Celtis. } COXXIII. ULMACEZ (Rendle). 3 
fertile flowers with longer stalks, solitary or few in the higher axils.— 
Mertensia, H. B. et K., Nov. Gen. et Sp. ii. 30. Momisia, F. G. 
Dietr. Vollst. Lex. Gaertn. Nachtr. v. 122. Solenostigma, Endl. 
Prodr. Fl. Norfolk. 41. ; 
Species about 60, widely dispersed in temperate and tropical regions, 
especially in the northern hemisphere. 
Stigmas undivided : ; 
aves with serrate margin... ike a3 w. Ll. C. kraussiana, 
Leaves with entire margin or with a few weak teeth fe 
above ae ies ae ee <i «. 2. C0, Durandit. 
Stigmas divided : 
aves not conspicuously 3-nerved : 
Leaves oblong-elliptic or elliptic : 
Petiole 2 or more lin. long ; stipules lanceolate : 
Drupe nearly 4 in. long ... 3. C. Soyauxit. 
Drupe 3-4 lin. long “es soe ts we 4 CO. Zenkeri. 
Petiole 1 lin. or less in length ; stipules subulate 5. C. Tessmannit. 
Leaves obliquely ovate Ae ae 6. C. integrifolia. 
Leaves oblong, grossly sinuate-dentate 7. C. ilicifolia. 
Leaves conspicuously 3-nerved : 
—— broadly dilated : 
pe roundish-ovoid, 4 lin. long ; ovary glabrate : 
Central and West Africa ce cae ut 
East Africa so os esi “ee 
Drupe ellipsoid, 7 lin. long; ovary glabrate or 
sparsely puberulous ise ie cia ves 
Drupe large, ovoid-globose, 9 lin. long; ovary 
8. C. Prantlii. 
C. mauritiana. 
& 
10. C. insularis. 
densely hairy ae @ ee Of as 2 oa 
riderici. 
Stigmas linear... 1. sss see aes wes 12, CO, Broronié, 
1. C. kraussiana, Bernh. in Flora, 1845, 87. A deciduous shrub 
or tree to 70 ft. high; twigs reddish, more or less ferruginously 
pubescent when young. Leaves shortly petioled, ultimately thinly 
coriaceous, elliptic-ovate, or ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
base unequally rounded, margin serrate but often entire below the 
apex and in the lower portion, 13-3 in. long, $~14 in. wide, 3-nerved, 
lateral nerves ascending, nerves prominent below; indumentum 
varying, ferruginously pubescent especially on the veins when 
young, generally becoming glabrous except on the veins beneath, 
and scabridulous, but sometimes pubescent on both faces; petiole 
1-3 lin. long, puberulous. Stipules caducous, linear-lanceolate to 
broadly-oblanceolate, 14-3 lin. long. Male flowers in subsessile or 
stalked fascicles of 4-7 flowers at lower leafless nodes (2-4) of 
branchlets ; fertile (Q or 9) flowers 2-4 at the upper nodes, 
generally in the axil of a young leaf, intermediate inflorescences 
sometimes polygamous; pedicels densely clothed with short soft 
spreading hairs, male 14-2 lin. long, fertile to 4 lin. long. Sepals 
reddish, oblong-elliptic, subacute, concave, softly hairy on the 
