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all antherit'erous or some without authsrs ; auther-ceUs 2, parallel, cou- 

 tiguous, dehiscing longitudinally or hy an apical pore, rarely divergent 

 and confluent at top. Ovary free, sessile ahove the torus, 2-10-celled ; 

 ovules attached to the inner angle of the cells, solitary or twin, 

 |)endulous from the top or ascending from the base, sometimes few 

 inserted at the middle of the cell, sometimes numerous, 2-many-seriate, 

 auatropous or subanatropous ; raphe ventral or lateral ; style entire or 

 divided at the apex into as many lobes or stigmas as there are cells to the 

 ovary, rarely divided to the base, or the stigmas large, sessile, distinct or 

 united into one. Truit 2-10- or 1-celled by suppression, or many-celled 

 by false septa, dry, drupaceous oi' baccate and indehiscent, or separating 

 into cocci, sometimes loculicidally (rarely septicidally) dehiscent. Seeds 

 solitary or numerous in each cell, ascending, pendulous or transverse, 

 exarillate ; testa usually coriaceous or crustaeeous, sometimes pilose ; 

 albumen fleshy, copious or thin, rarely ; embryo straight, rarely curved; 

 cotyledons ovate or cordate-orbicular, foliaceous or slightly fleshy; 

 radicle next the hilum, short or rarely longer than the cotyledons. — 

 DiSTBTB. Most abundant in the tropics of both hemispheres, less in the 

 temperate, wanting in the arctic zones ; genera 40 ; species al)out 350. 



Anthers opening by slits. 



Petals usually foveolate or glandular at the base ; stamens 

 springing from the ajjex of a raised torus. 



Fruit without prickles 1. Grewia. 



Fruit prickly. 



Trees ; "fruit large 2. Eiunocaupus, 



Herbs or iindershrubs ; fruit small 3. Triumfetta. 



Petals not foveolate or glandular at the base ; stamens 



springing from a conti-acted torus 4. Corcuorus. 



Anthers opening by a terminal pore. 



Petals sepaloid 5. EL.EOCAurus. 



1. GREWIA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, usually stellately pubescent. Leaves 3-7-nerved. 

 ^'lowers usually yello\'\', in axillary, terminal or extra-axillary cymes or 

 panicles. Sepals '•>, distinct. Petals 5, ustially with a gland at the base 

 within, generally shorter than the sepals, inserted round the base of the 

 torus, very rarely 0. Stamens numerous, inserted on a turbinate often 

 glandular torus. Ovary 2-4-celled ; ovules 2-many in each cell ; style 

 subulate ; stigma short, 2-5-lobed or laciniate. Drupes 1-4-pyrened, 

 entire or 2-4-lobed : pyreues 1- or 2-many-seeded and spuriously sep- 

 tate between the seeds. Seeds ascending or horizontal ; albumen copious, 

 tleshy or rarely scanty, or almost ; cotyledons flat, foliaceous 'or fleshy. — 

 DiSTRiB. Warmer regions of the Old World ; species about 60. 



I niloreseencc terminal and axillaiy (sometimes extra-axillary) ; 

 flowers in umbellate cymes. 



Erect shrub or small tree 1. G. fvluutuaris. 



Scandeiit shrubs. 



Torus long; drupes deeply lobecl, purplish 2. G. uinhellijcra. 



Torus short; drupes yellow, wrinkled u. G. orientals. 



Torus long; drupes obscurely lobed, purple 4. G. umbellata. 



Inflorescence leaf-opposed and axillary (sometimes extra-axil- 

 lary). 



Leaves scabrous with stellate hairs 5. G. heterotrlcha. 



Leaves glabrous or nearly so , 6. G, vopulifolia. 



