Celtis. | CXXIII. ULMACEZ (Rendle). 7 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Uluguru ; Tununguo, 660 ft. Stuhl- 
mann, 8671! 8968! Mojaba, 1200 ft., Stuhlmann, 8703! Usambara; Muhera, 
Zimmermann, 29! Mombo, Engler, 3255! Kilosa, Holtz, 1768 ! 
“Timber whitish throughout, not durable. Native name Cabende 
(Gossweiler). 
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5. C. Tessmannii, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1915, 297. Apparently a 
deciduous tree ; shoots woody, slender, hirtellous with brown hairs, 
ultimate shoots 2 lin. or less in thickness, with internodes 6-10 lin. 
long. Leaves shortly petioled, thin and papery when dry, oblong- 
elliptic, oblique, acuminate, apex mucronate, base very unequal, 
margin entire, 2-44 in. long, ?-13 in. wide, upper face glabrous except 
on the shortly hirtellous midrib, lower face scabridulous with short 
whitish hairs and hirtellous on the nerves, with 3-5 ascending lateral 
nerves on each side, somewhat prominent beneath, cross-veins pro- 
minulous ; petiole 1 lin. or less in length, hirtellous like the stem. 
Stipules narrowly subulate, hirtellous, 2 lin. or less in length. 
Sepals of fertile flowers with very short hairs on back, about 4 lin. 
long. Ovary ovoid, densely clothed with greyish-brown hairs. 
Stigmas deeply 2-fid, with spreading branches. 
Lower Guinea. Spanish Guinea: Mabungo, 1500 ft., Tessmann, B. 25! 
in Herb. Berlin. 
Distinguished from C. Zenkeri by the almost sessile unequal-sided leaves and 
very slender stipules. 
6. C. integrifolia, Zam. Encycl. iv. 140. A large tree; branch- 
lets greyish, shortly hairy. Leaves shortly petioled, olive-green when 
dry, thinly coriaceous, ovate, acute to shortly acuminate, base 
unequally rounded to sabcordate, margin entire, 13-3} in. long, ' 
1-2 in. wide, 3-nerved, lateral nerves ascending, nerves prominent 
below, cross-veins subparailel, prominvlous, scabridulous, glabrous 
or sometimes sparsely pilosulose on the nerves beneath; petioles 
2-3 lin. long, sparsely hairy. Inflorescences axillary, reaching to 
about half the length of the leaf, or shorter. Male flowers numerous, 
shortly stalked ; fertile (%) above, few, with longer stalks. Sepals 
concave, elliptic, puberulous on back, about lin. long in the 
male, 1 lin. long in the fertile flower. Ovary bearing a dense grey 
pubescence. Stigmas linear, 2-fid, sometimes again divided. Drupe 
ovoid-globose, glabrate, 4-5 lin. long, on axillary stalks ? in. long.— 
Planch. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 3me sér. x. 308, and in DC. Prodr. XVii. 
192; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 525; Fiori, Bosche e Piant. Legn. 
Eritrea, 111. Mertensia integrifolia, Roem. & Schult. Syst. vi. 313. 
Momisia Lamarckii, Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 69. 
i ia: Richard Tol, Lelievre! Perrottet, 298! and 
BP an apse ai gilt Kunth! Roger! Dupuis! Gambia: Albuda, 
Perrottet, 711! Dogana Oualla, Prieux! Bathurst, Don! French Guinea : 
Nialla, near Djenne, Chevalier, 1136! between Daliba and Lungano, Chevalier, 
263! Ivory Coast: Mangu, Mellin, 15! Gold Coast: Salaga, Krause ! Togo 3 
Tshadu, Kersting, 12! Ssiu, Kersting, 201! 375! 376! Southern Nigeria : 
Abeokuta, Irving, 150! Northern Nigeria: Borgu, Barter, 772! Yola, Dalziel, 
