Ulmus.] OXXXVI. URTICACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 481 
A tree attaining 70 ft., with thick bark, wide-spreading branches, and the drooping 
branchlets pubescent with deciduous hairs, Leaves hard, reticulate, shortly petioled, 
base acute on one side rounded on the other; petiole very short, stout, pubescent. 
Flowers in very short racemes, which are axillary or at the leaf-scars; pedicels 
sometimes } in., slender, villous; bracts many, ciliate. Perianth campanulate, 5-cleft, 
glabrous. Samara about 1 in. long, lobes usually incurved. 
3. U. parvifolia, Jacg. Hort. Schoenb. iii. t. 262; a shrub or small 
tree, branchlets pubescent, leaves 2-3 in. shortly petioled coriaceous oblong- 
lanceolate finely serrate glabrous, nerves 14-16 pairs with axillary tufts of 
hairs, flowers appearing with the leaves, clusters androgynous, perianth 
4-fid, samara shortly stipitate elliptic or obliquely oblong, seed in the middle. 
Brand, For. Fl. 434. U. virgata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 67; Wall. Pl. As. Rar. 
iii. 67, t. 290; Cat. 3548; Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, x. (1848) 272. 
U. pumila, H. f. & T. Herb. Ind. Or. 
WESTERN TIBET; Nubra, alt. 10,000 ft., Thomson.—DistriB. China, Japan, 
Described by Brandis (but not from Indian specimens) as a slow-growing shrub 
with reddish flowers, the male and fem. mixed in scaly clusters. He gives Kumaon, 
Sikkim and Bhotan as habitats, but I have seen no other Indian specimens than 
Thomson’s Tibetan, which are not in flower or fruit. Wallich’s figure is of a Chinese 
specimen cultivated in Calcutta, and is a copy of Roxburgh’s drawing. ‘The Tibetan 
plant may be a small-leaved form of U. Wallichiana. 
2. HOLOPTELEA, Planch. 
Habit and characters of Ulmus, but leaves quite entire, perianth cleft to 
e base, and cotyledons complicated longitudinally. 
H. integrifolia, Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 9, x. 269; DC. Prodr. 
xvi. 164; Wight Ic. t. 1968; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Ft. 938. Ulmus inte- 
grifolia, Roxb. in Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1326, and Fl. Ind. ii. 68; Cor. Pl, 36, 
t. 78; Brand. For. Fl. 431; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 473; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 
4 Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 342; Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 3105 Wall. Cat. 
Outer lower ranges of the H1MALAYA, from Jamu to Oudh, ascending to 2000 ft. 
-Tom BANDA and BEHAR to TRAVANCORE, and from Peu to MARTABAN, CEYLON, 
1n the hot drier regions, —DrsTRIB. Cochin China. . . . 
, À large spreading deciduous tree; shoots pubescent. Leaves 3-6 in., coriaceous, 
elliptic or obovate-oblong, acuminate (in seedlings serrate), glabrous, or pubescent 
beneath, base unequally rounded or subcordate; nerves 5-7 pair; petiole i te 
lowers à in. diam. Sepals pubescent. Anthers hairy. Ovary long-stipita e. 
amara 1 in. long, obliquely elliptic or roundish, glabrous or pubescent; wings 
membranous or chartaceous, tip 2-fid, lobes incurved.— Planchon has three varie ies 
fes carpa with glabrous fruit deeply notched, hebecarpa with similar but pubescen 
"uit, and zeylanica with smaller obsoletely notched fruit. 
3. CELTIS, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs, evergreen or deciduous. Leaves alternate, bifarious, 
ovate, entire or serrate, triple-nerved. Flowers small, polygamous, cy ale ae 
male and androgynous cymes usually at the base of the shoots; female in 
he upper axils. Sepals 4-5, imbricate. Stamens 4—5, short, erect in bud, 
Surrounding a woolly torus. Ovary sessile; style central, arms plumose 
simple or lobed; ovule pendulous. Drupe small, ovoid or globose, endo- 
carp hard smooth or rugose. Albumen O or scanty; embryo curved, coty- 
