1891.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 109 
many on a raised torus. Staminodes 0. Ovary 2-4-celled, cells opposite 
the petals, 2-many-ovuled ; style subulate, stigma shortly lobed. Drupe 
fleshy or fibrous, entire, or 2-4-lobed; stones 1-4, 1-2-seeded, with false 
paritions between the seeds. Seeds ascending ; albumen fleshy or rarely 
0 ; cotyledons flat. Distrib. About 60 speoies, chiefly tropical. 
Sect. I. Grewia proper. Flowers axillary or ter- 
minal. Fruit fleshy or crustaceous, usual- 
ly lobed ... ... ... 1. O. umbellata. 
Sect. II. Microcos. Inflorescence terminal, in 
panicled cymes. Flowers involucrate. 
Drupe fleshy, entire ... ... 2. G. paniculata. 
Sect. III. Oniphacarpus. 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. fibrocarpa. 
Pyrene cartilaginous : leaves sparsely 
stellate-hispid beneath ... ... 4. G. globulifera. 
Fruit glabrous : mesocarp with thin pulp 
and a few fibres : pyrenes 2 or 3, bony. 
Leaves sparsely-stellate pubescent be- 
neath : drupe not narrowed into a 
pseudo-stalk... ... ... 5. G. latifolia. 
Leaves glabrescent or pubescent be- 
neath : drupe narrowed into a long 
pseudo-stalk... ... ... 6. G. antidesmcefolia. 
Leaves quite glabrous. 
Basal nerves bold and reaching be- 
yond the middle. 
Fruit -5 in. long, furrowed, not 
compressed ... .. 7. G. 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. 
1 . Grewia, umbellata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 42: FI. Ind. ii. 591 . 
A shrubby climber 10 to 20 feet long ; whole plant except the upper sur- 
faces of the leaves sparsely stellate-puberulous, the bark of the young 
