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!). Qrewia Miqukliana, Kurz, in 1'Moru for 1872, p. 398. Aiiee 
20 to 40 feet high : young branches at first very Hparsely and minutely 
lepidote, afterwards glabrous, the bark dark brown. Leaves thinly 
coriaceous, glabrous, shining, ovate- lanceolate to lanceolate, shortly 
acuminate, entire, the base cuneate, faintly 3-nerved ; both surfaces 
glabresceut soon becomiug glabrous : main lateral nerves 5 or 6 pairs, 
not prominent; length 3 to 5 in., breadth 1 to 1*75 in. ; petiole "2 to "3 
in., scaly-tomentose ; stipules oblong, blunt, oblique. Panicles axillary 
and terminal, lax, few-flowered, sparsely lepidote and puberulons, 1 to 2 
in. long. Flowers '3 in. long, their pedicels very short. Sepals ob- 
lanccolatc, acute, the edges inflexed, minutely tomentose. Petals much 
shorter than the sepals, the glabrescent linear acute limb shorter and 
narrower than the thickened rounded tomentose claw. Torus short, 
cylindric, puberulous with villous edges. Ovary globose-ovoid, tomen- 
tose, shorter than the cylindric glabrous style, 2-eellcd. Drupe pyriform, 
*75 in. long and '5 in. in diam., glabrous \ pericarp smooth, glabrous, 
shining; mesoearp fibrous with a little pulp: py rones 2, each 1-celied, 
one 1-seeded, the other barren : the endocarp bony. Inodaphnis lanceo- 
lata, Hiq. PI. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 357 ; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 89 ; 
Meisu. in DC. Prod. xv. L, 265. 
Malacca; Maingay, (Kew Distrib.) No. 244. Perak ; Scortechini, 
King's Collector, at low elevations. Diudiugs; Curtis, No. 1613. Distrib. 
Sumatra. 
There is an authentic fruiting specimen in the Calcutta Herbarium 
of Miquel's Inodaphnis laueeolata collected in Sumatra. And there is 
no doubt whatever that Kurz was right in referring the plant tojGfreivia. 
Miqurl founded his gtuius on specimens without flowers ; and, apparent- 
ly from the structure of the fruit, he suggested itfe, affinity to Inocarpus. 
Later on he suggested (Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 89) its affinity with 
tho Rosaceous genera Ohrysobalanus, Parastemon and Die men ia ( = Tri- 
chocarya). Meissuer in DC. Prod. (1. c.) briefly described the genus at 
the end of Heraandiaceae, but without indicating his opinion as to its 
proper place. Had these distinguished botanists had an opportunity 
of examining flowers, they would doubtless have referred it without 
hesitation to Qrewia. The practice (fortunately confined to a few au- 
thors) of founding genera on specimens without flowers cannot be too 
strongly condemned. 
G. Thil-mfetta, Linn. 
Herbs or uudershrubs, generally more or less covered with stellate 
hairs. Leaves serrate or dentate, simple or lobed. Flowers yellowish, 
in denBo cymes. Sepals 5, oblong, concave. Petals 5. Stamens 5-35, 
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