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ra\, almost solitary, short-peduncled. Bracts lanceolate 

 acute. Calyx hairy as well as the peduncles and bracts, 

 bursting irregularly, often in two segments. Corolla of a 

 deep red color, six-petalled, petals spreading, lanceolate, 

 acute. Stamina numerous with long linear anthers. Ger~ 

 mina numerous; styles and stigmata the same. Berries 

 numerous, long pedicelled, oblong, hirsute with ferruginous 

 hairs, many-seeded. Seeds arranged in a double longitu- 

 dinal series. 



XXXV. TILIACE^. 



MICROCOS TOMENTOSA. Smith in Rees' CycL 



Polyandria Monogynia. 



N. O. Tiliacece. 



Foliis trinerviis subtus villosis. 



Grewia Paniculata. Roxh : Hort : Beng : p. 93. 



Native of Pulo Pinang. 



A moderate sized tree with rough bark, the branchlets 

 villous and ferruginous. Leaves alternate, short petioled, 

 elliptic oblong, broader above, with a short acumen, three- 

 nerved, dentate, serrate towards the apex, scarcely pilose 

 above, densely villous beneath, the hairs divaricate and often 

 stellate. Stipules linear, generally bifid. Panicles termi- 

 nal. Flowers for the most part in threes, involucred with 

 deciduous trifid and linear bracts. Calyx five-leaved, spread- 

 ing, leaflets oblong concave. Corolla yellow, less than the 

 calyx, petals ovate, unguiculate and without nectaries. Sta- 

 mina numerous, inserted below the germen. Germen stipitate. 

 Drupe containing a nut marked externally with five lines, 

 three-celled, three-seeded. 



