20. TILIACEM. [1. Gbbwia. 



Hazaribagh, at Pachamba, Camp. ; Parasnath, Anderson ; Sirgnja, 

 Wood ; Eancbi (at Kuru ghat), Wood. Very rare. Fls. July-Oct. Fr. 

 Dec -Jany. 



Easily distinguished in flower, similar to some states of hirsuta in leaf 

 it may however be distinguished by the stiff not softly villous hairs on the 

 branches and fruit which break off with age leaving a stellate base, also 

 by the remarkable short medianly constricted terminally dilated cup- 

 shaped gonophore which is recognizable in fruit and after this has fallen. 

 Mr. Witt in forwarding excellent specimens from the Central Provinces 

 points out that the bare straggling habit, and especially the square stems 

 below make it very easily recognizable in the field. 



L. 2'' by 1" to 4'' by 1\" with rounded or sub-cordate base, often doubly 

 serrulate. Sec. n. 4,-5 prs. Petiole i"= Peduncles few £". Sep. §-§*. 

 Petals more than half as long bifid. Anthers with a few long hairs. Otoary 

 hirsute. 



3. G. SClerophylla, Soxb. Syn. G. scabrophylla, Eoxb. 

 Gaphni, K.; Tarse Kotap, S. 



A coarse bushy shrub about 4 ft. high with large roundish 

 or broadly elliptic leaves. Fls. large white 1-1^" diam. Frt. 

 globose §-L" diam. with 4 rugose pyrenes. 



Singbhum, on wooded slopes; Manbhum, Camp, and Watt (under G. 

 villosa). Fl. May- Aug. Fr. June-Nov. the dried fruit may be often found 

 up to Feby. of the following year along the branches below the leavea. 



Branchlets stellately tomentose, young densely shaggily tomentose. L. 

 4-6'' by 3-5" often slightly lobed, serrate or denticulate, scabrid above and 

 stellate pubescent beneath, base rounded with 3 strong and 2 weaker 

 nerves, cross nervules prominent. Petiole %-l" (in C. N.) Stipules linear 

 caducous. Peduncles and pedicels about \" or shorter, pet. obovate 

 white about Jrd as long as sepals, sometimes notched. (In Campbell's 

 No. 8712 the sepals are unusually short, only £".) 



The fruit is eaten. 



The distinction of the fruits of Grewia into fleshy and those with 

 crustaceous rind is not tenable in the field. The rind of this species only 

 becomes crustaceous or coriaceous when old or dry, the rind of hirsuta, 

 described as fleshy in. the F.B.T. is crustaceous when fresh. 



4. G. l3Bvigata, Vahl, Gara Bursu, K. \ Marang jowar, 

 S. 



A small tree with shortly pubescent slender branchlets, 

 narrow leaves green both sides usually 3-6" by 1J-2", and 

 white flowers 1-1 J" diam., succeeded by simple didymous or 

 4 lobed green fruits, drupels J-f" diam. 



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