8 CXXIII. ULMACEH (Rendle). [Celtis. 
152! Gurara River, Dalziel, 173! Katagum District, Dalziel, 213 ! Chari River 
Chevalier, 8275! 8469! 
Nile Land. Eritrea : Bogos, Beccari, 112! Sudan: Blue Nile, near Bunzuga, 
Muriel, 71! Kordofan; near Singukai, Muriel, 143! Duemme, Pfund, 770! 
Dinka : Dinka River, near Marial, Schweinfurth, 101! Mittu: near Mvolo, 
Schweinfurth, 2817! 2837! Uganda: Madi, Speke & Grant, 753 ! ; 
Also in Arabia. 
%. C. ilicifolia, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 160. A tall tree of willow- 
like habit with pendulous branches; branchlets slender, glabrous 
when young. Leaves distant, oblong or elongate-oblong, acute or 
long-acuminate, base cuneate, margin grossly sinuate-dentate with 
4-5 very sharp teeth on each side, lateral nerves 4-5 on each side 
ascending, prominent as are the oblique cross-veins. Racemes 
terminal in fruit, pubescent. Pedicels equal in length to or shorter 
than the oblong-oveid acute fruit. Stigmas 4-fid, equal in length 
to the fruit. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro; Tsaydo River, Hilde- 
brandt, 2608. _ 
8. C. Prantlii, Priemer ex Engl. Notizbl. kinigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, 
iii. 23. A large or small evergreen (Gossweiler) tree, sometimes 
shrubby; young branchlets with a sparse whitish pubescence, 
ultimately glabrous. Leaves shortly petioled, elliptic-oblong to 
elliptic-ovate, apex acuminate, mucronulate, base obtuse, generally 
equal, margin entire or more or less irregularly toothed above, 
rarely to near the base, 24-5 (sometimes 8) in. long, 14-3 in. wide, 
coriaceous, glabrous, upper face minutely punctulate with cystoliths, 
3-nerved to the apex, nerves generally depressed above, prominent 
beneath, connecting cross-veins prominulous; petiole 23-5 lin. 
long, glabrescent. Stipules ovate-triangular, acuminate, produced 
below the point of attachment, 2-23 lin. long, pubescent. Inflores- 
cences axillary or the lower at scale-bearing nodes; the lower 
paniculate with male flowers clustered on the branchlets and a few 
longer-stalked fertile flowers above, the upper with fewer or no 
males and 3-5 fertile (%) flowers. Sepals concave, broadly elliptie- 
oblong, 1-14 lin. long, puberulous on the back. Ovary surrounded 
at the base by a dense ring of whitish hairs, otherwise glabrate. 
Stigmas fleshy, densely papillose, broadly dilated and 2-lobed. Drupe 
green, roundish-ovoid, glabrous, dark brown when dry, about 4 lin. 
long, on a shortish pedicel, 3-4} lin. long.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. 
Welw. i. 1028; Engl. in Mildbraed, Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsch. Zentr.- 
Afr. Exped. 1907-8, ii. 179; De Wild. & Durand, Relig. Dewevr. 
213; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 501. - 
Upper Guinea. Togo: Busse, 3318! 3321! Sokode Basari, Kersting, 734! 
Southern Nigeria: Lagos, Rowland! Foster, 79! Yoruba forests, Barter, 3413 ! 
Cameroons: Molundu, Mildbraed, 4418! 4090! Fernando Po, Mann, 276! 
Lower Guinea. Annobon Island, Mildbraed, 6516 ! 6772! Angola : Libongo ; 
River Lifune, Welwitsch, 6302! Cazengo ; Cacula, Welwitsch, 6287! Granja de 
