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ovoid, recui'ved, witli many curved striae, pericarp membranous, minute- 

 ly and sparsely stellate- pubescent, the mesocarp fibrous witli an outer 

 layer of pulp : pyrene 1-celled, 1-seeded ; endocarp stony. Wall. Cat. 

 1097, partly ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 203 ; Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. i. 393. O. Blumei, Hassk. Tijdsclir. ISTat. Gescb. xii. 130 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 203. Microcos tomentosa, Smith in Rees, 

 Cycl. G. affinis, Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bog. 207, not of Lindl. 



Singapore ; Malacca, Maingay, No. 250. Griffith, No. 634 (Kew 

 Distrib.). Perak. Penang ; common. 



I retain for this plant the name adopted for it by Masters ia 

 Hooker's Flora of British India. But Blume's G. paniculata (Bijdi*. 

 115) was publislied seven years before Roxburgh's. I have not seen 

 any specimen of Blume's plant : but if it be the same as this, then 

 Blume's name must be substituted for that of Roxburgh as the author 

 of the specific name. If Blume's plant, however, be different from 

 Roxburgh's, then some other name must be found for the latter. That 

 the plant above described is what Roxburgh meant to call G. paniculata, 

 his coloured drawing in the Calcutta Herbarium leaves no room for 

 dotibt. 



^ 3. Grewia FinROCARPA, Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 391. A 

 tree 15 to 40 feet high ; young branches, under surfaces of leaves, 

 petioles, inflorescence and fruit densely clothed with yellowish-brown 

 stellate tomentu.m. Leaves membranous, ovate-oblong or elliptic, short- 

 ly and abruptly acuminate, minutely and obscurely serrulate, the base 

 rounded and boldly 3-nerved ; upper surface scaberulous, the midrib 

 and nerves tomentose, under surface sof tl}^ tomentose ; the 5 to 7 pairs 

 of lateral nerves and the transverse veins rather prominent beneath : 

 length 4*5 to 9 in., breadth 1'75 to 4 in., petiole '25 to "5 in., stout : 

 stipules deeply and narrowly lobed. Panicles terminal and in the upper 

 axils, crowded, '5 to 2 in. long : involucres lanceolate, curved, tomentose. 

 Flowers "25 in. long, their pedicels much shorter. Sepals obovate- 

 elliptic, very tomentose externally, the edges inflexed, sparsely pilose 

 internally. Petals minute, sub-orbicular, sometimes absent. Torus 

 short, hirsute. Ovary ovoid-globose, tomentose ; the style short, conical, 

 glabrous. Fruit soft, ovoid or obovoid, compressed, P25 in. long and 

 •75 in. in diam., the pericarp membranous and densely tomentose out- 

 side, mesocarp fibrous and pulpy; pyrene small, solitary, leathery, 1- 

 celled, 1-seeded. G. paniculata, Wall. (Cat. No. 1097 partly) not of 

 Roxb. 



Penang ; Wallich, Curtis. Malacca ; Griffith ; Maingay, No. 248, 

 (Kew Distrib.), Perak; Scortechiui, King's Collector, Wray. Common. 

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