142 XXVIl. TILIACE.B. 



Var. le^ttopetala, Uraudis (s/>.)- Branchlets and underside of the 

 leaves varying from glabrous to densely and softly tomentose. Petals 

 without a gland or the gland reduced to a thickened base vith a few 

 hairs. 



10. Grewia asiatica, Linn. Mantiss. (1767) p. 122. A small tree ; 

 young parts stellately pubescent. Leaves 3-7 by 2.4-5 in., ovate or 

 suborbicular, acute or subacuminate, irregularly and coarsely toothed, 

 subglabrous above, hoary-tomentose beneath, obliquely cordate or 

 rounded at the base, 5-6-nerved ; petioles | in. long, thickened at the 

 top ; stipules nearly as long as the petioles, linear or lanceolate, acute. 

 Flowers slightly larger than in the preceding species, in umbellate 

 cymes ; buds obovate-oblong, ribbed, pubescent ; peduncles axillary, 

 1-4 together, slender, h-^l i^- ^oi^g' puberulous ; pedicels 2-5, shorter 

 than the peduncles ; bracts beneath the pedicels lanceolate. Sepals 

 I in. long, linear-oblong, acute, pubescent outside. Petals yellow, 

 oblong or ovate-oblong, subacute, notched, about two thirds the length 

 of the sepals ; gland about one third the length of the petal, the margin 

 white-villous. Torus ^ in. long, glabrous below, Mith a villous ring at 

 top beneath the ovary. Ovary villous. Drupe globose. 1-2-lobed, 

 1-celled, pilose. PI. B. I. v. 1, p. 386 ; Grab. Cat. p. 21 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 26 et Suppl. p. 11 ; Boiss. PI. Orient, v. 1, p. 844; Pierre, PI. Por. 

 Cochinch. t. 155 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 26 ; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 130; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 177.— 

 Plowers : Apr.-June. Vern. Phalsa. 



ExtcnsiTcly cultivated throughout the Pi'esidency ; largely in Gujarat. The fruit is 

 gratefully acid and sherbet in made from it. Konkan : Law\; Bombay, Gibnonl, 

 Captain Geburnel Deccan: truly wild in the Poena Collectorate, ex Dahcll tf- 

 Gifisoii ; hills near Poena, Woodrowl Sind : Woodrowl; Jemadar ka Landa, near 

 Karachi, Stoc/csl — Distkib. East tropical Africa. 



11. Grewia pilosa, Lam. Encyc. v. 3 (1789) p. 43. A shrub 

 or small tree. Leaves 2-3 by |-lg in., ovate-oblong, acute, irre- 

 gularly serrate, stellately hairy on both surfaces, base rounded or 

 subcordate, more or less oblique, 3-nerved ; petioles jq-^ in. long, hairy ; 

 stipules linear-subulate, hairy, longer than the petioles. Plowers in 

 short axillary umbels ; buds oblong, obtuse, slightly dilated at the base, 

 pilose, ribbed ; peduncles 1-3 together, as long as, or longer than the 

 petioles, pilose ; pedicels usually 3, about as long as the peduncles, 

 pilose ; bracts beneath the pedicels ovate. Sepals | by jL in., linear, 

 acute, pilose without, glabrous within, with a small pale pubescent 

 patch at the base inside. Petals usually bifid at the apex, rounded and 

 thickened at the base, nearly ^ ii^- ^o^S' linear-oblong, hairy near the 

 base outside, and with a few small tufts of stiff, fascicled hairs about 

 f^ of the way up ; gland oblong, about one third the length of the petal, 

 pilose at top, less densely so on the lateral margins. Anthers with a 

 few simple hairs on the back. Torus short, glabrous, 5-lobed at the 

 apex beneath the ovary, the lobes ciliate. Ovary hairy ; style pilose at 

 the base ; stigma small, bifid. Drupes stellately hairy, 1-4-lobed, 

 yellowish brown; rind crustaceous ; stones 1-4, muricate, 1-3-celled ; 

 mesocarp thick, fibrous. PI. B. I. v. 1, p. 388 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 26 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 26; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) 

 p. 130. — Plowers : Aug.-Oct. A'EEN. Khatahhati. 



