114 TILIACEM, [Geewia. 



3-6 in long, orlDicular or broadly ovate, obliquely rounded or more or 

 less cordate at the "base, rounded acute or acuminate at the apex, and 

 often sublohate, softly tomentose on both surfaces, becoming less hairy 

 when mature and rough on the upper surface, crenate or serrate, usually 

 5-nerved at the base, nerves not arched, prominent below and conspi- 

 cuous in the young leaves ; petioles |-| in. long ; stipules lanceolate, 

 falcate, often with a broad oblique base. Peduncles axillary, 2-4, longer 

 than the potiole, 3-flowered ; pedicels clavate at the top, shorter than 

 the peduncles, spreading. Buds cylindrical or clavate, densely tomen- 

 tose, distinctly ribbed. Sepals whitish tomentose outside, reddish-brown 

 or yellow inside. Petals red and yellow, emarginate, i the length of the 

 sepals, glandular at the base. Style equalling the stamens ; stigma 

 4-lobed. Drupe indistinctly lobed, pilose, | in. in diam., containing 1-2 

 one-celled nuts. 

 <]!ommon in the forests of Dehra Dun, and on both sides of the 

 Siwalik range : also in Eohilkhand, Oudh, Merwara, and Bundelkhand. 

 DiSTEiB. : Salt range in the Punjab, Vv''. Himalaya up to 3,000 feet, C 

 and S. India and Ceylon, but often cultivated for its fruit. The tree 

 varies very much as to the size, colour, and the amount of pubescence of 

 its leaves, also in the length of the petioles. Mr. U. Kanjilal of the Forest 

 Department, who knows the tree very well, tells me that it also varies 

 greatly in habit, growing sometimes more like a shrub with a short 

 trunk and long straggling branches, whilst usually it grows to a fair- 

 sized tree, up to 35 feet, and with a trunk nearly 1 ft. in diam. In 

 cultivated specimens the leaves often become very large, and almost 

 glabrous when mature. The wood resembles that of G. elastica, and is 

 used for the same purposes. The mucilaginous juice of the bark is used 

 by sweetmeat-makers for clarifying sugar. 



10. G. tUiaefolia, Vahl Symh. Bot. i, 35 ; Uoxh. Fl. Ind. ii, 587; W. & 

 A. Prod. ^0; Royle III. 103; D. & G. Bomb. FL 26; F. B. I. i, 386 ; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 41 ; Watt E. D. 



A moderate-sized tree ; young portions hoary-tomentose, at length 

 glabrous. Leaves usually from 3-6 in. long, rhomboid-ovate, obliquely 

 cordate, rounded or acuminate at the apex, sometimes obscurely lobed, 

 unequally serrate, thinly cartilaginous, usually somewhat rough above, 

 pale and glabrescent beneath when mature ; basal nerves S-V ; petioles ^-'^ 

 in; siiputes transversely falcate and usually broadly auricled on one side. 

 Peduncles many, axillary, 3-or ^-flowered, equalling or shorter than the 

 petioles. Buds oval or oblong, ribbed. Sepals linear, pubescent out- 

 side. Petals oblong, | the length of the sepals, often without a basal 

 gland. Style 4-lobed, exceeding the stamens. Drupe globose, of the 

 size of a small pea, indistinctly 2-lobed. Doles with 2 hemispherical 

 3-celled nuts, or with one spherical 6-celled nut. 



Dehra Dun, Pilibhit, N. Oudh, Merwara, but not common ; it probably 

 also occurs on the Siwalik range, and in Bundelkhand. Distrib.: Bengal^ 

 C. & S. India, Ceylon, Burma ; also in E. Trop. Africa. The inner bark 

 is used for ropes and the fruit is eaten. This species has been much con- 

 fused with G. asiatica, from which it may be distinguished by the broad 

 falcate auricled stipules, and by its thin and usually glabrous mature 



