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1. G. umhellata. 



2. 0. paniculata. 



many on a raised torus. Staminodes 0. Ovary 2-4-cened, cells opposite 

 the petals, 2-niany-ovuled ; style subulate, stigma shortly lobed. Drupe 

 fleshy or fibrous, entire, or 2-4^-lobed ; stones 1-4, 1-2-seeded, with false 

 pai'itions between the seeds. Seeds ascending ; albumen fleshy or rarely 

 ; cotyledons flat. Distrib. About GO species, chiefly tropical. 

 Sect. I. Grewia proper. Floivers axillary or ter- 

 minal. Fruit fleshy or crustaceous, usual- 

 ly lobed 

 Sect. II. Microcos. Inflorescence terminal, in 

 panicled cymes. Flowers involucrate. 

 Drupe fleshy, entire 

 Sect. III. Omphacarptis. Inflorescence terminal, 

 or terminal and axillary. Flowers involu- 

 crate. Drupe with a corky or fibrous rind. 

 Fruit minutely tomenfcose: mesocarp thick, 

 soft, pulpy, and with many fibres ; py- 

 rene single, small. 



Pyrene membranous: leaves softly to- 



mentose beneath 

 Pyrene cartilaginous : leaves sj)arsely 

 stellate-hispid beneath ... 

 Fruit glabrous : mesocarp with thin pulp 

 and a few fibres : pyrenes 2 or 3, bony. 

 Leaves sparsely-stellate pubescent be- 

 neath : drupe not narrowed into a 

 pseudo-stalk... 

 Leaves glabrescent or pubescent be- 

 neath : di"upe narrowed into a long 

 pseudo-stalk... ... 



Leaves quite glabrous. 



Basal nerves bold and reaching be- 

 yond the middle. 



Fruit '5 in. long, furrowed, not 



compressed 

 Fruit 1*4 in. long, not furrowed, 

 compressed 

 Basal nerves .slender, not reaching 

 to the middle: drupe "75 in. long 



4. 



G. fihrocarpa. 

 G. glohulifera. 



5. G. hit if alia. 



6. G. antidesmaifoUa. 



7. G. lanrifoUa. 



8. G. calophylla. 



9. G. MiqueUana. 



1. Grrwta umbellata, Roxb. Hort. Bong. 42 : Fl. Ind. ii. 691. 

 A shrubby climber 10 to 20 feet long ; whole plant except the npjier sur- 

 faces of the loaves sparsoly stollatc-pubcruloTis, the bark of the j'oung 



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