Berrya.] 



XXV. TILIACE^. 



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4. BERRYA, Roxb. 



Trees. Leaves alternate ovate acuminate cordate 5- to 7-nerved. 

 Panicles large many-flowered, axillary and terminal. Calyx 

 campanulate, 3- to 5-lobed. Petals 5, spathulate, white. Stamens 

 many on a torus. Ovary 3- or 4-lobed. Fruit 3- or 4-valved, 

 each valve with a large wing. Seed hairy. Species 4, Indo- 

 Malayan. 



(i) B. Ammonilla Roxb. Hort. Beng. 42 ; Masters, in Hook. fil. 

 F.B.I, i. 383 ; Wight III. t. 34. 



Tree 25 to 30 ft. tall. Bark rough. Leaves glabrous 5 to 6 in. 

 long, 4*5 in. wide; petioles i in. long. Panicle 4 to 6 in. long. 

 Flowers '5 in. across. Calyx and pedicel tomentose. Petals 

 blunt. Fruit wings 175 in. long, -5 in. wide, oblong, rounded at 

 tip, pubescent villous at base. Hah. Lankawi Isles, Telok Sinn 

 (Hanifl). Distrib. India; Ceylon. 



5. GREWIA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, one climbing, more or less stellate pubescent. 

 Leaves entire often tri-nerved, generally pubescent or hairy, sub- 

 coriaceous. Flowers small to medium, panicled or few, axillary, 

 greenish white with conspicuous bracts. Sepals distinct. Petals 

 5, shorter than the sepals (occasionally absent). Stamens many 

 on a torus ; no staminodes. Ovary 2- to 4-celled, 2- to many- 

 ovuled; style subulate. Stigma lobed. Drupe fleshy or pulpy, 

 ovoid or pear-shaped, often yellow or red when pulpy. Pyrenes 

 I to 4, I- or 2-seeded. Species about 100, tropical Africa and Asia. 



Climber ; flowers axillary and terminal ; drupe 

 green ...... 



Trees ; flowers in terminal panicles ; drupe fleshy 

 green ....... 



Trees ; flowers terminal or axillary ; drupe pulpy 

 red or orange. 

 Leaves hairy on back. 



Leaves large, oblong round, rigid ; flowers 

 tomentose ...... 



Leaves large but thin ; flowers hairy 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate acuminate thin ; 

 flowers velvety ..... 



Leaves long lanceolate 10 by 4 in. ; bracts 

 conspicuous ..... 



Leaves glabrous or scurfy on back rigid ; 

 globose, scurfy ..... 



Leaves glabrous. 



Basal nerves not more conspicuous than the 

 others. 

 Flowers velvety leaves 6 in. long 

 Flowers tomentose; leaves much smaller . 

 Basal nerves very strongly developed . 



(i) G. umbellata 

 (2) G. paniculata 



(3) G. latifolia 

 (1) G. flbrocarpa 



(3) G. omphacarpa 



(6) G. erythrocarpa 



(7) G. globulifera 



(8) G. antidesmsefolia 



(9) G. Miqueliana 

 (10) G. florida 



