584 © POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Grewia. 
three to five-flowered. Pedicels clavate, shorter than the 
peduncles. Flowers pretty large, yellowish. Bractes, or 
involucres several, round the insertion of the pedicels, 
ensiform, caducous. Calyx, the five leaflets linear, three- 
ribbed on the back. Pefals lanceolate, with apices 
acute, but often somewhat serrate-dentate. Nectarial 
glands round, and ciliate. Germ ovate, hairy, two- 
celled, with two ovula in each, attached to the parti- 
tions. Style the length of the numerous stamina. Stigma 
of two, spreading green lobes with ragged edges. Drupe 
from one to four-lobed, one is most common, and the 
abortive ones appear attached to its base on one side, 
smooth, of an olive colour, fleshy ; flesh adull purple. Nuts 
one in each lobe of the drupe, obovate, thick, and very 
hard, one-celled. Perisperm conform to the nut. Embryo 
straight, nearly as long as the perisperm, green. Coty- 
ledons cordate. Radicle ovate, inferior. fg 
It is allied to G. orientalis, but the difference is sufli- 
ciently marked by the shape of the leaves, and their 
glandular serratures in this, independent of its being @ 
tree, and the other always a shrub, and scandent when 
protected and supported ; add also the smooth drupe with 
one-celled nuts. 
2. G. scabrophylla. R. 
Shrubby. Leaves round-cordate, serrate, rugose, above 
scabrous, underneath downy. Peduncles axillary, tw? 
or three-flowered. Drupes round ; nuts four, one-celled, 
one-seeded. 
A native of the upper parts of India, and reared in the 
Botanic garden at Calcutta from seed received from 
Captain Hardwicke, in 1803. Flowering time the ae 
season in April, the secd ripens in October. - 
_ Stem or primary branches several, erect, round. ‘Bark 
of a dark brownish green, and somewhat scabrous. 
Branchlets few, and erect. Young shoots hirsute. The 
