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In the fruit both of this and of G. glohuUfera, the niesocai'p forms 

 a thick pulp with many fibres intermixed, and the solitaiy pyrene is 

 small with a soft coat. 



4. Grewia globpltfera, Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i, 391. 

 A small shrubby tree ; young branches densely covered with short 

 yellowish-brown tomentum. Leaves; thinly coriaceous, broadly elliptic, 

 sometimes slightly obovate and unequal-sided, shortly and abruptly 

 acuminate, entire, the base rounded, boldly 3-nervcd : upper surface 

 scaberulous, glabrous except the minutely tomentose midrib and nerves : 

 under surface shortly and sparsely stellate-hispid : main nerves 7 to 8 

 pairs, spreading, prominent beneath, the transverse nerves rather thin, 

 the reticulations mintite but distinct : length 4'5 to 10 in., breadth 3 to 

 6 in. ; petiole "4 to '75 in., tomentose. Panicles often on long peduncles, 

 axillary and terminal, narrow, few-flowered, covered with soft yellowish 

 stellate tomentum : length 2" 5 to 4'5 in. (of which the peduncle may be 

 more than half). Floioers '35 in. long, their pedicels much shorter. 

 Sepals oblong, spreading, curved inwards, tomentose on both surfaces, the 

 edges much incurved. Petals much shorter than the sepals, glabrous, 

 linear-lanceolate, without any distinct claw but sometimes more or less 

 thickened and hairy at the base. Torus a very shallow cup with hirsute 

 edge. Ovary ovoid, pointed, tomentose ; style as long as the ovary, 

 cylindric, glabrous. Fruit usually solitary at the apex of a branch of 

 the panicle, sub-obovoid, compressed, 1"25 in. long and "65 in. in diam. ; 

 pericarp membranous minutely tomentose, the mesocarp puljDy and 

 very fibrous ; the single pyrene much smaller, endocarp cartilaginous, 

 1-celled, 1-seeded. 



Malacca; Griffith, No. 635; Maingay, No. 245, (Kew Distrib.) ; 

 Harvey. Perak ; Scovtechini, King's Collector, Wray : at low elevations. 



In its fruit this much resembles G. fibrocarpa. The drupe, however, 

 of this is obovoid not ovoid, and the stone is larger with cartilaginous 

 not membranous endocarp. The leaves also differ in being sparsely 

 shortly hispid-pubescent instead of softly tomentose. A near ally of 

 this species is also G. latifoUa, Mast, from which this differs in its petals 

 having no distinct claw, whereas in those of G. latifoUa the claw is 

 larger than the limb. This also differs in the shape of its ovary and 

 style, and in the very different appearance of its drupe. 



5. Grewia latifolia, Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 392. A 

 shrubby tree 20 to 40 feet high : young branches I'ather stout, minutely 

 but harshly tawny-or cinereous-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, drying 

 a dark brown, broadly elliptic, shortly and abruptly sub-acuminate, 



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