Grewia.] XIV. TILIACE^E. 41 



in the Poona district (Dalz. & Gibson, Bombay Fl. 26), the Salt range, 

 Garhwal, the Oudh forests (R. Thompson), and the Banda district (Edgeworth). 

 Outside India, in Upper Guinea and South Central Africa, with obliquely cor- 

 date leaves, soft tomentose on both surfaces (Oliv. FL Trop. Afr. i. 249). In 

 Dec. 1869, I found a shrub (in leaf only) wild on the dry hills of the northern 

 Aravalli near Todgarh, called Dhdmin, which I refer to this species. A month 

 later, I found what appeared to me the same plant in Banswara as a tree, 

 called Damanat. Eventually it may be right to unite G. vestita with G. asi- 

 atica. I admit that the specific differences here given are slight, and further 

 researches may possibly remove them altogether. At present, however, it seems 

 to me more convenient to keep the two species separate. 



New leaves about the end of March. Fl. Feb. March ; fruit ripens in the fol- 

 lowing months. A middle-sized tree, 25 ft. high, with short trunk 3-4 ft. in girth. 

 Bark ^ in. thick, grey or dark brown, undulating, smooth with shallow longi- 

 tudinal cracks. Sapwood whitish ; heartwood reddish brown, with many 

 minute pores, close, even-grained, strong, tough, elastic. Bark employed for 

 making rope, mucilaginous, used for refining sugar in Saharanpur district. 

 Cultivated for the small, not very succulent, pleasantly acid fruit. 



8. G. tilisefolia, Vahl. ; W. & A. Prodr. 80 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 587 j 

 Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 108. Yern. Pharsa, Oudh ; Dhamin, C.P. 



Young branches and leaves pubescent, with scattered stellate hairs. 

 Leaves on petioles J-l in. long, obliquely ovate, sometimes rhomboid, 

 acuminate, bluntly toothed or serrate, with 5 basal nerves, 3 of which 

 are prominent and penniveined, upper side at length glabrous, under side 

 more or less pubescent. Stipules broad-lanceolate, often falcate and auri- 

 culate. Peduncles axillary, numerous (3-10), 3-5-flowered ; bracts decid- 

 uous. Flower-buds cylindrical or obovoid. Sepals linear, J-J in. long, 

 pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Petals oblong, half the length of 

 sepals. Drupes globose, size of a pea, indistinctly lobed. 



Hot, dry forests throughout India, Siwalik tract from the Jumna to Assam. 

 Oudh, Behar, Bandelkhand, Central Provinces, the Konkan and the Peninsula. 

 Frequently associated with Sal. Leaves shed in March ; new foliage in April. 

 FL in April and May ; fruit ripens from June to October. 



A moderate-sized tree, 30-35 ft, high, with an erect, straight trunk, 4-5 ft. in 

 girth. Bark \ in. thick, cinereous, with dark blotches, rough with exfoliating 

 scales. Sapwood whitish ; heartwood light reddish brown, compact, close- 

 grained. Weighs 30-40 lb. per cub. ft. Easily worked, elastic, durable. Con- 

 tracts and expands much with wet and dry weather, but is valuable where 

 strength and elasticity are required. Made into shafts, shoulder-poles for 

 loads, pellet-bows, handles, masts, oars, employed in cart and carriage building. 

 From the inner bark cordage is made in Bombay. Twigs and leaves lopped 

 for fodder. Fruit eaten, of an agreeable acid flavour. 



9. G. sapida, Eoxb. FL Ind. ii. 590. Syn. G. nana, Wall. 



Pubescent or tomentose. Leaves ovate or obovate, serrate, 3-5-nerved, 

 often shallow-lobed, pale beneath ; petioles J in. long. Stipules subulate. 

 Peduncles 2-5, axillary, slender, 1 in. long, each with 2-5 flowers on 

 short, divergent, often divaricate, pedicels. Flowers yellow ; sepals linear- 



