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Throughout the Presidency in deciduous forests. Deccas ; Dalzell S^ Gihson ; 

 Singhad hill near Poona, Woodrow\ S. M. Cottntry: Badami. Cooke \, Woodrow'. 

 GujAKAT : near Deesa, Siocks ! 



12. Grewia villosa, Willd. in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Neue Schr. v. 4 

 (1803) p. 20o. A shrub reaching 6 ft. high ; branches grey-puberulous. 

 Leaves lg-3 in., rotund-ovate, subcordate, shortly acuminate or rounded, 

 crenate-serrate, the serratures usually with a tuft of hairs at the apex, 

 5-nerved, rugoso-reticulate with numerous transverse veins, rough with 

 stellate hairs above, velvety beneath ; petioles §-1 in. long, densely 

 villous ; stipules foliaceous, ovate-oblong, acute, hairy, caducous. 

 Flowers in axillary or leaf-opposed cymes ; buds eUipsoid, pilose ; 

 peduncles very short ; pedicels 2-4 ; bracts oblong. Sepals |-| in. 

 long, lanceolate, pilose. Petals dull yellow, oblong-obovate, slightly 

 emarginate, about half the length of the sepals ; gland orbicular-oblong, 

 ciliate, a little less than half the length of the petal. Anthers glabrous. 

 Torus very short, almost 0. Ovary densely pilose ; style hairy ; stigma 

 lacerate. Drupes globose, about | in. in diara., yellowish-red ; rind 

 crustaceous, stellately hairy ; stones 4, 1-2-seeded, smooth, in a sweet 

 edible pulp. Fl. B. I. v." 1, p. 388 : Grab. Cat. p. 21 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 25 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 26 ; "Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 

 (1897) p. 130 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 184. 



Throughout the Presidency in dry districts; common in Sind. Konkan : Stocks], 

 Gibson I Deccan : Nalatwar, near Kaladgi, Graham; throughout the Deccan, 

 sparingly, Z^ff^-ei?/^' <Tifeo«. Gujarat: Porbander, Cooke I, Woodrow I Sind: Stocks, 

 510!, I)alzell,84:l, Woodrow I, Cooke I; Karachi, Tf^oodrow I —Distrib. Tropical Africa. 



The fruit is eaten. Dalzell calls it " very delicious." 



There is in Herb. Kew. a single specimen communicated by Stocks (n. 616) !, in 

 which tlie sepals Jiave a curious trifid appendage at their apex. 



13. Grewia laevigata, VaJil, Symh. v. 1 (1790) p. 34, A small 

 tree ; branches slender, terete. Leaves thin, 2-4^ by g-lf in., lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, sharply serrate-dentate, sparsely stellately hairy when 

 young, at length glabrous or nearly so, base acute, 3-nerved ; petioles 

 \ in. long, hairy ; stipules linear-lanceolate, nearly as long as the 

 petioles. Flowers in umbellate cymes ; buds ovoid or subglobose, many- 

 ribbed, pubescent ; peduncles axillary, 1-2 together, longer than the 

 petioles, sparsely hairy towards the apex ; pedicels about equalling the 

 peduncles, pilose ; bracts beneath the pedicels linear-lanceolate. Sepals 

 |-^ in. long, linear, subacute, stellately pubescent outside, furnished 

 with a small hairy gland at the base inside, 3-nerved. Petals small, 

 one third the length of the sepals, triangular, often notched : gland 

 almost as long as the petal, densely villous on the upper margin, less 

 densely on the lateral ones. Torus rather long, ribbed, the lower part 

 glabrous, the upper part villous, the villous portion shorter than the 

 glabrous part, sometimes reduced to a narrow band. Ovary pilose ; 

 stigma 5-lobed, the lobes laciniate. Drupes glabrous, 1-4-lobed ; stones 

 1-celled. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 389; Pierre, Fl. For. Cochinch. t. 161; 

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

 p. 130 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 179.— Flowers : Aug.-Oct. 

 Veen. Kaori ; Oulgollop. 



Not common. Konkan : Law !, Stocks ! ; Bombay, Captain Gehiirne ! ; Amboli 

 Ghdt, Cooke ! Deccan : near Junnar, Woodrow ! S. M. Country : Londa, Cooke ! ; 



