.Grema.] xxviii. tiliace^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 885 



5. G. umbellata, Hoxb. Hort. Beng. 42 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 591 ; shrubby, 

 scandent, leaves glabrescent above thinly stellate-hairy beneath elliptic 

 acaminate, cymes umbellate terminal and axillary, drupe 1-celled 1-seeded. 

 Wight Ic. t. 83 ; Wall. Gat. 1084. Q,. pedicellata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 585 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 1084 R 



Western Peninsula, Conoan and Coromandel ; Bastekn Peninsula, Malacca, 

 Penang, and Sinoapur, Maingay, Qriffith, &o.; — Distrib. Philippines, Sumatra. 



Srancheg virgate, thinly stellate-hairy. Leaves 5 by 2 in., hase rounded, S-nerved, 

 veins not promintnt, not arched ; petiole J-J in. Peduncle longer than the petiole, 

 pedicels divergent. Flower-huds narrow, oblong, pilose, striated. Sepals 4 in. Petals 

 narrow, entire, shorter than the sepals, springing from the back of a thickened claw. 

 Torus prolonged, terete, pilose. Drupe the size of a cherry, stellate-hairy, obscurely 

 lobed, purplish. 



6. G. beterotricha, Mast. : arborescent, leaves scabrous elliptic 

 acuminate crenate-serrate, peduncles opposite the leaves and terminal twice 

 the length of the petiole, buds obovoid, torus elongate sulcate. 



Western Peninsula, in Kurg, G. Thomson. 



A shrub or small tree ? Young shoots stellate-hairy, ferruginous. Leaves 4 by 2 in., 

 stellate-hairy; petiole 4 in., densely pilose, hairs simple, btipides subulate, equal to 

 the petiole, with simple hairs. Peduncles 3-flowered, stellate-hairy, pedicels shorter 

 than the flower. Bracts subulate. Flowers 1 in. diam. Sepals linear-oblong, 3-nerved. 

 Pttals lanceolate, half the length of the sepals. Torus and ovary clothed with simple 

 hairs. Anthers glabrous. Stigma clavate, 5-lobed. — The only specimens known to me 

 were gathered by collectors employed by G. Thomson, Esq., of Madras, about the 

 year 1845. 



7. G. popullfolla, Vahl; DC. Prodr. i. 511 ; shrubby, leaves 'glabrous 

 unequally crenate-serrate, base roundish or cuneate, peduncle solitary or 

 twin opposite the leaves, drupe 1-4-lobed, stones 1-4 1-2-celled ; W. & A. 

 Prodr. i. 80; Boiss. Fl. Orimt. i. 843 ; Wall. Cat. 1088 Bl CI G. betulafolia, 

 Jnss. in Ann. Mm. iv. 92, t. 2, f. 1; Roth N&e. Sp. 249. G. rigida, 

 Ham. in Wall. Cat. 1088 D. 



SiNDH, Stocks, DalseLl, &c. ; Panjab, Aitcheson, &c. ; Western Peninsula, 

 Conoan, Nilghiris, &c. — Dibtkib. AfTghatiistan, Arabia, Tropical Africa, Mauritius. 



A much and intricately branched shrub ; herbaceous portions more or less stellate- 

 hairy, ultimaiely glabrescent. Leaves 4-li ty Ii in., coriaceous, multiform, often 

 cnneate-obovate, base 3-5-nerved ; secondary nerves obscure, not arched ; petiole 4 in. 

 Peduncles longer than the petiole. Sepals 4-| in., linear-oblong. Petals white, 

 notched, shorter than the sepals. Torus short. Ovary hoary, ultimately glabrescent. 

 Drvfies yellowish, generally 2-lobed, lobes the size of a small pea, orange-red. — The 

 acid Iruit is eaten under the name of "(jingo." 



** Inflorescence axillary very rarely extrorOxiUary. 

 t Leaves hoary, at least beneath. 



8. G. ezcelsa, Vahl; DC. Prodr. i. 509; shrubby, leaves glabrous 

 above hoary beneath ovate-oblong or lanceolate acuminate serrulate, 

 peduncles 2-3 axillary much longer than the petiole, jjetals entire, drupe 

 globose pubescent. Wall. Cat. 6307 A; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 586. G. Eothii, 

 DC. Prodr. i. 509; W.&A.Prodr. i. 78. G. bicolor, Roth Nov. Sp.UO, 

 not ofJms. G. salvifolia, Rooih. Fl. Ind. ii. 687 ; Wall. Cat. 1091. 



Eastern Bengal, Assam, Sikkim, and Chittagong; Bundelkund, Mdgeworth; 

 Cobomandel, Boxhwgh. — Distkib. Tropical Africa. 



Leaves 4-5 by IJ in.,. finely serrulate, base rounded, 5-.nerved, nerves arohed_ trans- 

 verse ones prominent, tip obtuse or acute ; petiole J-J in. Stipules linear-ligulate, 



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