Grewia.] 



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and Corchorus cafjsidarv*, extensively cultivated in Bengal, and now one of the 

 principal articles of export from Calcutta, yielding the Jute of commerce, with 

 a round, 5-celled, many-seeded capsule. 



1. GREWIA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs ; extremities and leaves pubescent or tomentose with 

 stellate hairs. Leaves with 3-7 basal nerves, generally with lateral 

 nerves from midrib, and more or less distinct transverse veins at right 

 angles. Flowers regular, bisexual, pentamerous; inflorescence cymose. 

 Sepals distinct, deciduous, coriaceous, coloured on the inner side. 

 Petals clawed, with a gland or hollow on the inside of the thickened 

 base, sometimes wanting. Stamens indefinite, all fertile, free, inserted 

 on a raised, often glandular torus. Ovary 2-4-celled ; style subulate, 

 stigma shortly 2-4-lobed. Fruit a drupe, 1-4-stoned, entire or lobed, 

 stones 1- or more-seeded, and divided by spurious dissepiments between 

 the seeds. Embryo with flat leafy cotyledons in a fleshy or horny albumen. 



Peduncle generally one, opposite to leaf. 

 A tree ; flowers yellow, in umbellate cymes . . . 1 



A small shrub ; flowers white, 2-3, or solitary . ' . .2 

 Peduncles axillary, generally more than one. 

 Leaves oblong, ovate, or cordate. 



Drupe, when dry, with a distinct crustaceous or coriaceous 

 rind. 

 Leaves oblong ; drupes small, on long pedicels . . 3. 



Leaves orbicular, deeply cordate; drupes glomerate, nearly 

 sessile, | in. across ...... 4. 



Leaves ovate or obovate ; drupes pedunculate, nearly 1 

 in. across ........ 5, 



Drupe fleshy, wrinkled when dry, no distinct coriaceous 



rind. 



Trees ; peduncles varying in length, never as long as 



leaves. 



Tomentose; leaves obliquely ovate, stipules linear ; buds 



not ribbed, ovoid, petals yellow .... 



Tomentose ; leaves obliquely cordate, stipules lanceo- 

 late, with broad, oblique base ; buds ribbed, cylin- 

 drical or clavate, petals red and yellow 

 Pubescent or hoary ; leaves obliquely ovate -rhomboid, 

 often with cordate base ; stipules falcate, auricu- 

 late ; buds cylindrical or obovoid 

 Herbaceous undershrubs ; pedicels long slender 

 Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate. 



Leaves nearly glabrous, ovate-lanceolate 

 Leaves grey-tomentose or hoary beneath, lanceolate. 

 Flowers mostly unisexual ; leaves sharp-serrate 

 Flowers bisexual ; leaves entire or serrulate, margin 

 often undulate ....... 



G. oppositifolia. 

 G. populifolia. 



G. pilosa. 



G. villosa. 



G. scUrophylla. 



6. G, vestita. 



G. asiatica. 



10. 



11. 



12. 



G. tilicefolia. 

 G. saptda. 



G. laevigata. 



G. polygama. 



G. salvifolia. 



1. G. oppositifolia, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 583. Tab. XII Wight Ic. 

 t. 82. Vern. Pastmvanne, Afg. ; Dhamman, bJiamman, phariva, Pb. ; 

 Biul, biting, beival, bdhul, bemal, bhimal, bhengiil, N.W.P. 



Branches, leaves, and inflorescence rough with stellate hairs. Leaves 2-4 

 in. long, on short petioles, ovate, acuminate, often unequal at base, obtusely 



