96 xxv. tiliacejE. [Grewia 



it, by the smooth not scabrid branches, by the same difference in the 

 upper surface, and by the broader shape, of the leaves, by the red and 

 3-celled, not white and 6-celled fruit, etc. 



8. G. herbacea Welw. ms. in Herb. 



G. venusta Masters, I.e., p. 249, quoad specimen Welw., non 

 Fresen. 



A perennial herb, 1 to 4 ft. high, sometimes becoming some- 

 what shrubby, especially after the flowering and fruiting when 

 the leaves have fallen ; stems several from the woody rootstock, 

 erect, sparingly branched or simple, more or less beset with stellate 

 hairs or glabrate ; leaves suborbicular or somewhat ovate, rounded 

 or subapiculate at the apex, cordate or unequally rounded at the 

 base, irregularly dentate, thinly coriaceous, palmately 5-7-nerved, 

 venulose, scabrid above, more or less tomentose-hispid and some- 

 what tawny beneath, 2 to 6 in. long by If to 4f in. broad; petiole 

 tomentose-hispid or hispid, | to 1 in. long; stipules deciduous; 

 inflorescence axillary, compact, shorter than or scarcely as long 

 as the petiole, f to 1| in. in diam., tomentose-hispid with tawny 

 hairs ; common peduncle very short ; pedicels short or ranging up 

 to 5 in. long ; flowers numerous, yellow ; sepals spathulate, \ in. 

 long; petals narrowly elliptical, ^,in. long; stamens about equalling 

 the sepals ; ovary pilose-hispid ; style glabrous, shorter than the 

 petals, cleft at the tip ; drupe turning red, 4-lobed ; lobes 2-seeded. 



Pungo Andongo. — Abundant, especially in sandy thickets, fl. Jan. 

 (near Caghuy) and Feb., fr. April to Oct. 1857. No. 1368. 



Nearly related to 0. villosa Willd. It is the herbaceous Grewia 

 mentioned by Welwitsch in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. p. 153. 



9. G. villosa Willd. in Ges. Nat. Fr. Berl. Neue Schr. iv. p. 205 

 (1803); Masters, I.e., p. 249; non Heyne. 



Bumbo. — A rigid shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high ; branches and branchlets 

 divaricate ; leaves rigidly coriaceous, nearly orbicular, sulcate-sculptured 

 above. Sporadic in bushy places between Bumbo and Quitibe de Cima, 

 with leaves nearly deciduous but without either fl. or fr. June 1860. 

 No. 1380. This determination is doubtful. 



10. G. pubescens P. de Beauv. Fl. d'Owar. ii. p. 76, t. 108 

 (1807); Masters, I.e., p. 250. 



The following specimens apparently belong to this species : — 

 Bumbo. — An erect shrub, 4 ft. high, at the time of gathering mostly 

 without leaves, but with a few flowers and young leaves. Among 

 shrubs, half way up the Serra da Xella, at Chao da Xella, Oct. 1859. 

 No. 1387. 



Htiilla. — A shrub, 2 to 4 in. high, csespitosely branched, dwarf on 

 account of the annual burning of the country. In short and sparse 

 thickets, between Nene and Lopollo, fl. Oct. 1859. No. 1388. A shrub, 

 2 to 3 ft. high ; stems several from one rhizome ; branches patently 

 diverging ; flowers whitish. Among low shrub, in rocky places, in 

 Morro de Lopollo, fl. Jan. 1860. No. 1379. 



11. G. pilosa Lam. Encycl. Meth. iii. p. 43 (1789), excl. syn. ; 

 Masters, I.e., p. 250, pro parte. 



