Trema. | CXXIII, ULMACE (Rendle). ll 
into a pair of spreading, fleshy, linear, stigmatose branches. Torus 
generally hairy in all the flowers. Drupe more or less fleshy, ovoid 
or subglobose, often crowned by the inrolled branches of the style; 
endocarp hard; albumen sparse, fleshy; embryo curved; cotyle- 
dons narrow, applied face to face.—Trees or high shrubs, unarmed. 
Leaves alternate, short-stalked, minutely toothed, penninerved. 
Stipules lateral, free, caducous. Inflorescences in subsessile axillary 
cymes, male and fertile generally distinct.—Sponia, Decne, Herb. 
Timor. Descr. 170. 
Species 30 or fewer, widely dispersed in tropical and subtropical regions. 
1. T. guineensis, Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, 261. A shrub or tree; 
branchlets densely and shortly hairy, sometimes silky or strigillose. 
Leaves shortly petioled, membranous, ovate-oblong, acute to acumi- 
nate or cuspidate, base generally unequally cordate, sometimes 
retuse or rounded, margin denticulate or sometimes subcrenulate 
or serrulate, generally from 24 to 4 in. long, and 1-2 in. wide, some- 
times larger to 6 in. long, or smaller, with a median nerve and generally 
4 (sometimes 5 or 6) pairs of ascending lateral nerves, the lowest 
pair springing from the base of the median nerve, prominent on the 
lower face, somewhat depressed above, scabridulous and sparsely 
hairy on the upper face, more or less densely and softly hairy below, 
especially on the nerves and veins, sometimes the older ones glabres- 
cent; petiole 2-4 lin. long, hairy like the branchlet. Stipules 
caducous, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Inflorescences 
numerous, short, axillary, dense-flowered, sometimes glomerate ; 
flowers 5-merous. Sepals greenish or reddish, persistent, broadly 
elliptic, concave, sometimes bluntly keeled, pilosulose on the back 
and margin, flatter and sometimes ovate-elliptic or ovate in female 
flowers, 1 lin. or less in length. Filaments equal in length to 
the sepals. Ovary ovoid, 1 lin. long, with a pair of horizontally 
spreading linear stigmas. Drupe globose-ovoid, about 1-1} lin. 
long ; pedicel short, rarely exceeding the drupe in length —Biittn. in 
Mitth. Afr. Gesellsch. v. 257, incl. forma strigosa, Biittn.; Durand & 
Schinz, Etudes FI. Congo, 247; De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Herb. 
Boiss, 2me sér. i. 49, Contrib. Fl. Cong. ii. 58, Relig. Dewevr. 213 
and Pl. Thonner. Congol. i. 10, ii. 298; De Wild. Miss E. Laurent, 
68 and Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, iii. 62; Th. & Hél. Durand, 
Syll. Fl. Congol. 501; S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 205; Engl. 
Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 160 and in Schlechter, Westafr. Kautsch.-Exped. 
286. 7’. affinis, Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 58; Hiern in Cat. 
Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 1029; Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 214. 
T. africana, Bl.l.c. T. bracteolata, Bl. 1.c.; Sim, For. Fi. Port. E. 
Afr. 96. 1. glomerata, Bl.l.c. T. strigosa, Bl.l.c. 7. nitens, BI. 1.c. 
Celtis guineensis, Schumach. in Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. 
160, incl. var. parvifolia; Planch. in DC, Prodr. xvii. 197, S. affines, 
Planch. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 3me sér. x. 829, and in DC. Prodr. xvii. 198 ; 
