200 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
more or less deeply 2—5-lobed; lobes each constituting a subdistinct 
drupe (Hugrewia');  mesocarp sometimes  fibrous-subexsuccous 
(Omphacarpus’). Seeds ascending or subhorizontal; albumen fleshy, 
copious, scanty or 0; embryo straight; radicle conical ; cotyledons 
flat, foliaceous or fleshy plano-convex, often cordate, 3-nerved at 
base.—Trees or shrubs; hairs usually stellate; leaves alternate, 
entire or serrate, often obliquely 3—7-nerved at base ; stipules rather 
large, small or 0; flowers* axillary or terminal, solitary or cymose, 
more rarely cymose-racemose ; bracts usually small, often caducous 
(All warm regions of the globe’), See p. 175. 
22. Desplatsia Bocq.—Flowers nearly of Grewia; sepals’ and 
petals 4, 5. Stamens «, inserted as in Grewia; filaments 1-adel- 
phous at base. Germen 4, 5-locular; cells o-ovulate; style in 
column ; apex stigmatiferous, minute, dilated, 4, 5-lobulate. Fruit 
large oblong or ovoid, externally coriaceous, internally fibrous- 
suberous, indehiscent. Seeds ©, immersed in fibrous pericarp, 
oblong, surrounded by a narrow membranous wing.®—A subglabrous 
shrub ;° habit and leaves of Grewia, oblong, 3-nerved at base, some- 
times slightly oblique, acuminate, serrate; stipules linear-pluri- 
partite ; flowers” in axillary and terminal cymes (Zropical Western 
Africa”). See p. 175. 
23. Duboscia Bocg."—Flowers nearly of Grewia, 4, 5-merous ; 
petals short, glandular-thickened at base, acute at apex. 
inserted as in Grewia ; anthers sub-2-dymous. 
Stamens 
Germen 4—8-locular ; 

1 € Grewia vern.”’ B. H., loc. cit., i. 799; v. 119; Ann. ii. 171; iv. 330; vii. 
* Korru., Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot., 192, t. 42 
(Spec. 2, 3. Afr. Trop. & Arch. Ind.). 
3 Rather large or moderate, purple, yellow, 
white, or greenish. 
4 Spec. ad 60. P. Bravv., Fl. Ow. et Ben., 
i. t. 30 ; ii. 102, 108.—Wranr & ARN., Prodr., 
i. 75.—Wiaur, Icon., t. 44, 45, 76, 82, 83, 89. 
—Gvizz. & PErr., F1. Sen. Tent., i.t. 20.— 
Harv. & SonD., Fl. Cap., i. 224.— A, Gray, 
Amer, Expl. Exped., Bot., i. 197.—Srrm., F1. 
Vit., 26.—Bentn., Fl, Austral., i. 269.—MrQ, 
Fl. Ind.-Bat., i, p. ii. 204,—Masr., in Oliv. Fl. 
Trop. Afr, i. 242.—Watp., Rep. i. 360; ii. 
442. 
5 In Adansonia, vii. 51.—B. H., Gen., 985, 
n. 8a. 
5 Outwardly slightly stellate-pubescent, in- 
wardly induplicate-fimbriate at base. 
7 «3, 4 inches long, 2, 3 inches wide.” 
5 « Moist gelatinous.” 
° Except inflorescence and petioles. 
10 Red, 
11 Spee. 1. D. subericarpa Bocg., loc. cil — 
Masr., in Oliv, Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 266. 
2 In Adansonia, vii. 50.—B. H., Gen., 985, 
n. 8 0, 
