the seed ripens in the cold season, 
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GREWIA. Schreb, gen. n. 896. 
Calyx five-leaved. Corolfive-petalled. Nectary a scale, 
or fringed gland on the inside of the base of each pe- 
tal. Stamina and germ elevated on areceptacle. Germ 
superior, generally two-celled ; cells few-seeded ; attach- 
ment interior. Drupe with from one to four, one or more. 
seeded nuts. Embryo inferior, centripetal, and furnished 
Ve ee vitae f 
8. G. spatisfolins Buch. 
Arboreous. Leaves rhomb-ovate-, gland-serrate, scab- 
rous. Peduncles\eaf opposed, from three to five-flowered. 
Petals lanceolate. Drupe from one to four-lobed ; nuts 
one-celled. | | : 
A native of Nepal, from thence Dr. Buchanan sent 
seeds to the Botanic garden at Calcutta in 1802, and 
in March April, May, and June 1808, the young trees 
were in flower, and ripened their oh in Sorober and 
November. ~ a se me 2 
Trunk distinct, erect, stout as a man’s arm. -itlek 
pretty smooth, light ash colour. Branches spreading 
much, and covered with bark like the trunk. Branch-— 
lets or young shoots bifarious, round, harsh with stellate 
pubescence, and very short hairs. Leaves bifarious, alter- 
nate, short-petioled, from ovate, to rhomb-shaped, three- 
nerved, serrate, with the serratures obtuse and glandular, 
ofan obscure green, and rather harsh on both sides, from 
two to three inches long, and one anda half broad. Séi- 
pules ensiform, hairy. Peduncles opposite to the — 
solitary, much longer than the petioles, round, harsh, 
