4 CXXIII. ULMACE® (Rendle). [ Celtis. 
back, about 1 lin. long. Ovary and long linear-lanceolate stigmas 
(14 lin.) densely hairy, Drupe subglobose, smooth, 23 lin. long, 
slender stalk to nearly 1 in. long.—¥lanch. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 3me 
sér. x. 295 and in DC. Prodr. xvii. 173; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. 
Trop. Afr. 190; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ti. 115; 
Sim, For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 97; Almagia in Ann. R. Istit. Bot. 
Roma, viii. 119 (var. flavescens Engl. (nomen)); Fiori, Boschi e 
Piant. Legn. Eritrea, 111. C. vesiculosa, Hochst. ex Planch. in 
Ann. Sci. Nat. 3me sér. x. 295. C. australis, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. 
Abyss. ii. 257 (not of Linn.). C. Burmanni, Planch. Le. 296. C. 
Henriquesti, Engl. Notizbl. kénigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, iii. 22; Hiern 
in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 1027. Celtis sp., Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, 260. 
C. rhamnifolia, Presl in Abhand. K. Béhm. Ges. Wiss. ser. 5, iil. 
(1845) 467, nom. abort. C. (2) lactea, Sim, For. FJ. Port. E. Afr. 97. 
t. xevi B.—Celtis foliis subrotundis, ete., Burm. Rar. Afr. Plant. 
242, t. 88; Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1915, 298. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia : Gunnia and Serriro, at about 4000 ft., Schimper, 889 ! 
Semen, on mountains, Schimper, 1162! Abbena, Steudner, 1364! Shireh, Petit! 
and without precise locality, Quartin Dilion & Petit, 91! Eritrea: various 
localities, Schweinfurth and Riva, 1697! Schweinfurth, Terracciano & Pappt, 
646, 745! Fiori, Harar, Robecchi Bricchetti, 151! British East Africa : Kipayo, 
forest at 4000 ft., Dimmer, 513! Mau escarpment, Baker! Mau forests, 
Hutchins, 601! Uganda: Usoga, Scott Hiliot, 7211: Toro, 5000 ft., Dawe, 485 ! 
Budongo and Bugoma forests, Dawe, 785! 1023! Mabira forest, 4000 ft., 
Dawe, 176! : 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Cazengo; Granja de S. Luiz, Gossweiler, 4364! 
4507! 4521! 4527! 4530! 4687! 4688! 4815! 4857! Golungo Alto; 
Quibolo, Welwitsch, 6263! Sange, Welwitsch, 6264! Luinha, Welwitsch, 6283 ! 
River Coango near Cacarambola, Welwitsch, 6306 ! Queta Mountains, Welwitsch, 
6286! Bumbo; Chella Mountains, Welwitsch, 6307! 6308! Dekindt, 1049! 
Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa: M’Chopes, Sim, 5299! German 
East. Africa: Lake Victoria; Kome Islands, Holtz, 1591! British Central 
Africa: Nyasaland ; without precise locality, Buchanan, 85! Rhodesia: near 
Chirinda, at 3800 ft., Swynnerton, 1402! Victoria, Monro, 394 ! 
Also in South Africa and Arabia. 
C. (?) lactea, Sim, judging from the specimen in Kew Herbarium, apparently 
represents large-leaved sterile sucker-shoots of this species ; the leaves reach as 
much as 4 in. in length by 2} inwidth. Similar specimens have been sent by 
Welwitsch from Angola (6283) and by Dawe from Uganda (785, 1023). 
2, C. Durandii, Engl. Notizbl. kinigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, iii.22. A 
tall decidous tree ; dicecious ; branchlets sparsely whitish-pubescent 
when young, soon. becoming glabrous. Leaves shortly petioled, 
ultimately thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, 
long-acuminate, base unequal, acute to rounded, margin entire or 
sometimes with a few weak teeth above, 33-6 in. long, 14-2} or 3 in. 
wide, glabrous, 1-nerved with 3 to 5 ascending lateral nerves on either 
side, nerves prominent beneath, cross-veins prominulous; petiole 
slender, 3-6 lin. long, glabrous. Stipules lanceolate, acute, sub- 
scarious, straw-coloured, about 2 lin. long. Flowers preceding the 
leaves ; male flowers in small branched clusters at the lower leafless 
