Grewia. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 589 
hairy. Peduncles axillary, longer than the petioles, from 
two to six-flowered. _Drupe twin; each two-lobed; with 
a, solitary one-celled, one-seeded nut.in each. 
A. native of the interior parts of Bengal. Flowering 
time the rainy season; the seed ripens during the con 
months of November and December. 
Trunk trifling. Branches bifarious, spreading ; young 
shoots downy and scabrous. Leaves alternate, bifarious, 
short-petioled, lanceolate, serrate, three nerved, both sides 
downy, particularly the under one, and hairy ; about four 
inches long and about one broad. Stipules subulate. -Pe- 
duncles axillary. In the male two, three, or four together, 
two or three times longer than the petioles, round, hairy, 
each supporting from. two to six pedicelled, small white 
flowers. Bractes or involucres subulate, villous, gene- 
rally one to each pedicel. Calyx ; leaflets linear, expand- 
ing, villous, twice the length of the petals. Petals oblong, 
with apices entire, and the usual hairy nectarial mark 
on the inside of the lower half. Filaments numerous, In 
the male flowers inserted on an elevated receptacle ; in the 
“hermaphrodite ones round the base of the germ, and mixed 
with much white hair. Pistil ; in the flowers of the male 
plant there is nothing like one. In the female it is round- 
ish, and very hairy. Style longer than the stamens. Stig- 
ana very large, stellate: Drupe four-lobed, hairy. Lobes 
about the size of a small pea, each containing a me, 
onc-sceded nut. 
It differs from G. pilosa, in being holy Sulit’ and the | 
nuts being one-celled. It is also nearly allied to my G. 
tomentosa, the best distinguishing mark is the male flow- 
ers in this species. — 
14. G. sepiaria, R. 
Shrubby. Leaves obovate, serrate. Peduncles axillary, 
solitary, three-flowered. Berries twin, singly two-lobed, 
with one seed in each. — Ho oe pempiindlil -edtiiglh 
