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many on a raked torus. Staminodes 0. Ovary 2-4-colled, cells opposite 
the petals, 2-many-ovuled ; style subulate, stigma shortly lubed. Drupe 
fleshy or fibrous, entire, or 2-4-lobcd ; stones 1-4, 1-2-seeded, with false 
paritions between the seeds. Seeds ascending ; albumen fleshy or rarely 
0 ; cotyledons flat. Distrib. About 60 species, chiefly tropical. 
Sect. I. Greivia proper. Flowers axillary or ter- 
minal. Fruit fleshy or crustaceous, usual- 
ly lobed ... M i ... 1. <?. umbellata. 
Sect. II. Microcos. Inflorescence terminal, in 
panicled cymes. Flowers involucrate. 
Drupe fleshy, entire ... ... 2. 0. panicitlata. 
Sect. III. Omphacarpus. Inflorescence terminal, 
or terminal and axillary. Flowers involu- 
crate. Drupe with a corky or fibrous rind. 
Fruit minutely tomentose : mesocarp thick, 
soft, pulpy, and with many fibres; py- 
rene single, small. 
Pyrene membranous: leaves softly to- 
mentose beneath ... ... 3. G. fihrocarpa. 
Pyrene cartilaginous : leaves sparsely 
stellate-hispid beneath ... ... 4. G. ylobulifcra. 
Fruit glabrous: mesocarp with thin pulp 
and a few fibres : pyrenes 2 or 3, bony. 
LeaveB spnr.sely-stellate pubescent be- 
neath : drupe not narrowed into a 
pseudo-stalk... ... ... 5. G. lalifolia. 
Leaves glabrescent or pubescent be- 
neath : drupe nan-owed into a long 
pseudo-stalk... ... ... 6. G. antidesmwfoUa. 
Leaves quite glabrous. 
Basal nerves bold and reaching be- 
yond the middle. 
Fruit -5 in. long, furrowed, not 
compressed ... .. 7, Q. laurifolia. 
Fruit 1*4 in. long, not furrowed, 
compressed ... ... 8. G. calophylla. 
Basal nerves slender, not reaching 
to the middle: drupe '75 in. long 9. G. Miqueliana. 
h Grewia umbellata, Roxb. Hort. Ceng. 42: Fl. Ind. ii. 501. 
A shrubby climber 10 to 20 feet long ; whole plant except tho upper sur- 
fw< of tin. leaves sparsely stHlnte-puberulons, the hark of the young 
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