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9. Grewia MiQUKLUNA, Kui'z, ill I'lora for 1872, p. 398. A tree 

 20 to 40 feet high : young branches at first very sparsely and minutely 

 lepidote, afterwards glabrous, the bark dark brown. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, glabrous, shining, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, shortly 

 acuminate, entire, the base euneate, faintly 3-nerved ; both surfaces 

 glabrescent soon becoming glabrous : main lateral nerves 5 or 6 pairs, 

 not prominent; length 3 to 5 in., breadth 1 to 1'75 in. ; petiole '2 to '3 

 in., scaly-tomentose ; stipules oblong, blunt, oblique. Panicles axillary 

 and terminal, lax, few-flowered, sparsely lepidote and puberulous, 1 to 2 

 in, long. Floivers '3 in, long, their pedicels very short. Sepals ob- 

 lanceolate, acute, the edges inflexed, minutely tomentose. Petals much 

 shorter than the sepals, the glabrescent linear acute limb shorter and 

 narrower than the thickened rounded tomentose claw. Torus short, 

 cylindric, puberulous with villous edges. Ovary globose-ovoid, tomen- 

 tose, shorter than the cylindric glabrous style, 2-celled. Driipe pyriform, 

 •75 in. long and "5 in. in diam., glabrous : pericarp smooth, glabrous, 

 shining; mesocarp fibrous with a little pulp: pyrenes 2, each 1-celled, 

 one 1-seeded, the other barren : the endocarp honj. Inodaphnis lanceo- 

 lata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl, 357 ; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 89 ; 

 Meisn. in DC. Prod. xv. I, 265. 



Malacca ; Maingay, (Kew Distrib.) No. 244. Perak ; Scortechini, 

 King's Collector, at low elevations. Bindings; Curtis, No. 1613. Distrib. 

 Sumatra. 



There is an authentic fruiting specimen in the Calcutta Herbarium 

 of Miquel's Inodaphnis lanceolata collected in Sumatra. And there is 

 no doubt whatever that Kurz was right in referring the plant to Gretvia. 

 Miquel founded his genus on specimens without flowers ; and, apparent- 

 ly from the structure of the fi'uit, he suggested its affinity to Inocarpus. 

 Later on he suggested (Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 89) its affinity with 

 the Rosaceous genera Ghrysobalamis, Parastemon and Dieinenia ( = Tri- 

 chocarya). Meissner in DC. Prod. (1. c.) briefly described the genus at 

 the end of Heniandiaceae, but without indicating his opinion as to its 

 proper place. Had these distinguished botanists had an opportunity 

 of examining flowers, they would doubtless have referred it without 

 hesitatio!! to Gretvia. The practice (fortunately confined to a few au- 

 thors) f'f founding genera on specimens without flowers cannot be too 

 strongly condemned. 



6. Triumfetta, Linn, 



Herbs or undei'.shrubs, generally more or less covered with stellate 

 hairs. Leaves serrate or dentate, simple or lobed. Flowers yellowish, 

 in dense cymes. Sepals 5, oblong, concave. Petals 5, Stamens 5-35, 



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