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Trees or shrubs, spiny or unarmed ; leaves alternate, stipulate, usuallv S-iiervoil 

 at the base ; stipules lateral, free, deciduous ; flowers in sixiall axillar\- cvnies or 

 clusters or .solitary, j^edicellate. -^ " 



DiSTPiB. Genera 9, species about 100, widely distributed, but chiefly iiihabitia 

 the warmer regiojis, 



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I. Celtis, — Stipules free, Floivevs in &mn\[ cyme^ or ehisters'or solitary, with 



the pedicels of the female flowers 3-9 liu. long. Cotyledons Inroad, 

 variously folded. 



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II. Trema. — Stipules free. Flou-ers in small den?^e clusters or cymes with 



pedicels ^-I liu. long. Cotyledons narrow. 



III. Chaetacme. — Stipules connate aud sheathing the buds. Male floivers in 



small cymes ; female flowera solitary ; pedicels ^-2i lin. lon^. Coty- 

 ledons unequal, the larger enveloping the i>maller. 



L CELTIS, Liiiu. 



Floivers hermaphrodite or unisexual. Perianth-segments 4-5, 

 spreading, concave, green or brownish. Stamens 4-5, opposite the 

 perianth-segments, absent from the female tlowers. Ovary superior, 

 1-celIed, rudiment^iy in the male flowers ; stigmas 2, terminal, 

 sessile, filiform or subulate, very stout, widely spreading or ascending ; 

 ovule solitary, pendulous from the top of the cell, anatropous. 

 Fruit with a fleshy exocarp and hard bony endocarp. Seed ex- 

 albuminous ; testa thin ; cotyledons broad, variously folded. 



Trees or shrubs, unarmed or spiny ; leaves alternatej stipulate ; stipules lateral, 

 free, deciduous ; flowers in ,small axillary clusters or solitary, pedicellate. 



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DxsTRiB. Species about 60, widely distributed in tropical and tem^^erate 

 regions. 



Leaves on the flowering branches 2^-5 in. long, with few 



teeth ; fruit compressed, nearly | in. long (1) Pranksias. 



Leaves on the flowering branches 1-3J in. long, with 

 numerous fine teeth ; fruit subglobose, less than ^ in. 

 in diam (2) rhamnifolia. 





1. C. Franksiffi (N. E. Br.) ; a tree 30 ft, high ; branches at first 

 puberulous, becoming glabrous, with a grey or brown bark ; leaves 



alternate, puberulous on the petiole and midrib beneath, otherwise 

 glabrous, subcoriaceous : petiole \-^ in. long ; blade 2^-7 in. long, 

 1-3 in. broad, elliptic-oblong, acute "or shortly acuminate, obliquely 

 rounded or obliquely subcuneate at the base, entire or more or 

 less toothed above \he middle, 3-nerved at the base with 4-5 

 spreading primary veins on each side of the midrib ; stipules 2-3 lin. 

 long, lanceolate, acuminate, puberulous, soon deciduous ; male and 

 hermaphrodite flowers intermingled on axillary racemes 3-4 lin. 



