518 TLMACE.^ (Brown). [Celtis, 



long; bracts i-f lin. long, ovate, acute; pedicels of the male 

 flowers 1-1| lin. long, of the female 4-6 lin. long, puberulous ; 

 perianth-segments 5, spreading, 1 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, concave, 

 puberulous on the back ; stamens not or scarcely exceeding the 

 perianth-segments ; disc pubescent ; ovary ovoid, much flattened in 

 young fruit, shortly 2-horned at the apex, glabrous, very rudimen- 

 tary in the male flowers ; styles when fully developed ^ in. or more 

 long, usually twice forked, very stout, densely puberulous. CeJiis 

 Soi/auxii, Wood in Trans, Roy, Soc. S. Af)\ iii. 56 ; 7iot of Engh 



Eastern Kegiox : Natal ; near Durban, Miss Franhs in Herb. Wood, 11726! 



distinguished by its larger 

 texture and the 4-5 veins 



s species is allied to C. So]/anxii, Engl., but is disti 

 I, which are more distinctly toothed, different in tex 



This 



leaves^ ^ , 



on each side of the midrib are spreading and unite with each other in bold loops, 

 whilst in the true C Soyauxii there are only 2-3 lateral veins, vrhich are all very 

 ascending and excunent at the margin near the apex. The fruit of C, Franksi^ 

 ia also glabrous, whilst that of C. Sonauxli is described as thinly pubescent, but T 

 have not seen it, as the Angolan plant quoted \inder C. Soyauxii by Engler is 

 (except ^yelwitsch, 6285) obviously a distinct species with a totally different 

 venation. 



2. C. rhamnifolia (Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 37, excl. syn.) ; varying from 

 a slirub to a tree 20-80 ft. liigli ; branches with a brown or greyish- 

 bark, thinly puberulous to densely puliescent on the young growth, be- 

 coming glabrous ; leaves alternate, petiolate, varying from glabrous to 

 densely pubescent ou both sides ; petiole 1-3 lin. long ; blade §-3| 

 in. long, i—2\ in. broad, ovate, acuminate, obliquely rounded or sub- 

 cordate at the base, serrate with small teeth, 3-nerved at the base ; 

 stipules 2 J-3 lin. long^ ^-|- lin. broad, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 

 obtuse, brown, deciduous ; flowers unisexual or hermaphrodite, soli- 

 tary or 2-4 in very shortly pedunculate cymes, axillary, pedicellate, 

 the female or hermaphrodite flowers sometimes on a distinct plant, 

 sometimes mingled with the males ; pedicels 1-9 lin. long, slender^ 

 puberulous; perianth-segments 4, about 1^ lin. long, boat-shaped, 

 subobtuse, very spreading, brown, with paler margins, thin, 

 glabrous, ciliate ; stamens 4, spreading on or within the perianth- 

 segments and shorter than or only exceeding the latter by their 

 anthers, sometimes wanting in the fertile flowers ; ovary shorter 

 than the perianth-segments, ovoid or subglobose, densely woolly; 

 stigmas 1-1^ lin. long, very stout, densely papillate-pubescent ; fruit 

 subglobose, about 2 lin. in diam., glabrous or pubescent. Burtt' 



Davy in Transv. Affric. Journ, iv. /. Ill, and v. 433. C. Iraussinna, 

 Benih. in Flora, 1845, 87, and in Krauss, FL Cap,- muh Natal. 150 ; 

 PlancJi. in Ann. Sc. Naf. Sme ser. x. 295, and in DC. Prodr, xvii. 173 ; 

 Wood, Natal PI, i. 25, t, 28 ; Burtt-Davy in Transv. Agric. Journ, v- 

 433; Sim, For. FL Cape Col 306, /. 134 {fioral analyses very in- 

 accurate), C. opegrapha, Planch, C vesiculosa, HocJist, ex Planch.y 

 and C Burmanni, Planch in Ann. Sc, Nat. Sme ser, x. 294, 295, 296. 

 Celtis eriantha, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei PJl. Bocimente, 171, and 



