Grewia. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 585. 
whole plant about three, or four feet high. Leaves al- 
ternate, short-petioled, of a round, or roundish-ovate form, 
and somewhat oblique, having the anterior margins often 
slightly lobed, serrate, from three to five-nerved, rugose, 
tomentose underneath, scabrous above, and of a very 
hard texture, about six inches long, and four or five 
broad. Stipules subulate, hairy, caducous. Peduncles 
axillary, generally from one to four together, of various 
length, two or three-flowered. Bractes small, subulate, 
caducous. Calyx, leaflets linear-lanceolate, expanding 
nearly three times the length of the petals. Petals obo- 
vate, with the apices a little notched, having the nectarial 
scales small, transversely oval, and ciliate round the 
anterior margin. | Filaments numerous, inserted on a 
slightly elevated receptacle. Germ ovate, very hairy, 
two-celled, with four or six ovula in each,. vertically 
attached to the partitions. Style longer than the stami- 
na, Stigma of two spreading, laciniate divisions. Drupe 
the size of a large gooseberry, nearly round, being only a 
little vertically compressed, when ripe of a brownish-grey, 
and a little hairy. Pulp glutinous, and of a very pale 
yellow colour, Nuts four, obovate, rugose, thick and 
hard, one-celled, one-seeded, attached to the base of a 
slender fibrous axis, Seed conform to the nut, covered 
with a double integument. Perisperm two-lobed, unit- 
ed at the base round the radicle, Embryo erect. Co- 
tyledons oval, as large as the perisperm, which they di- 
vide in two. Radicle oval, lodged in the base of the ye: 
risperm, close to the umbilicus of the nut. 
3. G. pedicellata. R. 
Leaves oblong, pointed, three-nerved, serrate, smooth, 
Stipules ensiform, | ~Peduncles axillary and terminal, 
many times longer than the petioles, from three to six- 
flowered. Germ: and finally thé drupe 1 } 
nuts four, one-seeded, : wee aes 
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