590 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Grewia. 



Hind, and Beng. Pan-saum. 



It is found all over Bengal, where it is often employed 

 with Tropins aspera (Soitra) to make hedges, and a re- 

 markably close, evergreen one they make. Flowering 

 time the rainy season. 



Stems scarcely to be distinguished from the numerous^ 

 bifarious, spreading branches, and branchlets, with which 

 it is enveloped ; young shoots scabrous. Leaves bifarious, 

 alternate, short petioled, obovate, serrate, three-nerved, 

 of a deep, lively green colour, at the same time scabrous 

 to the feel ; size exceedingly various, but in general small. 

 Stipules setaceous. Peduncles axillary, solitary, scabrous, 

 about half the length of the leaves, three-flowered ; pedicel 

 thickening, shorter than the peduncles. Bractes a few, 

 small, round the apex the peduncles like an involucre. 

 Cahjx, &c. as in the genus. Berries twin, each two-lobed 

 with one seed in each lobe, 



15. G. sapida. R. 



Suffruticose. Leaves oblong, sublobate, small, five- 

 nerved, scabrous. Peduncles axillary, four times longer 

 than the petioles, several together, three-Ilowered. Pe- 

 tals two-toothed. Drupes round, with from one to three 

 one-seeded nuts. 



A native of Bengal. It flowers during the hot season ; 

 the fruit is small, but palatable. 



IG. G. ohliqua. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves short-pctioled, obliquely cordate, 

 repand, minutely dentate, scabrous above, downy un- 

 derneath. Peduncles axillary, three-flowered. Drupe 

 with four, two-celled nuts. 



A native of Hindoostan. This has by far the largest 

 fruit of any Grewia I have yet met with. 



17. G. heteroclita. R. 



Leaves alternate, short-petioled, linear-oblong, cuspi- 



