Gretoia-I 



17. TiLlACEiE. 



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GREWIA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves entire, 1-9, often 3-nerved. Flowers 

 axillary or terminal ; inflorescence cymose in umbels or panicles. 

 Sepals 5, distinct. Petals clawed, glandular at base, sometimes want- 

 in«>*-. Stamens numerous on a raised, often glandular torus. Ovary 

 2-4-cellcd; style subulate; stigma shortly 2-4 lobed. Fruit a drupe, 

 fleshy or fibrous, entire or 2-4j-lobed; stones one or more seeded. 

 Cotyledons flat ; albumen fieshy or horny. 



Infloreseence terminal or extra axillary, umbellate. 

 Scandent. Leaves rou-h, shining. 3-nerved. 

 Drupe glabrescent of 4, separate, flattened 

 lobes 



Erect shrub. Leaves scabrous. Drupe 4- 



iobed, bristly 

 Scandent. Leaves glabrescent. Drupe large, 



depressed globose, scarcely lobed, yellow, 



pilose ... 



Scandent, Leaves thinly stellate — hairy be- 



neatb. Drupe 1-4 celled, 1 -seeded 

 Scandent. Leaves scabrous. Drupe deeply 

 4-lobed, lobes 1-seeded, reddish-yellow, 



glabrous 



A diffuse shrub. Leaves small, glabrous. 

 Drupe small, 2-lobed, orange-red ... 

 Inflorescence axillary, umbellate. 

 Leaves hoary beneath. 



Scandent or erect. Leaves lanceolate. 



Drupe globose, dark-coloured, 2-lubed... 

 Shrub. Leaves pubescent on both sides, 

 5-ner^^ed. Drupe slightly 2-lobed, grey. 

 Tree. Leaves often lobed, 3-5-nerved, 

 stipules falcate, anricled. Drupe 1 — 

 4-lobed, black ... 

 Tree. Leaves roundish, tomentose, 5- 

 nerved ; stipules subacute. Drupes 

 subturbinate, 1-2-oelled ... ... 



Leaves not hoary beneath. 



Shrub. Leaves scabrous. Drupe globose, 

 long pedicellate, hairy, rind crusta- 

 ceous, 1-4-lobed, size of a pea, stones 

 pitted ... ... ... 



Shrub. Leaves 5-nerved, rugose above, 

 villous beneath. Drupe globose, rind 

 crustaccoug, 1-4-lobed, size of a cherry, 

 red pilose 



Drupe fleshy, 2-lobed, black, didymous. 

 Tree. Leaves glabrous, laaceolate, 

 serrate 

 Drupe fleshy, 1-4-lobed. 



Climber. Leaves glabrescent. Drupe 



deeply 4-lobed, purplish 

 Tree or shrub. Leaves scabrous. 

 Drupes yellow, subglobose, ob- 

 scurely 4-lobed, size of a pea 

 Shrub. Leaves glabrescent or pilose 

 above, densely tomentose beneath. 

 Drupe glabrescent, size of a small 

 cherry, 4-lobed 



1. &, umlellifera. 



2. &. columnaris. 



3. G. orientalis, 



4. Q-. umhellata, 



5. G. heterotricha. 



6. populifoUa, 



7. salvifolia. 



8. G. Qriiculata. 



9. G, iiliaefolia. 



10. G, asiatica. 



11. G, pUosa. 



12. G. villosa, 



13. G. laevigata, 



14. G, EitcJiiei. 



15. G. abutilifolia. 



16. G. hirmtn. 



