Grewia.] xxv. tiliace^. 303 



(10) G. florida Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Supp. 405. G. laurifolia 

 Masters, I.e. i. 392 ; King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. I.e. 114. 



A tree 20 to 30 ft. tall. Leaves thinly coriaceous, glabrous, 

 oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate-acuminate or acute, base rounded, 

 trinerved from base with i pair of nerves alternate from midrib 

 above, reticulations invisible 4 to 6 in. long, 1*5 to 2*5 in. wide; 

 petioles '5 to 7 in. long. Panicles terminal and axillary, 1-5 to 

 4 in. long, lax puberulous, few-flowered. Flowers '2 in. long. 

 Sepals ovate concave, tomentose on both sides. Petals shorter, 

 oblong (sometimes absent). Torus cup-shaped, rim hairy. Ovary 

 globose, sub-glabrous, 4-celled; style thick. Drupe ovoid -5 in. 

 long, glabrous, fleshy. Pyrene i- to 3-celled, usually i-seeded. 

 Hab. Open hilly jungle. Pahang Kwantu. Malacca (Griffith, 

 Maingay) ; Bukit Panchur (Derry) ; MerHmau (Cantley) . Perak, 

 Gunong Bubu Range (Kunstler). Penang Hill, BaUk Pulau; the 

 Spout; Pondok Durian (Curtis). Distrib. Sumatra. Native 

 names : Medang Salusul ; Jejuwai ; Damak Damak Ayer. 



6. TRIUMFETTA, Linn. 



Slender shrublets or herbs, more or less stellate-hairy. Leaves 

 serrate or dentate, simple or lobed. Flowers in dense axillary 

 cymes, bright yellow small. Sepals 5, oblong concave. Petals 5. 

 Stamens 5 to 35, on a fleshy-lobed glandular torus. Ovary 2- to 

 5-celled; cells 2-ovuled; style fihform. Stigma 5-toothed. Fruit 

 globose or oblong, spiny or bristly, indehiscent or 3- to 6-valved. 

 Seed I or 2 in each cell, albuminous. Species about 10, tropics 

 generally. 



Erect tall shrublets. 



Glabrescent ; fruit verv small indehiscent, spines 



short . .' (i) T. rhomboidea 



Stem villous ; leaves hairy ; fruit larger, dehiscent, 



spines long-bristly, hooked . . . . (2) T. pilosa 



Steam and leaf backs velvety hairy ; fruit tomentose, 



spines straight, bristly . * . . . (3) T. pseudo-cana 



Prostrate, leaves lobed or simple, toothed. 



Petals -2 in. long; fruit -2 in. through . . (4) T. grandidens 



Petals -4 in. long; fruit -5 in. through . (5) T. subpalmata 



(i) T. rhomboidea Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 22 ; DC. Prod. i. 

 507; Masters, I.e. i. 395; Wight Ic. t. 320; King, I.e. 116. 



A shrubby annual, glabrous or pubescent, erect, branched with 

 long internodes. Leaves very variable, often lobed, usually rhom- 

 boid, lanceolate or obovate, glabrous above or pubescent, some- 

 times tomentose beneath, often trilobed, serrate or dentate, i to 

 3 in. long, -25 to 1-5 in. wide. Flowers 4 to 6 axillary on short 

 peduncles. Sepals apiculate. Petals bright yellow, oblong. Fruit 

 •2 in. across, globose, tomentose, with short hooked glabrous or 



