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branches dark-coloured. Leaves oblong-ovate or elliptic, sliortly and 

 bluntly acurairate, minutely serrate; base rounded, 3-nerved; upper 

 surface glabrous ; the lower pale with the transverse veins pi-ondnent 

 and straight : lateral nerves about 3 pairs : length 8 to 4*5 in., breadth 

 1"5 to 2 in., petiole "25 in. Umhels pedunculate, axillary or terminal, 

 6 to 8-flowered ; the peduncle from "6 to 1 in. long, ^Yith a whorl of 

 small lanceolate glabrous bracteoles at its apex. Floivers "75 in, long 

 when expanded ; their pedicels hirsute, unequal, fi'om "2 to "5 in. long. 

 Sepals ribbed and tomentose outside, glabrous inside, lineai'-oblong, 

 reflexed. Petals much shorter than the sepals, oblong, each springing 

 from the back of a large orbicular claw with hirsute edges. Torus long, 

 ridged, tomentose. Fruit depressed-globular, obtusely 2- to 4-angled 

 and with 2 to 4 shallow lobes, pericarp sparsely stellate-puberulous ; 

 endocarp pulpy ; pyrene 2 to 4-cellcd ; its loculi 1-seeded, the endocarp 

 bony. Wight Ic. 83 ; Wall. Cat. 1084 ; Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 i. 385. 



Malacca, Penang, Griffith, Maingay. Perak, King's Collector, Wray. 



Roxburgh has left an excellent coloured drawing of this in the 

 library of the Calcutta Herbarium, and there is no doubt about his plant. 

 I cannot agree in identifying with this G. pedicellata, Roxb , which that 

 author received from Amboyna : nor do I think that any Greioia from 

 the Peninsula of Hindustan is referable to this species. 



2. Grewia paniculata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 591. A bushy tree 15 to 

 30 feet high : young branches scurfy stellate-tomentose, ultimately 

 glabrous, their bark brown. Leaves coriaceous, cuneate-obovate to 

 elliptic ; the apex blunt, shortly and abruptly acuminate, sometimes 

 3-lobed and unequal, obscurely serrate-dentate ; the base rounded, 3- 

 nerved ; upper surface powdered with minute sparse stellate pubescence, 

 the midrib and nerves tomentose : lower surface uniformly stellate- 

 tomentose; the veins transverse, little curved, bold; lateral nerves 

 4 or 5 pairs, ascending, rather straight, prominent beneath : length 3 to 

 6 in., breadth 15 to 2' 75 in. ; petiole 25 in., tomentose : stipules glabres- 

 cent, lanceolate, often united in pairs, rather shorter than the petioles. 

 Panicles 225 to 3*5 in. long, terminal or axillai-y, rusty-tomentose ; 

 bracteoles numerous, linear, sometimes bifid : branches spreading. 

 Floivers "25 in. long, the pedicels rather shorter. Sepals spreading, 

 concave, obovate narrowed to the base, the edges thin ; tomentose on 

 the outer, pilose on the inner, surface. Petals shorter than the sepals, 

 oblong, blunt, expanded at the base into a concave claw, hirsute especial- 

 ly outside. Torus cup-shaped, short, the lip tomentose. Ovary ovoid, 

 stellate-tomentose, 4-celled, each cell with several ovules. Fruit ob- 



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