Brownlowia.\ xxv. tiliace^e. 
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Petals entire; anthers globose or oblong. 
Sepals combined into a cup. 
Staminodes 5 ; carpels 2-valved 
Staminodes 5; carpels indehiscent, combined, 
winged ....... 
Staminodes o. 
Calyx lobes accrescent, coloured . 
Calyx lobes not accrescent. 
Fruit 3-valved winged .... 
Sepals distinct, free. 
Trees or shrubs; fruit drupaceous . 
Wiry herbs or small shrubs; fruit dry, of 3 to 5 
cocci, prickly . . . ' . 
Herbs or undershrubs; fruit a 3- to 5-celled 
capsule ....... 
Trees; capsule 3-winged of 3 to 5 cocci . 
Tree; capsule large; seed with marginal hairs 
Petals 4 entire. 
Anthers linear; fruit 4-valved, spiny; tree . 
Petals limbriate (rarely entire); anthers linear open¬ 
ing by a terminal pore, often with an apical 
awn or hair tuft; trees .... 
t. Brownlowia 
2. Pentace 
3. SCHOUTENIA 
4. Berrya 
5. Grewia 
6. Triumeetta 
7. Corchorus 
8. Columbia 
9. Trichospermum 
10. Sloanea 
11. El.iEOCARPUS 
1 . BROWNLOWIA, Roxb. 
Trees or shrubs with stellate or scaly pubescence. Leaves 
entire, 3- to 5-nerved. Flowers numerous, small, in large terminal 
or axillary panicles. Calyx bell-shaped, irregularly 3- to 5-fid. 
Petals 5, englandular, usually pink. Stamens free on a raised 
torus; staminodes 5, petaloid or linear opposite petals. Ovaries 5, 
2-ovuled; styles subulate, coherent. Carpels free, 2-ovuled, 
i-seeded. Species 9, tropical Asia. 
Leaves not peltate, lanceolate, base narrow round (1) B. lanceolata 
Leaves not peltate broad elliptic, base broad 
cordate. (2) B. kleinhovioidea 
Leaves peltate hairy beneath . . . (3) B, Scortechinii 
Leaves sub-peltate, glabrous very large; panicles 
large . (4) B. macrophylla 
Leaves scaly beneath, ovate-cordate . . . (5) B. Riedelii 
(1) B. lanceolata Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Supp , ii. 57; 
Masters, in Hook. fit. F.B.I. i. 381; King, l.c. 99. 
A shrub 4 to 6 ft. tall. Young parts scaly. Leaves coriaceous 
lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate acuminate, base blunt, above 
glabrous, dark green, beneath minutely yellowish white-scaly; 
nerves 6 to 8 pairs, not prominent, 4*5 tb 6 in. long, 1*5 to 175 in. 
wide; petioles ‘25 to -4 in. long. Panicles axillary or terminal, 
1 to 3 in. long, few-flowered. Calyx *2 in. long, scaly, lobes lanceo¬ 
late. Petals longer, oblong blunt, base shortly clawed, pink. 
Ovary 3- to 5-lobed, pubescent. Fruit carpels distinct, globose, 
compressed on inner surface, scaly and pubescent, -5 in. across. 
Seed 1. Hab. Common in tidal rivers often in dense masses; 
Singapore, Gelang. Johor, Tebrau River. Malacca (Griffith); 
