Grewia. | TILIACER. 16] 
Has.—Frequent in the upper mixed forests of the Pegu Yomah and Marta- 
ban ; also Chittagong.—Fl. Nov.-Decb.—1l.—SS.—SiS. Metam. 
10. G. Asiatica, L.; Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 8386; Bedd. Syly. Madr. 
37; Brand. For. Fl. 40.—A small leaf-shedding tree or (in Burma) 
remaining a shrub hardly 2 to 4 ft. high, all softer parts softly 
pubescent ; leaves rotundate, sometimes obliquely and broadly ovate- 
rotundate, on a rather short tomentose petiole, rounded or obtuse at 
the 5-7-nerved base, acute, sometimes obsoletely lobed and almost 
blunt, unequally crenate-serrate, chartaceous, when full-grown on 
both sides rough from minute stellate hairs; flowers nearly 4 lin. 
long, on slender puberulous pedicels, forming 8-7 slender slightly 
woolly or tomentose cymes in the axils of the leaves; sepals softly 
tomentose outside, yellow inside; petals nearly 2 lin. long, reddish, 
oblong, blunt or somewhat acute, the blade twice or nearly 3 times 
longer than the foveolate, villously fringed, thickened basal scale ; 
filaments red ; ovary densely villous ; drupes the size and shape of a 
pea, or slightly 2-lobed, reddish, glabrescent, containing 1 or 2 one- 
seeded stones, 
Has.—Only the stunted shrubby variety seems to grow in Burma (probably 
Ava). 
11. G. tiliefolia, Vhl. ; Hf. Ind. F1.i. 386; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 
t. 108; Brand. For. Fl. 41.—A middling-sized tree, the young 
shoots minutely pubescent; leaves slightly oblique, more or less 
ovate or almost rotundate, on a glabrescent petiole 4 to 1 in. long, 
cordate or rounded at the 5-6-nerved base, crenate-toothed, rounded 
or blunt, chartaceous, 2-4 in. long, sparingly minutely stellate-hairy, 
glabrescent above ; flowers small, yellow, on 2-3 lin. long pubera- 
lous pedicels, by 2-3 on a 4-3 in. long peduncle and forming 
several puberulous small cymes in the axils of the leaves; sepals 3- 
3% lin. long, tawny-velvety outside; petals linear-oblong, about a 
line long, much longer than the villously fringed foveolate basal 
scale; torus glabrous; ovary tawny hirsute; drupes glabrescent, 
bluish-black, usually 2-lobed, the lobes as large as a pepper-kernel, 
the stones 3-6-celled. 
Has.—Ava. 
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