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Bengal Plants, i. 284, is partly G.Bothii DC. In Engler's Jahrb. 

 xlv. 176, Burret (" Die afrikanische Arten der Gattung Grewia ") 

 suggests that G. salvifolia Heyne may be identical with G. bicolor 

 Juss. in Ann. Mus. iv. 90. Whether G. bicolor Juss. may not 

 occur in South India is a question, but the true bicolor of Western 

 Africa is amply distinct from either G. Bothii DC. or G. Damine 

 Gaertn. 



Eoxburgh most probably accepted his "excelsa" on Buchanan's 

 authority ; at all events, he did not remark on the likeness of its 

 foliage to some states of the highly variable G. rohmdifolia Juss. 

 in Ann. Mus. iv. 92, which is the " orbiculata" of Prain {Bengal 

 Plants, i. 283, sp. 227), following the Flora of British India, i. 

 386, an identification, however, which rests on a misapprehension 

 by Masters of the paper in which Willdenow refers to an unknown 

 Grewia for which Eottler had proposed the name of " orbiculata." 

 G. rotundifolia Juss. abounds in parts of Coromandel, and its 

 omission from the Flora Indica is most likely due to its having 

 been regarded in the first instance by Eoxburgh as a form of his 

 " G. arborea," and so ultimately merged in " tilicefolia." 



(5) No. 7, Fl. Ind. ii. 586, " G. asiatica Willd. 2, 1166." This 

 covers at least two distinct species, one of which — the Calcutta 

 Garden type — is apparently = G. subincequalis DC, the other 

 being the original asiatica of Linn6, a garden plant of western and 

 southern India. It is uncertain what the wild plant, or plants, 

 which Eoxburgh referred to his "asiatica,'' may have actually 

 been, but the true asiatica is not native, so far as is known, in 

 any part of India proper. The Chota Nagpur locality of Bengal 

 Plants may belong to G. subincequalis, or to a remarkable form 

 from the Western Ghats and Central India, which is provisionally 

 referred as a variation to G. tiliafolia. 



G. vestita Wallich, also G. elastica Eoyle, reduced by Masters 

 to his "asiatica," if not recognized as species, must fall under 

 G. celtidifolia Juss. ; they are altogether distinct from the Linnean 

 asiatica, and also from the Calcutta Garden plant here identified 

 with G. subincequalis DC. 



G. asiatica Linn., G. subinaqualis DC, and G. vestita Wall, 

 (with the other races which the writer would group under 

 G. celtidifolia Juss.), also G. tiliafolia Vahl and G. rotundifolia 

 Juss. are quite unknown in Africa, though G. asiatica Linn, has 

 been cultivated in the Mascarene Islands. The_ plants referred in 

 the Flora of Troin'cal Africa to G. asiatica belong to other species, 

 none of which occurs in India. 



G. celtidifolia has a wide range in the Indo-Malayan region ; 

 if we reduce to it Eoyle's G. elastica, it extends from the Indus 

 basin in the west to Siam and the Malay Islands, if not to the 

 Philippines, eastwards. 



(6) No. 8, PL Ind. ii. 587, "salvifolia E." This is = G. Bothii 

 DC, and is not = " G. salvifolia Heyne in Eotli, Nov. Sp. 239," 

 ex Masters in Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. i. 386, which is primarily in- 

 tended to apply to G. Damine Gaertn. {i. e. the true G. salvifolia 

 Heyne ex Eoth, I.e.), but the description partly covers " G. biimr- 



