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slightly and irregularly serrate, three nerved at base, smooth 

 on both sides. Stipules subulate, pubescent, deciduous. 

 Flowers pale-green in terminal racemose simple panicles, 

 appearing by threes, and, before expansion, covered over with 

 deciduous bractes. Rachis downy, with stellate pubescence. 

 Outside of calyx and flower-stalks closely downy. Petals 

 pale green, three times as short as the calyx. This plant 

 flowered in the stove in June. It differs in having oblong 

 or obovate leaves, from the G. Microcos of Linnaeus, which, 

 according to Burmann's tab. 74, in the Thesaurus Zeylani- 

 cus, and Sir James Edward Smith's description in Rees's 

 Cyclopaedia, has ovate lanceolate leaves with a long point. 

 The G. Microcos is also stated by Sir James Smith to have 

 reddish flowers, and is represented in the Thesaurus Zey- 

 lanicus, with loose many-flowered panicles, while the subject of 

 this article has green flowers and erect few-flowered panicled 

 racemes. Upon comparing the cultivated plant with perfect 

 native specimens in the possession of the Society, which had 

 been brought from China, by Mr. Parks, who collected 

 them upon Pena Hill, near Macao, there appears to be no 

 difference between them, except that the leaves of the wild 

 specimens are less obovate, and their margins nearly entire. 

 This is a plant of little beauty either in flower or foliage; it 

 requires the temperature of a stove, flowers in June, and is 

 propagated by cuttings without difficulty, Received by the 

 Society from Mr. John Potts, in 1822. Arsis rugosa of 

 Loureiro seems to have some affinity to this plant, but it is 

 not mentioned among the species of Grewia enumerated by 

 M. De Candolle. It may be thus defined : 



6r. affinis; foliis obovatis acuminatis cordatis rugosis utrin- 



