Grewia hispida Harv.

Small shrub with coarsely pubescent branchlets which are eventually glabrescent with a purplish bark. Leaf-blade up to 35 x 23 mm, ovate to broadly obovate or somewhat obovate, apex rounded or rarely subacute, base rounded, margin coarsely serrate, rather harshly stellate-pubescent on both sides, slightly paler below, venation prominent below; petiole 1-2.5 mm long, coarsely pubescent; stipules up to about 3 mm long, subulate, pubescent. Inflorescences opposite the leaves, 1-3-flowered; peduncles up to about 5 mm long, tomentose; pedicels similar, up to about 5 mm long; bracts up to 7 mm long, linear to linear-lanceolate, densely appressed-pubescent outside, more sparsely so within. Sepals up to 15 x 5 mm, narrowly oblong-elliptic, apex acute and only very slightly hooded, tomentose outside, glabrous within. Petals pink or lilac, almost as long as the sepals, blade narrowly elliptic, basal nectariferous claw 2 mm long, somewhat wider than the base of the lamina, circumvillous and ledged above. Androgynophore glabrous for about 1.5 mm below, tomentose for 0.5-1 mm above. Ovary 4-lobed, densely villous or hispid; style about 7 mm long, glabrous; stigma-lobes broad. Fruit about 17 mm in diam., 4-lobed, rather fleshy, sparsely hispid.