112 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
In the fruit both of this and of G. globulifera, the mesocarp forms 
a thick pulp with many fibres intermixed, and the solitary pyrene is 
small with a soft coat. 
4. Grewia globctlifera, Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 391. 
A small shrubby tree ; young branches densely covered with short 
yellowish-brown tomentuin. Leaves thinly coriaceous, broadly elliptic, 
sometimes slightly obovate and unequal-sided, shortly and abruptly 
acuminate, entire, the base rounded, boldly 3-nerved : upper surface 
seaberulous, glabrous except the minutely tomentoso midrib and nerves : 
under surface shortly and sparsely stellate- hispid : main nerves 7 to 8 
pairs, spreading, prominent beneath, the transverse nerves rather thin, 
the reticulations minute but distinct: length 4'5 to 10 in., breadth 3 to 
6 in. ; petiole ’4 to '75 in., tomentose. Panicles often on long peduncles, 
axillary and terminal, narrow, few-flowered, covered with soft yellowish 
stellate tomentum : length 2'5 to 4'5 in. (of which the peduncle may be 
more than half). Flowers - 35 in. long, their pedicels much shorter. 
Sepals oblong, spreading, curved inwards, tomentose on both surfaces, the 
edges much incurved. Petals much shorter than the sepals, glabrous, 
linear- lanceolate, without any distinct claw but sometimes more or less 
thickened and hairy at the base. Torus a very shallow cup with hirsute 
edge. Ovary ovoid, pointed, tomentose ; style as long as the ovary, 
cylindric, glabrous. Fruit usually solitary at the apex of a branch of 
the panicle, sub-obovoid, compressed, P25 in. long and - 65 in. in diam. ; 
pericarp membranous minutely tomentose, the mesocarp pulpy and 
very fibrous ; the single pyrene much smaller, endocarp cartilaginous, 
1-celled, l-seeded. 
Malacca; Griffith, No. 635; Maingay, No. 245, (Kcw Distrib.) ; 
Harvey. Perak ; Scortechini, King’s Collector, Wray ; at low elevations. 
In its fruit this much resembles G . fibrocarp a. The drupe, however, 
of this is obovoid not ovoid, and the stone is larger with cartilaginous 
not membranous endocarp. The leaves also differ in being sparsely 
shortly hispid-pubescent instead of softly tomentose. A near ally of 
this species is also G. latifolia, Mast, from which this differs in its petals 
having no distinct claw, whereas in those of G. latifolia the claw is 
larger than the limb. This also differs in the shape of its ovary and 
style, and in the very different appearance of its drupe. 
5. Grewia latifolia, Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 392. A 
shrubby tree 20 to 40 feet high : young branches rather stout, minutely 
but harshly tawny-or cinereous-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, drying 
a dark brown, broadly elliptic, shortly and abruptly sub-acuminate, 
