Grewia. polyandria monogynia. 585 



whole plant about three, or four feet \\\^h.. 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 pe- 

 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 the drupe long-pedicelled ; 

 nuts four, one-seeded. 



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