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crowded together in each umbel ; bracts of the pedicels oblong-lanceolate. 

 Sepals I in. long, linear, acute, hairy. Petals white, § in. long, oblong, 

 acute ; gland oblong, rounded at the apex, half as long as the petal, 

 margins villous. Torus | in. long, softly villous. Style glabrous; 

 stigma 5-lobed. Drupes purpHsh, fleshy, | in. across, deeply 2-4-lobed, 

 subglabrous ; stones 2-- 4, 1 -seeded. Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 26. Grewia 

 Bitchiei, Mast, in Yl B. I. v. 1, p. 389 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 26 • 

 AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 130.— Flowers : Dec-Jan'. 

 KoNKAN : Stocks !, Bitchie, 991 ! Kanaka : Yellapur and Gairsoppa, Talbot, 64 ! 



3. Grewia orientalis, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 964. A sarmentose 

 shrub ; young parts fulvous-pubescent. Leaves 2-5 by f-2| in., ovate- 

 elliptic, acuminate, crenate-serrate, glabrous, except on the nerves 

 beneath which are clothed with appressed, simple hairs, rounded or 

 subacute and more or less oblique at the base, 3-nerved; petioles g-jiu. 

 long, rufous-pubescent. Flowers about l|-2 in. across, in small axil- 

 lary and terminal peduncled umbellate cymes shoi-ter than the leaves ; 

 buds ovoid-oblong, ribbed, pubescent ; pedicels shorter than the flowers, 

 each with a small deciduous lanceolate bract at the base. Sepals |— 1 

 in. long, linear-oblong, acute, fulvous-pubesceut outside, rugose within, 

 with inflexed margins. Petals one third the length of the sepals, ovate- 

 oblong, entire or very sliglitly emarginate ; gland exceeding half the 

 petal, the upper margin thick, very densely hairy. Torus 5-angled, 

 villous except at the insertion of the glands, the villous portion usually 

 longer than the glabrous part, with 5 villous teeth at the base. Ovary 

 pilose ; stigma 5-lobed. Drupes yellow, wrinkled, the size of a small 

 cherry, hairy : stones 4, 1-2-celled. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 384 ; Dalz, & 

 Gibs. p. 26; Trim. FL Ceyl. v. 1, p. 176; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 25; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 130.— Flowers : June. 



On the Southern Ghats, Dalzell ^- Gibson. — Distrib, Ceylon. 



4. Grewia umbellata, Roxh. HoH. Beng. (1814) p. 42. Slirubby, 

 scandent ; branches virgate, thiuly stellate-hairy. Leaves 4-5 by l;^-2 

 in., oblong, acuminate, serrulate, glabrous on both sides, reticulately 

 veined, rounded at the base, 3-nerved ; petioles \ in. long. Flowers in 

 axillary, extra-axillary and terminal umbellate cymes ; buds narrow- 

 oblong, striate ; peduncles longer than the petioles, 1 or more together ; 

 pedicels many, from the top of the peduncle ; bracts below the pedicels 

 oblong-lanceolate. Sepals g-| in. long, pubescent outside. Petals 

 lanceolate, entire, about half as long as the sepals ; gland about half as 

 long as the petal, pilose at top, the lateral margins ciliate. Torus ratiier 

 long, villous. Drupe the size of a cherry, stellately hairy, slightly 

 WTinkled, obscurely lobed, purplish, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Fl. B. I. v. 1, 

 p. 385. 



Masters, in Fl. B, I. 1. c. gives the Konkan as a habitat of this plant — I have seen 

 no specimens from the Konkan, — Distkib. Philippines, Sumatra, I'enang, Singapore. 



5. Grewia heterotricha, Mast, in Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 385. A scandent 

 shrub ; branches striate ; young parts clothed uith ferruginous stellate 

 hairs. Leaves 2-4 by 1-2 in., ovate-oblong, acute, scabrous above with 

 short stellate hairs, more densely stellately haiij beneath, finely serrate, 

 base rounded or cordate, oblique ; petioles | in. long, densely stellately 



