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ft 



Oeltis.] ULMACE.E (Brown). 519 



Planch Ic. 29&.~CeItis folns Siihrotnndis, d'C.J.Bimn. Rar Afr PI 



242, t 88. 



South Africa : without locality, Zei/her, 314 ! 



Coast Regio:^ : Port Elizabeth Div. ; Krakakamma, Zti/Ztcr, 570 ! 993! Uiteu- 

 hage Div, ; near the Lead-mine, Burchell, 4498 I Queenstowu Div. ; near Queens- 

 town, Cooper, 213 ! GaJpin, 1890! Komgha Div. ; near Komgha, Schkckter, 6160 I 



Central Region: Somerset Div.; Bosch Eerg, Bardidl, 31461 by the Fish 

 River, MacOican, 1566! and without precise locality, ^oaier ! Graatf Reinet^Div. ; 

 Oude Berg, Drege ; near Graff Reinet, Bregel Boh(s, 685! Wodehouse Div.; 

 Mooi Flats, Drege, 8261 a ! Aliwal Xorth Div.; by the Orange River, Burke \ 

 Albert Div. ; near Gaatje, Brege, S2Glb! 



Kalahari Rkgion : Basxitoland ; Leribe, Mrs, Dicterhn, 193! Transva^il ; 

 bills near Aapies River, Rehmann^ 4277 ! Bereaparle, Pretoria, Miss Leendertz, 

 253 ! 330 ! north of Klerksdorp, Nelson, 250! 

 ^Eastern Rkgion : Natal ; near Durban and iu the Botanic Garden, Gerrard, 



So! 1977! Gueinzius\ Wood. 1784! eastern side of Table Mountain, Kvau$8. 

 1776, 



Known as ^Yhite Stinkwood, Camdeboo Stinkwood and Wit-gat Boom. 

 Also in Tropical Africa and Arabia. 



This plant is generally known as C. kranssiana, as Pres^Ps earlier name was over- 

 looked by PJanchon when he monographed this genus,' and has not been included 

 in the Index Kewensis. Dr. Rendle has shown (Journ. BoL 1915, 298) that 

 Rhamnus ceUifolius, Thuub. {Prodr. 44, and FL Cap. td. ScJiuUes, 196) is 

 Jihamniis prmoides, L*He'rit, Presl erroueou.^ly referred it to Celtis rhamnl folia ^ 

 which he founded on Drege, 8261. 



II. TREMA, Lour. 



F 



M 



Flowers unisexual. Perianfh-segynents usually 5, rarely 4, sub- 

 equal or the outer slightly smaller, slightly imbricate, all concave in 

 the male flower, the outer two slightly concave and the others 

 flattened in the female flower. Stamens 5, rarely 4, absent from 

 the female flower ; filaments shorter than the perianth-segments ; 

 anthers erect in bud. Ovary sessile, erect, rudimentarj" or abortive 

 iu the male, surrounded by a ring of hairs at the base in both sexes, 

 l-celle<]j with 1 pendulous^ovule ; stigmas 2, terminal, not oblique, 

 filiform or subulate, thick. Frnit small, fleshy, with a thin hardened 

 endocarp. Seed with a membranous testa, albuminous ; embryo 

 curved, cotyledons narrow. 



Trees or shrubs, without stinging hairs or spines ; leaves alternate, stipu- 

 late, often 3-nerved at the base ; stipules lateral, free, deciduous ; flowers in 

 small dense axillary cymes or clusters. , 



DisTUiB. Species about 40, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical 

 regions, only 1 in South Africa. 



1. T. bracteolata (Blume, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 58); 



a shrub or tree 8-20 ft. high ; young branches adpressed-pube- 

 rulous ; leaves alternate, stipulate : petiole 2-6 lin. long, puberulous ; 

 blade 1-5 in. long, ^-2 in. broad, varying from narrowly lanceo- 

 late to elon»?ated ovate or oblonsf-ovate, acuminate, rounded to 



