'Grewia?^ TUiacecE. 1 73 



licidally 3-valved capsule, with 2 long wings to each valve ; 

 seeds several, hairy. — Monotypic. 



B. Ammonilla,* Roxb. Hort. Beng. 42 (1814). Kal-milla, 6". 

 Chavandalai, T. 



Moon Cat. Add. Thw. Enum. 32. C. P. 1108. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 383. Wight, 111. t. 34. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 58. 



A large tree, with a straight, erect trunk and round, dense 

 head, bark smooth, pale, young parts slightly scaly ; 1. 5-8 in., 

 ovate, cordate at base, acute, entire, glabrous on both sides, 

 undulate, bright apple-green, petioles 1-2 in., stip. fin., linear- 

 setaceous ; fl. numerous, | in. diam., in large lax terminal 

 panicles, ped. nearly \ in., pubescent, buds globular ; cal. cup- 

 shaped, densely pubescent, lobes obtuse ; pet, oblong, obtuse, 

 ultimately reflexed ; stam. very numerous ; capsule surrounded 

 at base by persistent sep. and pet., | in., globose, pubescent, 

 with 6 long, horizontally spreading, twisted, blunt, papery 

 wings I in. long ; seeds 1-4 in each cell, angular, densely 

 covered with long yellow hair. 



Forests of the dry country ; common, extending rarely into the inter- 

 mediate and moist low country. Fl. March, April ; white. 



Found also in Malabar and Travancore, and in Burma and the 

 Andaman Islands ; but both Wight and Beddome say they have never 

 seen it wild in S. India. 



Wood moderately heavy, straight-grained, smooth, tough, pale reddish- 

 yellow ; one of our best timbers and easily worked. Exported to Madras, 

 where it is well known as 'Trincomalie wood' from the usual port of ship- 

 ment, and used for the construction of Masula boats. 



3. GRX:WZA,t L. 



Trees or shrubs ; infl. various, usually axillary ; sep. 5, 

 distinct ; pet. 5, smaller than sep., with a glandular scale 

 within at the base ; stam. and ov. on a raised torus or gyno- 

 phore ; stam. numerous, distinct ; ov. 2-4-celled, with 2 or 

 more ovules in each cell ; fruit indehiscent, fleshy outside, 

 usually 4-lobed, containing 4 bony stones which are often 

 divided into 2 or more false cells and i-6-seeded. — Sp. 60 ; 

 36 in Fl. B. Ind. 



* Roxburgh gives ' Ammonilla ' as the Sinhalese name, no doubt an 

 accidental alteration of Halmilla. 



t In memory of Nehemiah Grew, M.D., F.R.S., author of the 

 * Anatomy of Plants.' Died 17 12. 



