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A branching shrub; young branchlets and petioles covered with 
a fulyous velvety tomentum intermingled with tufts of longer hairs ; 
older twigs glabrous, greyish. Leaves spreading ; petiole 14-2 lin, 
long ; blade 14-25 in. long, 2-14 in. broad, elliptic-oblong, acute, 
rounded and slightly unequal at the base, somewhat irregularly 
serrulate on the margin; upper surface covered with a minute 
stellate pubescence, somewhat velvety to the touch; under 
surface with a very dense whitish-grey velvety tomentum; 
stipules 34-4 lin. long, linear-subulate, velvety. Umbels axillary, 
pedunculate, 2~3-flowered, velvety like the branchlets. Peduneles 
solitary or 2-3 together, 3-7 lin. long. Bracts similar to the 
stipules, caducous, Pedicels 3 lin. long. Buds oblong, obtuse,- 
not constricted at the middle. Sepals 5-54 lin. long, 1-14 lin. 
broad, linear-oblong, hooded at the obtuse apex, velvety outside, 
glabrous within. Petals shorter than the sepals, 3-4 lin. long, 
1}-1§ lin. broad, spathulate-obovate, emarginate at the apex, with 
a large, orbicular, hairy-margined gland on the claw. Torus 1 lin. 
ong, glabrous below, densely pubescent at the apex. Stamens 
stellate hairs on the upper side of the leaves, although forming a 
velvety surface, have distinct spaces between them, allowing the 
green surface to appear, and are not densely interwoven as in 
Gr. grisea, N. E. Br. 
Grewia cordata, N. EF. Br. Frutex ramosus, ramulis fulvo tomen- 
tosis. Folia breviter petiolata, ovato-cordata, acuta vel subobtusa, 
serrato-dentata, supra viridia, pilis fasciculatis sparsim pubescentia, 
subtus albido-velutina. Umbellae axillares, pedunculatae, 2-3-florae, 
fulvo-tomentosae. Sepala oblonga, subobtusa.  Petala sepalis 
breviora, cuneato-oblonga, apice emarginata, lutea. 
AL bush growing to a height of 10 ft. ; young branchlets covered 
with a dense and somewhat villose or shaggy fulvous tomentum, - 
older twigs glabrous, greyish. Leaves very shortly petiolate, 1}-—24 
m. long, 1-1} in. broad, ovate-cordate, acute or subobtuse, serrate- 
dentate, with small, somewhat irregular teeth ; upper surface green, 
with scattered fasciculate hairs ; under surface with a close velvety 
whitish-grey tomentum, the nerves and petiole fulvous; stipules 
3-4 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, acute, fulvous. Umbels axillary, 
solitary or in pairs, pedunculate, mostly 3-flowered, fulvous-tomen- 
tose, erect. Peduncle + in. long. Bracts similar to the stipules, 
caducous. Pedicels 24-3 lin. long. Buds ellipsoid. Sepals 4 lin. 
long, 14 lin. broad, oblong, slightly hooded at the subobtuse apex, 
yellow. Petals 24-3 lin i in. 
emarginate or obtusely bfiid at the apex, glabrous, yellow. 
Stamens glabrous, orange-yellow. Ovary villose-tomentose ; style 
paren exceeding the stamens ; stigma dilated, lobed. Fruit 
webe Hills, 3,300 ft., Mrs, Lugard, 102. 
Allied to G. monticola, Sond.,” but readily distinguished by its 
larger, cordate leaves, and different indumentum, 
