Grewia.] xxvm. TILIACE^:. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 385 



5. G-. umbellata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 42 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 591 ; shrubby, 

 scandent, leaves glabrescent above thinly stellate-hairy beneath elliptic 

 acaminate, cymes umbellate terminal and axillary, drupe 1-celled 1-seeded. 

 Wight Ic. t. 83 ; Wall. Cat. 1084. G. pedicellata, Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 585 ; 

 Wall Cat. 1084 B. 



WESTERN PENINSULA, Concan and Coromandel ; EASTERN PENINSULA, Malacca, 

 Penang, and Sincapur, Maingay, Griffith, &c. DISTRIB. Philippines, Sumatra. 



Branches virgate, thinly stellate-hairy. Leaves 5 by 2 in., base rounded, 3-nerved, 

 veins not prominent, not arched ; petiole $-\ in. Peduncle longer than the petiole, 

 pedicels divergent. Flower-buds narrow, oblong, pilose, striated. Sepals \ in. Petals 

 narrow, entire, shorter than the sepals, springing from the back of a thickened claw. 

 Torus prolonged, terete, pilose. Drupe the size of a cherry, stellate -hairy, obscurely 

 lobed, purplish. 



6. G-. heterotricha, Mast. ; arborescent, leaves scabrous elliptic 

 acuminate crenate-serrate, peduncles opposite the leaves and terminal twice 

 the length of the petiole, buds obovoid, torus elongate sulcate. 



WESTERN PENINSULA, in Kurg, G. Thomson. 



A shrub or small tree ? Young shoots stellate-hairy, ferruginous. Leaves 4 by 2 in., 

 stellate-hairy; petiole 4 i n -> densely pilose, hairs simple. Stipules subulate, equal to 

 the petiole, with simple hairs. Peduncles 3-flowered, stellate-hairy, pedicels shorter 

 than the flower. Bracts subulate. Flowers 1 in. diam. Sepals linear-oblong, 3-nerved. 

 Petals lanceolate, half the length of the sepals. Torus and ovary clothed with simple 

 hairs. Anthers glabrous. Stigma clavate, 5-lobed. The only specimens known to me 

 were gathered by collectors employed by G. Thomson, Esq., of Madras, about the 

 year 1845. 



7. G-. populifolia, VaJd ; DC. Prodr. i. 511 ; shrubby, leaves 'glabrous 

 unequally crenate-serrate, base roundish or cuneate, peduncle solitary or 

 twin opposite the leaves, drupe 1-4-lobed, stones 1-4 1-2-celled ; W. & A. 

 Prodr. i. 80 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 843 ; Wall. Cat. 1088 B ? C ? G. betulsefolia, 

 Juss. in Ann. MILS. iv. 92, t. 2, 1; Roth, Nov. Sp. 249. G. rigida, 

 Ham. in Wall. Cat. 1088 D. 



SINDH, Stocks, Dalzell, &c. ; PANJAB, Aitcheson, &c. ; WESTERN PENINSULA, 

 Concan, Nilghiris, &c. DISTRIB. Afghanistan, Arabia, Tropical Africa, Mauritius. 



A much and intricately branched shrub ; herbaceous portions more or less stellate- 

 hairy, ultima) ely glabrescent. Leaves \-\\ by \\ in., coriaceous, multiform, often 

 cuneate-obovate, base 3 5-nerved ; secondary nerves obscure, not arched ; petiole ^ in. 

 Peduncles longer than the petiole. Sepals 4~f i n -> linear-oblong. Petals white, 

 notched, shorter than the sepals. Torus short. Ovary hoary, ultimately glabrescent. 

 Drupes yellowish, generally 2-lobed, lobes the size of a small pea, orange-red. The 

 acid i'ruit is eaten under the name of "(jingo." 



** Inflorescence axillary very rarely extra-axillary. 

 f Leaves hoary, at least beneath. 



8. G. excelsa, Vahl ; DC. Prodr. i. 509; shrubby, leaves glabrous 

 above hoary beneath ovate-oblong or lanceolate acuminate serrulate, 

 peduncles 2-3 axillary much longer than the petiole, petals entire, drupe 

 globose pubescent. Wall. Cat. 6307 A ; Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 586. G. Rothii, 

 DC. Prodr. i. 509 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 78. G. bicolor, Rotk Nov. Sp. 240, 

 not of Juss. G. salvifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 587 ; Wall. Cat. 1091. 



EASTERN BENGAL, ASSAM, SIKKIM, and CHITTAOONQ; BUNDELKUND, Edgeworth ; 

 COROMANDEL, Roxburgh. DISTRIB Tropical Africa. 



Leaves 45 by 1^ in., finely serrulate, base rounded, 5-nerved, nerves arched trans- 

 verse ones prominent, tip obtuse or acute ; petiole ^-\ in. Stipules linear-ligulate, 



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