482 cxxxvI. uRTIOACEa. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Celtis. 
ledons broad, inflexed flat or replicate, surrounding the upeurved radicle.— 
Species about 50, temperate and tropical, chiefly in the northern hemi- 
sphere. 
The species of this genus appear to me inextricable. The Asiatic, except 
C. Wightii, are founded on very variable characters. 
1. C. australis, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1043; leaves deciduous very obliquely 
ovate or ovate-lanceolate acuminate coarsely serrate green when dry, drupes 
subsolitary subglobose or broadly ovoid, putamen rugose. Brand. For. FI. 428, 
t. 50; Planch. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 169; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 1156 ; Gamble 
Man. Ind. Timb. 349. C. caucasica, Willd.; DC. L e. 170; Boiss. l. c. 
1156; Gamble l.c. C. Acata, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 211. 
The Sart RANGE and TEMPERATE ;H1MALAYA, alt. 4-8000 ft., from Marri to 
Nepal (and ? Sikkim).—Disrris. Westwards to Spain. 
A tree; branches slender, pendulous, and leaves beneath glabrous pubescent or 
subtomentose with often: fulvous hairs. Leaves 3-5 in., entire towards the 
base, glabrous above, basal nerves not produced into the tip; stipules subulate. 
Male fl. in axillary tufts or racemed on short leafless axillary branchlets, pedicels 
capillary. Sepals oblong, obtuse, margins woolly. Fem. or bisexual flowers rather 
larger than the male. Ovary ovoid, woolly at the base or all over. Drupe very 
variable in size and shape, } in. long or less; peduncle 4-2 in.—I follow Brandis 
in referring the common W. Himalayan Celtis to australis, and uniting with it €. 
caucasica, which, according to Boissier, differs only in the drupes being yellow (they 
are black in European australis) and more rugose. . 
VAR. eriocarpa ; drupe pubescent tomentose or woolly. C. eriocarpa, Dene. ™ 
Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 150, t.152; Planch. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 179; Brand. For. Fi. 
429; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 343.—Has the same range as C. australis, but is not 
common. Brandis, who doubts its being a species, refers Hamilton's C. Acata to it, 
but that has a glabrous ovary. Planchon implies that the pubescent drupe alone 
distinguishes eriocarpa. I find this to be an inconstant character. 
2. C. tetrandra, Rox). Hort. Beng. 91, and FI. Ind. ii. 63; leaves 
asin C. australis, but more persistent more entire usually brown when 
dry, flowers usually tetrandrous in shorter more robust, more often bisexual 
cymes, drupes solitary or binate globose or ovoid. Planch. in Ann. Sc. Vat. 
Ser. 3, x. 300; DC. Prodr. xvii. 179; Kurz For. Fl. 472; Dalz. 5 Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl. 337. C. trinervia, Roxb. Fl. Ind.ii. 65; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 
344; Wall. Cat. 3695. C. serotina, Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. l. c.; Wight 
Te. t. 1570; Beddome For. Man. 918, and. Sylv. Madr. t. 218. C. Roxburghit, 
Planch. in Herb. DC. l. c.; Bedd. l c.t. 312. C. glabra, var. nepalensis, 
Planch. l. c. 298. 
. LOWER OUTER lHrMALAYA, from Kumaon eastwards, ascending to 3000 ft. in 
Sikkim ; Kasra Mrs., CnuirracoNG, Burma, BEHAR, and the DECCAN PENIN: 
SULA on the Eastern and Western Ghats.—DısrtRIB. Malay Islands. al 
, Except by the trifling characters given above, I do not see how this is distin- 
guished from C. australis. The leaves are often subentire. The drupes vary " 
shape, size and length of pedicels, . 
Var. Hamiltoni ; branchlets and leaves tawny pubescent, leaves yellowish gem 
on both surfaces when dry. C. Hamiltoni, Planch, ll. c. 301 and 179.—Sikki 
Himalaya, the Khasia Mts., Chittagong and Burma. th 
v AR. mollis; leaves entire or subentire softly fulvous-tomentose benea h. 
yellowish when dry, drupes sparingly hairy. C. mollis, Wall. Cat. 7203; Plane’: 
ll. c. 297,179; Kurz l.c. 472.—Burma, Wallich. 
3. C. cinnnamomea, Lind! in Wall. Cat. 3696; leaves evergree? 
coriaceous obliquely ovate acuminate crenate-serrate 3-nerved to below the 
