584 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. GrCwia. 



three to five-flowered. Pedicels clavate, shorter than the 

 peduncles. Flowers pretty large, yellowish. Bractes, or 

 involucres several, round tlie insertion of the pedicels, 

 ensiform, caducous. Calyx, the five leaflets linear, three- 

 ribbed on the back. Petals lanceolate, with apices 

 acute, but often somewhat serrate-dentate. . Nectarial 

 glands round, and ciliate. Germ ovate, hairy, two- 

 celled, with t^^o ovula in each, attached to the parti- 

 tions. Style the len^th of the numerous stamina. Sfigtna 

 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; ^es/« a dull 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. 



It is allied to G. orienlalis, but the difference is suffi- 

 ciently marked by the shape of the leaves, and their 

 glandular serratures in this, independent of its being a 

 tree, and the o^her always a shrub, and scandent when 

 protected and supported ; add also the smooth drupe with 

 one-celled nuts. 



2. G. scahrophylla. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves round cordate, serrate, rugose, above 

 scabrous, underneath downy. Peduncles axillary, two 

 or three-flowered. Drwpcs 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 hot 

 season in April, the seed 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 



