42 XIV. TILIACE^. [Grewia. 



oblong; petals nearly entire. Drupe the size of a pea, slightly 2-4- 

 lobed. 



A small underslirub, common in pastures in the Doons and the sub-Him- 

 alayan tract, from the Jumna to Assam, ascending to 3000 ft., with a short, 

 thick, woody stem underground, throwing up annually a number of herbaceous 

 shoots, seldom more than a few ft. high. These, after bearing leaves, flowers, 

 and fruit, are generally burnt down by the jungle-fires of the hot season. The 

 fruit is small, but palatable. 



10. G. laevigata, Vabl ; W. & A. Prodr. 77. — Syn. G. didyma, Eoxb. 

 PI. Ind. ii. 591. Vern. Kat hhewal, hldmul, KW.P. j KakM, Oudh. 



Nearly glabrous, extremities and young leaves pubescent with scat- 

 tered stellate hairs. Leaves bifarious, on short petioles,-' ovate-lanceolate, 

 long-acuminate, serrate, base acute, 3-6 in. long, penniveined, the low- 

 est pair of nerves from the base ; transverse nerves not prominent. Stip- 

 ules caducous. Peduncles axillary, 2-3 together, slender, nearly an 

 inch long, each bearing 3 yellowish flowers on shorter bracteate pedicels. 

 Buds oblong, ribbed. Sepals linear, -J inch long or more, pilose. Petals 

 oblong, entire, obtuse, less than ^ the length of sepals. Drupe glabrous, 

 consisting of 2, rarely 3, distinct lobes, each lobe containing one or two 

 1-ceUed nuts. Specimens, in leaf only may be distinguished by the nearly 

 glabrous long-acuminate leaves with acute base ; transverse veins not 

 prominent. 



Outer Himalaya, as far as the Jumna, ascending to 3000 ft. Plentiful in the 

 Gonda and Baraitch divisions of the Oudh forests. Bengal, Behar, and Central 

 Provinces. Leaves are shed and renewed in April. Fl. June-Sept. A small tree, 

 20 ft. high, 2 ft. girth, with a short, erect trunk, and a smooth, greenish, cinere- 

 ous bark. Wood white, even-, close-grained, elastic ; no distinct' heartwood. 

 Twigs and leaves lopped for cattle-fodder in the N.W. Provinces. 



G. sepiaria, Koxb. 1. c. 589, is nearly allied to this sp., but has solitary 

 peduncles, employed to make hedges in Bengal. 



11. G. polygama, Eoxb. PL Ind. ii. 588. — Syn. G. .helideriMia, 

 WaU. 



Extremities grey-tomentose, branchlets pubescent. Leaves bifarious, on 

 short petioles, lanceolate, 2-3 in. long, sharp-serrate, penniveined, the lowest 

 pair of nerves from the base, glabrescent above, white or grey-velvety be- 

 neath. Stipules subulate, longer than petioles. Flowers polygamous, 

 mostly unisexual. Peduncles slender, axillary, 1-5 together, much longer 

 than petiole, ^-1 in, long, pedicels 2-4, shorter than peduncle. Petals half 

 the length of sepals. Male flowers : stamens about 20, inserted on an 

 elevated torus. Female flowers : anthers effete, on short filaments ; stigma 

 large, stellate. Drupe -J in. diam., indistinctly 4-lobed, shining, with a 

 few scattered hairs. Stones 4, 1 -seeded. 



Outer Himalaya, from the Chenab to Assam, ascending to 4000 ft. Salt range, 

 Panjab. Behar, the Konkan, Burma, Ceylon. North Australia. A shrub or 

 small tree, with a short trunk, bifarious spreading branches, and a small rounded 

 crown. Fl. July- Aug. ; fruit ripe, Nov. Dec. 



