114 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Grewia. 



Fruit a 6-winged 3-celled capsule ; tree with rather large ovate acumi- 

 nate leaves and flowers in large terminal panicles Berrya. 



Fruit a 2-4-parted or -lobed or entire unarmed drupe containing 1 or 



several pyrenes ; usually trees or erect shrubs 1. Grew! a. 



Fruit a prickly or bristly capsule ; herbs or undershrubs 



2. Triumfetta. 



Fruit a siliquose or globose unarmed capsule ; annuals or prostrate 

 perennials 3. Corchorus. 



1. Grewia, Linn. 



Trees or erect straggling or climbing shrubs, usually stellately 

 pubescent. Leaves 3 7-ribbed. Flowers usually yellow, in axil- 

 lary, extra-axillary or terminal cymes, fascicles or panicles. 

 Sepals 5, distinct. Petals 5, usually with a gland at the base 

 within, generally shorter than the sepals, inserted round the base 

 of the torus, very rarely 0. Stamens numerous, inserted on a short 

 or elongated often glandular torus. Ovary of 2-4, 2-many-ovuled 

 cells ; style subulate ; stigma short, 2-5-lobed or laciniate. Fruit 

 1-4-pyrened, entire or 2-4-lobed ; pyrenes 1- or 2-many-seeded 

 and spuriously septate between the seeds. Seeds ascending or 

 horizontal ; albumen copious, fleshy or rarely scanty ; cotyledons 

 flat, foliaceous or fleshy. 



Inflorescence paniculate ; fruit unlobed, pyriform ; leaves ovate- or 

 obovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; trees (Subgenus i. Microcos) 



1. Microcos. 



Inflorescence not paniculate, axillary or extra-axillary (Subgenus 

 ii. Eugrewia) : 



Peduncles 1-2-flowered, capillary, extra-axilliary ; leaves roundish, 

 glabrous or subglabrous ; fruit small, 2 -par ted, usually with 4 stones 



(Series 1. POPULIFOLIAE) 2. betulaefolia. 



Peduncles many-flowered : 



Leaves 3-ribbed, ovate to lanceolate ; flowering peduncles much 

 longer than the petioles (except in G. obtusa, G. orientalis, and 

 G. Barberi) : 



Leaves glabrous or with spreading pubescence or spreading 

 tomentum : 



Fruit unlobed, depressed-globose, -6-1 in. across, velvety until 

 old ; leaves very finely regularly crenate, glabrous or sub- 

 glabrous or subscabrous (Series 2. ALYSICARPAE) : 

 Peduncles shorter than the petioles ; leaves lanceolate ; fruit 

 8-1 in. across 3. obtusa. 



