Celtis. ] CXXIII. ULMACE2 (Rendle). 5 
nodes of small branchlets (which end in an opening leaf-bud) and 
forming inflorescences of $ in. or less in length; pedicels about 1 lin. 
long, puberulous; fertile (? or 9) flowers 2 to 3 together in the 
axils of young branchlets, stalks at first about 1 lin. long, increasing 
to 3 or 4 lin. Sepals elliptic, about 1 lin. long. Stigmas long, 
linear, undivided; drupe ovoid, bright yellow, 3-3} lin. long, con- 
taining a black trigonous stone.—Engl. in Mildbraed, Wiss. Ergebn. 
Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. 1907-8, ii. 179. C. dioica, 8. Moore in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 204. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 4586 ! 
Lower Guinea. Congo: near Bingila, Dupuis! Angola: Cazengo; Granja 
de S. Luiz, Gossweiler, 4536! 5174! 5235! 5370! 5395! 
South Central. Irumu: Kifuku, Mildbraed, 2887! Lumengo, Mildbraed, 
2468 ! 2468a ! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usagara, J'otha, 171! Amani, to 
3000 ft., Warnecke, 235! 240! 350! Braun, 1083! Zimmermann, 851! foot of 
Nguru Mountain, Holtz, 1763! Gazaland: Chirinda, 3700-4000 ft., Swynnerton, 
108! Lower Buzi River at 100 ft., Swynnerton, 1105! 
“Var. ugandensis, Rendle. ‘Leaves narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, margin 
entire, 2-43 in. long, 3-1} in. wide.—C. ugandensis, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 
1906, 341. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Entebbe, Bagshawe, 669! Toro; Mpanga forest, 
Bagshawe, 1001! Mabira forest, Ussher, 65! Semliki Valley, 2600 ft., Dawe, 
639! Kipayo, forest at 4000 ft., Dummer, 584 ! 
The Rhodesian specimens are stated by Swynnerton to be diccious; the 
female flowers contain no trace of stamens. The single specimen from Angola 
bears fertile hermaphrodite flowers but no trace of male flowers. Of the other 
specimens only fruit is known. 
The dead wood has a peculiar fetid smell. 
3. C. Soyauxii, Engl. Notizbl. kinigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, ii. 23, 
partly. An evergreen tree 50 to 100 ft. high; branchlets ferru- 
ginously pubescent when young. Leaves shortly petioled, dark 
green, stiff and thinly coriaceous, elliptic, oblong-elliptic or elliptic- 
obovate, acuminate, mucronulate, narrowing at the unequal base, 
margin weakly serrate in the upper portion, 23-5} in. long, 14-2} in. 
wide, 1-nerved, lateral nerves 3-5 on each side, the lowest pair 
springing from. the base ascending and prominent for about half the 
length of the leaf, the others patent-ascending, nerves prominent 
below; with adpressed ferruginous hairs when young, ultimately 
glabrous ; petiole 3-4 lin. long, puberulous. Stipules lanceolate, 2 
lin. long. Inflorescences axillary on young leafy shoots, densely 
ferruginously hairy. Male flowers almost sessile, crowded in a few 
many-flowered clusters below; fertile (%) one or two above, stalked ; 
flowers pentamerous. Sepals elliptic-oblong, about 1 lin. long, 
Ovary densely ferruginously hairy. Stigmas long, linear, 2-fid, 
branches bilobed at the apex; drupe ovoid attenuated towards 
the apex, glabrous, green, with 4 narrow keels when immature, 
scarlet and succulent when ripe, with a 4-ribbed stone (Welwitsch), 
nearly 3 in. long.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 1028. C. 
